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TAILS Ol! LONDON AIR RAIDS F'
Zeppelin's First Visit Man 31., 1915—
Last Aix Raid May 19, 1918–e
Many Civilians Killed in Rajas,
in Canada we used to rend vague
Aiiieial statements of ethe air raids.
We used to hear that Zeppelins or
ir'airplanes appeared over the outlying
districts of London, and that a certain
number of people had been killed and
injured. Ocasionally the veil was
lifted to' some extent, as, for instance,
when we were supplied with details
of the slaughter of the innocents in
the Poplar School infant class. But
we were told little of the places
Which had been damaged, of people
trodden to death in the panic
seromble for shelter, or the terror
inspired by hours of bombing.
Now that the veil has been lifted,
it can be said that at most in four
of the fourteen chief raids was any
damage of military importance done.
One of these occasions was when a
bomb fell on part of the arsenal at
Woolwich, 'in October, .1915, doing
damage to stores and machine gun
factory. Another was in June, 1917,
when the Liverpool street station was
bombed, and the third in July, of the
same year, when the Central Tele-
graph Office in the G.P.O. suffered
considerable loss to plant, though the
system was not much interfered with.
In none of these cases was the mili-
tary advantage of any considerable
importance. In one case, at Shorn-
cliffe, a bomb fell on a Canadian
camp, killing fourteen.
First Bombs Fall.
s, The first of the raids took place on
May 31st, 1915, when a Zeppelin ap-
peared over London and six persons
were killed.
On September 8th, 1915, occurred
the most destructive of all the air
raids from the standpoint of money
s. Fires were started and pee-
ierty otherwise destroyed to the
value of $10,000,000 in the one night.
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ONE OF THE
MYSTERIES OF VAR
LOSS OF 3 BRITISI•I CRUISERS
AT BATTLE OF JUTLAND
Theory That Vessels Were Sunk by
Assembling Cordite in Turrets in
Defiance of the Regulations.
One of the great mysteries of the
war is the loss of Admiral Beatty's
three great battle cruisers—the Queen
Mary,. the Indefatigable and the In-
vincible—in the battle of Jutland.
Two of these magnificent fighting
ships were lost early in the engage-
ment within a few minutes of each
other, the third being sunk later in
the day. All three sank with great
rapidity after being hit, the sugges-
tion being that their magazines were
exploded by a lucky enemy shot.
Various conflicting theories have
been advanced as to what occurred;
but the Pall Mall Gazette professes
to have obtained from "a source of
The night before three Zeppelins had unimpeachable authority" an expiana-
appeared, and one of the bombs drop-
tion of the true facts. The corres-
ped missed the Tower of London by 4( pendent also throws some new light
five hundred yards, '"`Ten persons l on the battle off the Falkland Islands
were killed and forty-three injured and on other naval matters which
in that raid. On the night of the have hitherto remained obscure.
8th many city warehouses were des- The sinking of the Queen Mary,
troyed, including one silk warehouse, tt�ith • 1,550 lives; the Indefatigable,
where alone the damage was $100,- . with 962 lives, and the, Invincible,
with 968 lives,
000. An effort was apparently made off Jutland, on May
to get the Bank of England and the 31, 1916, has never been explained.
Stock Exchange, one bomb falling The Admiralty has remained silent,
within two hundred yards of the first and it was a noticeable feature of
mentioned building.,, Great excite- Lord Jellicoe's and Sir David Beatty's
ment was occasioned by this raid, as despatches that no account was given
for the first time the Zepps were of the end of these three mighty bat -
clearly seen. tie cruisers.
the nearest thing to an historic Various Theories.
loss, next to the bomb which lit near What actually occurred will never
the ancient St. Margaret's Church, be known with absolute certainty,
close to the Abbey, was caused by but the charge of the critics of the
a bomb which fell in Lincoln's Inn Admiralty has always been that the I
on October 13th, 1915. It fell near flash tight doors of the ammunition
the Inigo Jones Chapel, and smashed hoists- were at fault, and that explo-
some seventeenth century windows. sions in the turrets caused by enemy
shells communicated with the maga-
zines and resulted in the destruction
of the ships.
That is one theory, but it is no more
than a theory, and there is strong
presumptive evidence in favor of an-
other. Explosions preceded the sink-
ing of each cruiser—that is
known—
but
of D,ayIight Raids.
