COUNT ZEPPELIN'S OATH

Grey River Argus, 23 December 1916, Page 2

COUNT ZEPPELIN'S OATH

WILL DESTROY ALL LONDON OR .' . .. ._. . . ......w- .— ... .- . : . ., v-- -. : . — DIE.

The Paris Excelsior discussing the Zeppelin raids on Great. Britain says : "Information we have received from .Switzerland where one of : our correspondents has come into possession oli information of a serious character, en.-, ables us to state that the unrelenting animosity in Germany against Great: Britain shows no sign of abating. "Count.. Zeppelin is at Stuttgart ill, He is . uo longer young, is over- worked, and aDove all is very much affected by the lively campaign being carried on against him by his opponents. "It may be pointed out that the raids carried out by his root's are costing Germany several millions of marks each time without any groat result being achieved, and he is being re proached" for proceeding by small 'instalments. People ask why, when he has eighty machines, ready he does not dispatch them together against London "It is true that- Count Zeppelin has his defenders, who. say that if. the Camarilla which surrounds . the Kaiser were not tying the. hands of the chief of the Empire's aerial forces Great Britain long ago would have been brou ght to her knees and would have asked for peace. ' "■ . ' "Count Zeppelin does, not .perhaps share these illusions of his enthusiastic supporters, but an obsession, and a dream of his is the destruction: of all London. -. . .. ' • ' "A woll-informedl. German recently said to one of our-eorrespondents :— r I assure yo\i that shortly ypu -will be ; t Iking of a gigantic. :-.raid on. Londo The King's palace the principle structi'reSj all will be destroyed. This 1 promise you. The Count has sworn to achieve this result or.die."