Penistone, Stocksbridge and Hoyland Express, etc. — 1916-09-09 (Penistone, South Yorkshire, England)

LOCAL AND GENERAI NOTES.  THE WRECKED RAID.  The exultation with which the disaster's,' the raiding Zeppelin brought down at taarr on Saturday night was greeted by the how: who witnessed the spectacle, and iv the nation a• a whole, furnishes; strikim: proof of the national detestation in w hi-a these machines • are. held. The most ambitione Zeppelin 'raid yet attempted against U s resulted ill reseal damage et a non-ml,. tary character, the death of two Englioa 1, girl';, Atl d, on Iniieesottoheard:deel.'' or English fearfi l i de;lr tion of one of the latest German dirigild • with its crew of sixteen highie_expert :aeronauts. The balance this time is heavi.v, , against the enemy. From his point of visa 'it was a most teastly expedition. But piel,:ably the great multitude of people war, cheered deliriously the downfall of Lies*. Robinson's victim as it sped, a flaming masa to earth, within sight of the city it was sea: to attack, thought little of the military r, verse inflicted upon the Germans by the ln of the raider. They remembered the num' berless wrongs and cruelties suffered hy. I defenceless and unarmed civilian aopula••••a at the hands of just such men as hese was "stewed in their own juice" on Satuidat night. The English people have it.- awl. ta hate and not to teal these murder machines. At the front, where the fate of Empires is I being actually decided by strong men wile slay or are slain. these timid, unwieldy cattle , of the air are regarded with utter iontemat, I Since the eel,- earliest days of the war Count Zeppelin ha, reali,ell (with sonic )'itterness land chagrin. we imagine) that his monstri,i[ties were useless for military purposes. Thee I dare not •come within rafige of the soldieti. They have been devoted with the more intensity. therefore, to the ignoble task of midnight murder. It is possible that the 'Zeppelin campaign against the civilian alai non-combatant population of Great Britata might, if not checked and discouraged by defensive measures. ;ultimately produce some degree of moral effect even upon a stout,. hearted race. If Zeppelins are harmless against armies in the field. unarmad dwellers are equally helpless against Zola Wins, and while we agree that the defence of the civilian population of the Unita] Kingdom is a consideration secondary to that of the safety and equipment of our forert in the field, always providing that the latter is fully secured, nothing should he left eta done to secure the adequate defence of t country against aerial attacks. In per slow. plodding, deliberate way. England is solving the problem of the Zeppelin menace, as s:;a solved the problem of attaining, while in :Is very toils of war, suthcient military atrenteh to assure the victory of the Entente against the. mightiest and most skilfully-erected military edifice the world has ever seen; as she overcame the great submarine menate; as she marshalled her far-flung Empire list, one solid, close-ranked phalanx; as, in faze, .she did a hundred wonderfully brilliant things In the manner of one doing us hundrei wonderfully stupid one.. Why is it to-day that So many thousands of our young military men have developed a passion for aviation? Why are a hundred thousand ';ufaring men searching for German submarines? With us the danger produces tse desire to meet and overcome it. W,,en , the Germans threatened us with a scourga 11 of Zeppelins out-doing in severity ..nlawtu• ness the plagnes of EgypC combined, tH threat was met with a boast equally foolish. Mr. Churchill, that siegularly unhappy and unlucky prophet, spoke of Zeppelin raid?rs being met by swarms of "hornets," coveys of aria tors a ho were prepared•to bury themselves in the flanks oi the invading leviathans. Ile spoke with utter inameeciatien of the enormous dittieulties in the way oh the aviators. Mainy gallant attempts have been made to bring ihaen Zeppelins tram la, air, but ait hi two brilliant exceptions ad have tailed of complete success. Nevertheless, what the late Lieutenant Warneforil. V.C.. did in June, 191-3. and what Lieutenant Robinson. S.C.. accomplished a° ma4nificently on Saturday night. levity thousands of young airmen are resolved to attempt at all risks, if and when the opportunity offeya. , If Saturday's Zeppelin raid wai !he most formidable yet- attempted, it was ;he