The first of the daylight raids took
place on June 13th, 1917, fifteen
planes coming over in sunny noonday.
On this occasion the poor districts of
the east end and south side were
visited, and 104 people were killed
and 423 injured. Of those killed and
injured, 120 were children.
On July 7th, 1917, when the G.P.O.
was hit, 34 were killed and 139 in-
jured.
It was on September 4th, 1917,
that Cleopatra's Needle on the Em-
bankment was chipped. In this raid'
eleven persons were killed and sixty-
two injured.
On September 24th, 1917, the Huns
nearly got the House of Parliament,
a bomb dropping into the Thames
alongside and throwing up a column
of water sixty feet high. In this raid
1W g.
u� were killed and seventy in -
ed.
Thirteen airships visited England
on October 19th, 1917, and so well
had the anti-aircraft defences been
perfected that of the five which ap-
proached London only one entered the
London area. In this raid twenty-
seven people were killed and fifty-
three injured.
On a misty night with clouds half
veiling the moon, thirty airplanes
visited London on October 31st, 1917.
Three penetrated to London, killing
eight persons and injuring twenty-
one.
January 28th, 1918 saw one of the
most heartrending of all the scenes
perpetrated by aircraft. Altogether
fifty-eight people were killed and 173
injured.
On February 16th, and 17th twenty-
seven were killed and seventeen i-
jured.
• A raid on March 7th, 1918, killed
twenty and injured forty-five. •
The last raid took place on May
19th, 1918. Of the twenty or thirty
enemy airplanes which took part, ten
were destroyed. Forty-four people
,were killed and 170 inliurod.
The scars of the raids are hard to
find to -day, even when you know
Where to. look for them, but their
memory is ineffaceable from the
Minds of the people., who endured
them. They failed. hi their purpose
to. intimidate; they have been far
from breeding, pacifism in England,
there is very high authority for War Longer Than Expected.
the belief that the explosions "did not When criticizing much of the new
take place in the magazines. construction of the early months of
Again it must be pointed -out that war—and nearly all the criticisms
no unchallengeable evidence exists,
but the second theory of the cause of
these grave disasters is that, in de-
fiance of all rules: and regulations,
but animated by intense zeal and ani-
mosity and anxiety, the officers res-
ponsible, in preparing for immediate
action, had assembled in the turrets
the cordite which should have come
up the hoists as required for serving
the guns. When the enemy were en -
THE TOMB OF A U-BOAT
gaged the turrets were struck and the ---
cordite fired. Patches of Oil Rising All Around
Showed Grave of Submarine.
Among the experts who accept the
theory that the magazines exploded
there are those who are convinced that
the magazines were reached owing to
the inadequacy of the protective deck,
This involvesanothercharge, but in
common fairness it must be recalled
that the Queen Mary, Indefatigable
and Invincible, which were designed
under Lord Fisher, were the first
battle cruisers in the world, just as
the Dreadnought was the first dread-
nought, Speed was the main edsen-
tial, and they were not designed to
fight in the line at all.
Speed the Main Thing.
Lord Fisher summed up his require-
ments in the words, "Speed and heavy
guns." No cruiser had ever carried
12 -inch guns before. At Coronel the
Germans overwhelmed our cruisers
because they had more modern, homo-
geneous batteries. The Good' Hope
had two 9 -inch and 6 -inch guns, but
in the early stages of the battle one
of the 9.2's was knocked out, and the
position was hopeless. The Scharn-
horst and Gneisenau had 8% -inch
guns. Big guns and speed were ob-
tained at the cost of, among other
things, heavy deck armor.
There were other considerations
that weighed in favor of the design.
The highest naval authorities con-
templated a certain maximum range
of action, but the enemy had provided
for a gun elevation giving a much
longer range. A remarkable and lit-
tle known fact is that a shell from
the Emden struck the bridge of the
Sydney at a range of sixteen miles.
The shot was a lucky one, but it con-
veyed a lesson.
The value of gun power and speed
was demonstrated at the Falkland
Islands. By virtue of the speed of
his ships Admiral Sturdee reached his
destination in time, and by virtue of
his 12m. guns he put down the enemy
fleet. There was no element of luck
in Admiral Sturdee's achievement.
