INVASION OF LONDON

Thames Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14900, 7 September 1914, Page 4

INVASION OF LONDON

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LO-MDOtNi •ANXIOtISJ

LONDON 1, Augu&t 31. •A gunora.l feeling of anxielty exists w. London tihatt the oitiy may he visoted! >by a Zeppelin.. TW"e havie beeuit nonooirs that a giant airship has been seem.

. T'h.o' aeronautical expert of iliet Daily Telegraph d!isniis.s>es bhe- idea of tiha possibility of an a"ea"Lal invasion of Englaind. The German army and navy at the preae-nt time, her writes, have j&ve effective JZeppelitafe, O£ thosei the navy ha« only on©, while tlir€« of the others are of the old&r, lees powerful type, and have hitEexto been! need h\ commercial transit^ work. Theteo aiirships m<art work from bases—each retu!rnmg to itss baseaft<er a n&ooniKiii«unce —and therv r coivUl not accempany an army far into thtv field. There pro "ba^'os at Halaiburg, Du.«seld'ci"f . Cologne, Mote, Manuhfflim, and Baden. A station was boinj.' ooofistracted at Heligoland, vijui* is not ciampletfd.

. '-It. \-> <.]:.v.,r, MicrL--f(,.ft>," writes, th^. expoit, "lh:\-h ■ those* aXwhiips would Jiaive a vary. lirnittrd range in tlid INbrth, Settii. If «ui,y "ita employed, in SiiOivnl warfare it will probably be in 'illo capacity of scouits,' but hoi'© they will eiraountier in our splendid fleet. 0f tx-uly forniidable fo-es."