Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-01
ZEPPELIN RAIDS BRING
RECRUITS TO KITCHENER

] government bhlEdNs NnoNtl lNlANAAei o.
rangements for not telling anybody any.
/ thing were so complete in the last big all
reid that the actual dropping OF bombs
was the first announcement which many
localities had.
have just made a tour Of the raided
counties of England, and note that the
German bombs which blew scores of men
women and children heavenward blew
thousands OF men to the colors and let
us hope blew into the minds of the Gov
ernment sharp realization Of the state
of affairs,
Sad scenes, OF course. are everywhere.
In a certain Midland village-names must
not be given-outside a wrecked cottage
l talked with mother who had lost five
children all killed. Her grief was pitiful.
"They were so young" she said. "such
little creatures | had put them all
to bed | hope they were asleep
when the zeppelins came mercifully
asleep pray heaven they suffered no
pain"
She had left the cottage for few min.
utes to buy an evening paper, never
dreaming OF danger o On her return
ruin. devastation, DEATH We talked there
by the wreckage disJointedly Suddenly
she bent down and picked up something.
II was the twisted fragments of q Teddy
bear "Baby'sw she said, clutching It
tight. 81 remember he took 1t to bed
Win nm
ROMANCE ENDED by DEATH
Farther on in the centre of the muddy
road, was a great hole. do you see that
hole?" observed vilager in passing.
We'll, young fellow was going to
visit his girl, who lives in that house over
there, when down came "A bomb, right at
this very spot, and knocked him over. lie
staggered to the girls house and her
father opened the door to find the poor
chap dying"
See that cottage with the holly tree
in the Eardcn?" he continued when the
noise Of the firing started I saw a little
boy run into the yard to get his rabbit
out of the hutch Bang! sThev
picked the child up In pieces"
As we proceeded through the rural
towns and villages, the sights and tales
were all the same. Rcd.eyed mothers were
mourning their dead children while other
women who, too, had lost close relatives
and friends, were Offering pathetic con
dolenCes that avalled little. Recruiting
sergeants were gathering in the young
men, boys recruited by death and disaster
WHAT'S TO BE DONE?"
Whats to be done?" an old woman
was crying excitedly. with the pathetic
futility which so many of her class show.
Done" exclaimed elderly khaki.
clad man. Listen to me! You've got to
send your lads into the army. You've got
to pray for powder and more powder,
instead of peace. You've got to go right
out aud get n job in a munition factory
yes, though you are T2 years old Your
old Blrs got to make his own meals
and you've got to send the washing out,
or do il between you on Sundaysl Wen
never win till every blessed Briton lends a
hand"
Excited Hear hears" :" followed this
In StaffordshIre I saw shattered
church and a meeting house adjoining,
with its entire side torn out. Some girls
who had attended the meeting when the
bomb fell told me about it.
"The Wears wife was conducting n lit
tie service" they said, and about 200 OF
us were present, mostly women and girls,
All of a sudden there was n roar, a
binding flash then utter darkness. When
lights were brought in, we saw that the
wears wife had been struck by n piece OF
shell and virtually blown into pieces.
while n woman and a young girl were also
We're seriously injured and bleeding pro-
fusely-in fact, the platform looked like
a slaughter housew
In that same town we encountered
man whose aged parents, wife and three
children had been killed by another
bomb. He refused to talk, but there
was n strange light in his eyes which
looked like dawning insanity.
The street in which he lived had been
"bombed" out of all recognition, the
houses were In ruins, and the little gar
en-plots-formerly so neat and trim
were strewn with smashed furniture and
the debris of walls and roof
somewhat inebriated gentleman in
sisted on giving us his impressions OF
the great air raid. with sundry unAat-
tering opinions of the Kaiser. It trans
pired that when the explosions took place
he had been drinking his usual con-
vivial cup in the local tavern, "The Brin-
died Cow" At the first detonation, his
glass of beer had fallen from his hands,
a mishap which he has never ceased to
lament.
IAN Emperor who'll rob the working
man of his beer is 'ardly the blolSe we
want over ere" he declared with some
heat.
WILD SCENE IN THEATRE.
Wild scenes took place in a Derby
shire theatre when a bomb fell on the
roof, and rolled off, burning, into the
road below. The roof quite perceptibly
swayed inwards, and utter panic would
have resulted had not the artists and
the manager laughed and joked and
with the audience. They in
sisted that the national anthem be sung,
and the audience, huddled in various
of the building, sang with falter-
ing voices which scarcely could be heard
above the detonatlon of the bombs.
Scattered all over England there are