Untitled

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 826, 3 October 1916, Page 6

Teutonic "('rightfulness" is having a bad innings just at a time when its advocates are at their shrillest in demanding the sinking of passenger ships and the razing of London by Zeppelins. It is (rue that enemy air raids have been conducted over Bucharest, considerable damage to life and property resulting, but all that is as nought beside the comparatively futile raids on England and the repeated loss of Germany's air dread-

noughts. In the last four attacks on London Ihe raiders have had four Zeppelins brought down on English soil, three of them in Names. This emphatic demonstration of the efficiency of Ihe British anti-aircraft guns and aviators will be a bitter pill For Count Hcvenllow and his ferocious gang to swallow. If rather demonstrates that the Zeppelins run too great a risk in crossing the Channel on their murderous mission, and if this is so, if England has at long last got the Zeppelin menace in hand, ii leaves Germany more impotent than ever. We can imagine such a situation driving the apostles of "frighlfulncss" into very paroxysms of hate against Kngland and all things Knglish. That she who was once so helpless under Ihe death

mined from the midnight sky could devise means of adequately protecting herself must be particularly galling to the "strafers," another insult to Germany's prestige, and an added reason win all the Teuton vials of hale should he uncorked for lingland's benefit. For if Ihe Zeppelins cannot hurl Ihe people of England, what remains as a weapon to Germany'.' the German fleet is hack at the old stand in Kiel Canal wailing for Heaven alone knows what, and it looks as though the short-lived triumph of the Deutschland has been overshadowed by Ihe loss of the second trans-Atlantic super-submarine, Ihe Bremen. Verily, the stars light in their courses against Germany.