YOUNG GERMANS AT. PLAY.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15218, 4 March 1915, Page 9

YOUNG GERMANS AT. PLAY.

BOMB-DROPPING ON LONDON

A remarkablo article in tho "Fortnightly Review," entitled "What 1 ; Found Out in tho House of a Ger-* man Prince," by "An English :Govor J , ; ness," doscribce what tho auUwjr.eair V in Prussia In 1912. On her first in-:-:-: troduction, to her young charges, small boys and a little girl of eighty ■%][ she found thorn engaged with of oxcitomont over a new game under the supervision of a young lieutenant.; .-o* A large model of London: had;been ; built on the floor of the ekitU© showing churches, theatres, houses, parks with trees, grass, and eheots of imitation^*«*£# Each of the children, uhder th 6 .daec- f tion of the young officer manipulated a miniature airship? ove*. the threatened city. The toy ZeppeliM v ; •wore propeUed through : -the,v air, iuochanism, but were guidod-on any,: dirootion, and slowed down ; «r by a long string attached to 'eachfe PT& pulling a second: string white pUl*~miiuaturo with flour—were made to fall;from; toe,r r airship, Before the presence "of. visitor was noticed, the,lieutenant^cor-.v'.; rected the faulty practice of boy, and succeeded, himself!;:.mf ping a miniature 'bomb ship upon tho model of Abbey. Trafalgar square, ty buildings; at WhitehaU. /:■: Bn«kine-m ham- Palace; the Tower, ;«ier &sak£os England, and other "important; pubjßc;;| buildings were all rocogntsably sented in the model: kindly deßcribed aU the, pomte' gamo to tiie- governossr and that it was a ''KriegMnel" forraoull'Ss children invented by Count himself. The ballooneV;of tho^ were filled with ordinary: coolrgas-ienagl the, trhold nearly as possible tji ecalel how oi; aristocracy have been amneed and jeau-gg catod! Similar models of Paris *n<l ior-(|| Petersburg had also Deon;;proyiqedJ tho painstaking Count ZeppeliiiiinNctf der that practise the least interesting pert" of isV:an : account of. General who came ■on' ; ftvyirit'-'to.- ; -itei"pnoe|lw ; i father of the youthful ! —"the ruthlese: man I had oi'er met—the militarism; in. flesh --Wad '■bloodr'T