El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-03-21
ZEPPELINS HARM GERMAN CAUSE
BY MAKING BRITAIN WORST FOE

THE dawn Of . bright morning miles in the
4 air sails zeppelin over France on mission Of
smoke invisible with glasses and something speeds
into the gray sky to meet the arship There is TIE
enous crash in the zeppelin and jars and turns wabby
for hang IN the heavens. The crew
what has happened Blond young men, pale the
death before them work frantcay the gOndoas TO hur
overheard Of bombs in the hope that somehow, with
ghened load the arshp may somehow hang together
and their lives be spared.
Then there is great flash and the zeppelin plunges
rocket wise through the thousands Of feet Of air toward
earth At that instant few Of the in desperation
leap from the gondoas into the great air spaces turning
they fall through the skies. At least in
that fleeing before the rush of air mercuy takes
consciousness away they have the thought Of having burned
in that terrible comet.
In few moments it is all over The burned ruin of
the arship charred bodies tangled its wreck of steel
and WIRE lies crumpled the earth Somewhere else the
broken cOrpses Of those who leaped.
Thus perisbes zeppelin and its miserable end
terzes its weapon in Even for
scouting duty its mission is peOus, but to scouting duty
It must almost entirely be confined.
The strange of il is that the zeppelin has caused
greater injury Of the nation would have served than has
any other factor, for the submarine though earning
worlds hate has proved itself power the
The zeppelin has harmed Germany tremendously be
the zeppelin which awakened England The
British good natued rather agnatiye under the spell
Of psei1lsm were asleep IN national and military sense
before the zeppns began bombadng the eastern counties
The government had tried in way to the
Of the people to understand they were in the midst Of war
that the nation in dire peril and that 1t time
Whsn everyone must hsn IN one way OF anohei IN lhe
nations defence The people could not realize it The
was too far away. seemed unreal There soldiers
and sailors marching through the streets There
plscards calling enlist Great events being
chronced the newspapers. Otherwise there
Even when the ZeppelinS in the night bombing vii
lagos and in the outlying counties the Ger
bases there only mild stir Then they stoTmed
London killed many destroyed property and escaped There
shock in that The zeppelns repeated and then
again and again. increasing their destruction
really nothing at all With the size of the
bat II made havoc in tiny spotswhile the British anti
aircraft seemed almost pOveress against them and
British airpanes cced vany in pursuit through the dark
night.
It then that the English awoke with questions
reproache and great stir activity Officially England
awake when declared and fully awake
when the retreat from Mons threatened Paris disaster
But the people in the shops and the FARMS in factories
and huckstes carts had to have the brought
them by the German srships It then that recruiting
became easier and that the atmosphere settled on
London.
Awakened, England has been increasing every day and
every month her energies home in field Com
Parativey, Britain did nothing before the middle of 1915
and has done everything since The country furnishes
only great army and great navy for the war but
also provides the other nations of the entente with food
clothing, COAL supplies and money 1t has itself
GeTmanys most dangerous enemy II could do this
If the common people not thoroughly awake The
zeppelins ended their sleep.
Not only did the zeppelin stir up England undreamed
OF hostility but also caused developed the means
Of its destruction Because of the with which
bombing raids conducted England, every effort
exerted 70 end them with anti aircraft guns The
efforts failed al first and subjected the
forces in England to deoH at first downright wrath
Why could not the guns get the range? Why did the