Some day Lord Fisher may be able
to tell how he knew of on 'Spee's
plans; how, on the principle that it
is useless to send a tortoise to catch
a hare, he told the Admiral to take
the Invincible and the Inflexible; and
how, with a fine knowledge of the
British sailor's superstitions, he ac-
celerated the Admiral's departure in
order to avoid sailing on Friday,
November 13.
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have regard to the construction of
that period—it must be borne in mind
that the War Cabinet issued instruc-
tions to the Admiralty in the belief.
that the war would, or could, not last
more than a period very much less
than was generally suggested at the
time. Rapidity of construction was
imperative, and desgns were adapted
and modified in order that this might
be secured. It was only when it be-
came apparent that the first estimates
of the duration of the war were wrong
that new construction entered upon
another phase, and a policy was
adopted which has borne wonderful
fruit in the shape of the British navy's ,
overwhelming might. The German
Admiralty knew more than people at
home, and the future was destitute
of a
vestige •e of hope.
The monitors, or certain classes of
these useful vessels, have been des-
cribed in scathing terms, but these
"gun platforms" have done magnifi-
cent work. As a high naval authority
remarked, "They were designed for
bombarding the Belgian coast and not
for pleasure trips." The submarine
classes, run from E to R, and there is
no shadow of doubt that the vessels
of many of them—big 'vessels built
for offence—would have caused terri-
ble havoc among the enemy's capital
I The Inventor's First Weapon Was a
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Tin Pea -Shooter.
When the late Sir Hiram Steven
I Maxim was a boy, opposite his par-
i nets' house in Brooklyn lived a phy-
i sician who had a pretty servant -girl.
I It was the custom of the policeman
on the beat to pay. his respects to
Ithis maid in the evening. Young
Maxim spent some. time at an up-
stairs window with a tin pea -shooter
in his hand blowing peas at the po-
liceman. Finally he became so
adept at the gentle, azt that lie could
hit the wall of the ' doctor's house
above the heads of the lovers and
cause the peas to drop on them. The
policeman blamed a small boy who
I
lived next door,and threatened ed to
visit him with the vengeance of the
'law, and did his best to catch him;
but he never found the youth in pos-
session of the incriminating shooter
or the ammunition on him.
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Wonderful!
An Irish housekeeper was showing
to some visitors the family portraits
in the picture gallery.
"That officer there in uniform," she '
said, "was the great -great-grandfa-
ther of the present owner of the pro-
perty, He was as brave as a lion,
but one of the most unfortunate of
men. He never fought a battle in
which he did not have a leg or arm
carried away."
Then she added proudly:.
"He took part in twenty-four en
gagements. .
Surprise and a cheery call brought
me on deck, For part of the "dark
hours" throughout which the
drifter had maintained her never•
ceasing patrol of a stretch of sea
where, according to the skipper,
"you never know what'll happen," I
had kept a "watch below," well rock-
ed but quite cosy, If you stayed
awake on drifter patrol while danger
threatened you would never sleep at
all. For danger is your constant
shipmate in one form or another.
"Would you like to see the grave
of a U-boat?". asked the skipper.
"Certainly."
"Right 0!" The wheel spun around
and the drifter, turning .to port,
tumbled over the wave crests one
after another -until she reached a
patch of strangely calm water.
"The oil causes that," explained the
skipper. "Watch and you'll see it
coming up."
Leaning over the drifter's side, I
could discern patches of oil rising all
around. They came up in quite tiny
points, which made big, many -hued
circles as they spread widely after
reaching the surface.
"She lies there," said the skipper.
"Oil's been coining up like that for
weeks. She must have been chockful
of it."
"How did you get her ?"
"Depth charges," And then came
the story:
"A U-boat, newly commissioned,
and just started upon a voyage of
piracy, had tried to steal past our
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The Solitary Grave.
Upon the farm he loved so well,
Looking across the acres wide,
Where wild flowers bloom and sun-
shine streams,
They laid his body, when he died.
He lived apart from marts and men,
And knew the friendliness of trees,
The broad companionship of skies,
And the caresses of the breeze.
His kin might lie in silent rows,
Crowded together, near a town,
But he would sleep where lie had lived
As the seared leaf drops softly down.
And so in sunshine and in rain,
And when at eve the night wind sings,
His dust commingles with the life
Of sweet, familiar, growing things.
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