Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-09-18
AID RAIDS
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last week may we'll be imagined when
it is rememberN that the London dis
trict. taken SfdfRpnvenience as the area
administered blythe metropolitan police,
is just short of 10 square miles in area.
1t was by hastily dropping at random
In the dark explosives and incendary
materials somewhere on this enormous
surface that the enemy professed to have
accomplished an important military pur-
pose.
THE fact is hat no public institution
of any kind was hit. nor was any power
station or arscpal. No damage was done
affecting the use of any building con
nected direfry or indirectly with the
conduct of Pie war. 1t is true two hos
pitfalls narreGly escaped damage, but it
is only fai,s Ito say in behalf of the Off
GERS of an army which has done its best
to restroy the cathedrals of Belgium ana
France, that up to the present they have
succeeded in hitting only one church.
Moral Effect
so far as the moral effect of the
raid is concerned, it is feared that
from the standpoint of Berlin it was
a complete failure. If Count Zeppelin
himself accompanied the raiding air.
craft, as has been reported from Hol-
land he will be disappointed to learn
that only minority of the vast popu-
lation Of London was aware of the
presence of his airships that among
those who heard the guntre and saw
the Zeppelin the feeling everywhere
aroused were interest and curiosity
rather than fear. That London and it's
the murderous efforts Of these raiders
is in no way mitigation of the callous
and purposeless brutality of their ac-
tions or the tragedies which have fol-
lowed.
Material Effect
Somewhere in London there is a
little street with a public house at
the corner. Outside it Wednesday eve
ming, after the place was closed.
man and a woman stood talking
While the woman went away to buy
supper the man waited for her and
there fell at his feet the first explosive
bombs. They killed the man outright
and blew pieces of the paving stone
onto surrounding roofs. They blew
in the front of tn public house, reduc-
ing the stock to a mass Of broken
glass over which still floats the indie
Enable odor Of assorted forms of al
cohol. They took off the top Of a grand
plan on the floor above. twisted an
iron bedstead, injuring a woman who
was sleeping there. and reduced what
ho
small family to mass of SCOT, dust,
plaster and broken glass. In what con-
ceivable respect did this contribute to
the progress of the war?
A Miraculous Escape
I'm another part Of the area over
which the airship passed there is
big block Of workmen's dwellings
which are crowded day and night with
children. A bomb dropped on the roof
Directly under the roof was a little
nat in which four children were
asleep. After being put to bed, two
Of them got up secretly to make tea
in an adjoining room The bed they
left is now mass of charred and
blackened sheets, with the mattress
torn to pieces. They escaped by a
but in small bedroom next
door the other two children were kill
ed instantly.
These buildings are strong and the
bomb did not penetrate far. You hard
ly can notice the damage to the roof
IL you pass in the street. That was
az that was happening when the cap
tain Of the aircraft professed to think
he was visiting docks and vitality
damaging the Port Of London.
Bantam Rooster Killed
AT another place an incendiary
bomb dropped through the roof Of a
stable and fred a motor car into
which it fell. The stableman and his
wife in spite Of the fire set about
rescuing II horses which were in the
stable. They were carefully taken out
and turned loose in the street A dog
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