Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-11-11
RAID FEARS LESS
IN LONDON SINCE
HUNS ARE BOMBED
Retaliatory Methods Ex-
pected to Put an End to
Aircraft Visits.
ROYAL GOVERNMENT
BLAMED FOR INACTIVITY
Was Accused of Apathetic View
of German r-Raiding
Atrocities.
HUNS ALREADY PREPARING;
Must Decrease Output Of Air Ma.
chimes in Order to Make Guns and
Arm Cities Against Attack.

Arm Cities Against Attack.
LONDON. November lo.-colncident
with the report from tho War Office on
October 81 that H. T. G. airmen had
raidcd the steel works and stations M
Noikinsen Hthine province of Prussia,
with great results. a wave Of optimism
began 10 make itself evident all over
the British Isles: the rcprisal OF the
English air service had begun 1t was
on tn" 10Th day of the month. only
TWO days pr ,vious. that r. " A. s.
piahes had bombardcd Sparappelhock
ana Narssenacre ai.dromcS The at
ttcks were intended and directed to-
ward ,hc military works. but the Eng
lishman in the streets is satisfied tina,
nj last the officially announced policy
OF General SHUTS and Lloyd George
Is in it's incipicncy.
While the Gothas hurtled their wav
through the mooniit skies of Britain
the feeling that ranked uppermost was
not so much n desire for the fulfllmcnt
OF the old Mosaic law G lotcd bv the
S''vcry-tongued orator from South
AFRICA as a general desire on the part
OF all classes to show the Hun that
britons were neither so impotent nor
lacking in initiative as he had taken
for granted.
II Is easy to blame the royal govern
mcnt Tor H. seeming apathy i'm the mast
20 concentrated campaign OF counter
'f'Shtluiness OH ih. enemy >centers 1t
Is no less difficult TO help II now. Tho
problem must be met. The air ut pros
eh'' 10 be candid is supporting a pre-
ponderance OF Hun metal; we must
l,n at
ours to do with as we care il we applv
ourselves to the conception of great
AIR armadas. lie who pays the pipcr
calls the tune. and the tune is the one
'he Germans have been piping for the
last rev weeks. TIE I me he will dance
10 III the near future, the tune he will
be sorry he ever started
GERMANS BEGIN PREPARATION
TO WARD OFF ATTACKa
Already the Hun arms his cities and
trains his air defense crews; already
ne is turning great plants TO the pro.
duction OF defense guns for tho orn,,
mcnt OF his towns-and thus far w.
nave only threatened. The enemy will
ma the necessity OF divertinr his in
dustrics. vitality needed to SUNNY hi.
oattie lines. to production of a home
ueiense organization. an organization
heccSsitatcd by our air actions mud
raus 10 ms interior cities. So far IL
Is the peculiar conditions under which
q" army on the defensive fights that
nave permitted the enemy to spare the
niachtnes Tor croSs-chanucl work The
herman has been satisfied to take GER
tam risks in the fire zones (Which ,e
could we'll afford). while the British
neither preferred to take the necess.rv
riSkS nor intended To lombard in.
humancly. civil populations. Their
mana mas been forced; and even yot
"h'ie IL Is conceded the enemy civil
popuiation will suffer, the rcprisa,s
VIII nc dominated by military con-
sidcrations
oi the other hand:
The defcnSeS OF the Iondo, ,;
'"piniS reaching that point where
they Will be practically imnor,a,,o
|" hostile raiders. The public have a
guarantee OF the REQUESTS measure.
IN the fact that Lloyd George and
General SHUTS. under whose au.,ica.
the barraEc defense tactics wore IN
aug uratcd are personally s,lpcrvisin-
the aerial Development Abroad. ~.
''"N OF the Hun raiders is becominr
more difiicult. Two at least ~ ,h.;-
'' a'Fhr"ncS in Belgium have he
o'''' uhtehanle owing to the persistent
ATTACKS by bombing airntanos -;
flanders The famous Go,ha so,,d
'ohS nave become seriousl. den,etnd
oy the damage done to them viii. -,
the ground. But for those u,,aoI..
'herc would probably by now have hoon
hundred or more Goth, bon,hor.
ready to start for England in On.
puhch. AS it is. the Germans b,vs
never pccn able To put more thar
twenty-five in the air AT once.
INTO SUBWAY FOR SmErTEu
WHEN HUN CRAFT COMES
ant-Gencral Sir Francis Ilovd
commanding the London district has
assured the public in speccb mads
ioplar Town Hall that II have M
hesitation in telling the people mar
'"es are safe from Gothas on dark
aus. wet nights and in windy wealth
e' Hut there wasn't much Information
III .hat--and but scant comfort.
ME the military dafenses are en-
s"GihG the attention of the creates,
engineers in Britain there are cer,a,n
oetehses of quite another kind and
'lo"e me less necessity. protecting
inc ciNi! populace. In this direction II
Is that the most ingenious results have
been achieved
when the aerial enemies are first en-
gagged by the coast patrols the sirens
III London sound the alarm. motor cars
go scurryins through the streets pla-
carded with great bills. Take Cover"
and all street cars must keen on the
move. The crews have been couipped
with Shrapnel helmets. as have tho
hobbies, whose duty IL is 10 preserve
order and avert a panic. The London
tube systems current is switched off
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