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AIRSHIPS AS FIRE-RAISERS.

"It is fairly obvious (says the writer of the London Chronicle's Office Window notes) that the Zeppelins, at whose scmewhat futile visits we have laughed, are but single spies. Nor is there much doubt that before long the battalions will come, armed not with the simple bomb that merely makes a hole in the garden, but with the incendiary bomb. Twenty Zeppelins, each carrying a ton of these fire-raisers, if they all arrived together, could start some most inconvenient fires in various parts of London simultaneously. If you have watched the German papers you will know that Berlin's' burning desire is to burn down London. "What do you think would be the task of the Fire Brigade (already somewhat thinned by enlistment) if called out, to cope with the results of twenty tons of highly incendiary bombs sprinkled about London? I do not wish U> make your flesh creep unduly. But as it is quite possible that a successful raid may raise fires all over London — who is going to extinguish them? Not, I imagine," the thousands of quiet London Germans who are watching the signs of the sky 'from their happy freedom of the streets. "As a matter of precaution it might be well to call up many of us who, if not already special constables, ought to be, and train us (we are fairly intelligent) to the auxiliary tasks of the fire brigade. Many men unfitted to shoulder a nfle are ready and able to deal with a hose-pipe.''

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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 15, 17 July 1915, Page 10

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AIRSHIPS AS FIRE-RAISERS. Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 15, 17 July 1915, Page 10

AIRSHIPS AS FIRE-RAISERS. Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 15, 17 July 1915, Page 10

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