GONE TO HIS DOOM

Free Lance, Volume XVI, Issue 871, 16 March 1917, Page 8

GONE TO HIS DOOM

Zeppelin the Murderer. prominejit Hun professional : murderer has gone to .""his doqru. -Count Zeppelin is dead. A clever man, an ingenious' mechanician/ in his own -■way almost a genius. But a murderer, and, one, let it not be forgotten, who gloated over his crimes, and died, as his own niece assures the world, out of sheer chagrin that the death roll of innocent. English men, women, andchil.dren, for which his airships were . re- ..-■ sponsible; was not as heavy, as he -had. hoped it would be. Let ns hear no snivelling cant about -the picturesque figure'of the .; venerable Teuton engineer. His Imperial master, the Arch-Assassin of Europe, had no-more earnest supporter, in the Imperial cam-, paign of frightfulness than Count Zeppelin, whose - bo-nibs have sent scores -of poor Englishwomen and innocent English children to their deaths. » ... 4J » . ■» He is properly to be classed with the inventors of the poisonous gases , and microbe-infected sweets, the poisoners of wells, the violators of nuns, the murderers of priests, the desecrat'ors of, sacred shrines, and all the other Hun devil's . spawn which the war has brought into infamous prominence. - When a great scientist, or a great engineering genius such as Zeppelin, -prostitutes his talents to devising meansfor the slaughter of innocent noncombatants, it is not for decent Eng-'., lishmen -to regret his death.