ENGLAND NOT TERRIFIED.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11511, 6 October 1915, Page 4

ENGLAND NOT TERRIFIED.

i MIRACLE OF AIR RAID. Mr Shepherd has supplied the Ameni can Press with an impression ot the 3 recent Zeppelin raid on uondon. He , is at a standstill Seven » million people in the biggest city m the world stand gazing at the sky from darkened streets. Here is the climax of the twentieth renturj I Among the autumn stars floats a long, gaunt ZeppeFn It is a dull yellow co.our m tnj moon, and lli© long lingers of searchlights touch nil its sides with white tips. . •, i. , 4 .i,„ 'j I '''Great booming eour.ds snake the I c itr They are Zeppelin bombs fal.iug, 1-il'p'nw, burning. The lesser noise w&> the aerial guns' reply sending shrapne. to the sky. , ~ '•■' For God's cake, aon t do that! -avs civ man as another strikes a match' to light a cigarette. Whispers and' low voices run through ail the streets All about yon are beautifully earbed women and men in evening I clothes. 'Ohs!» and 'Ahs!' like the cres. of a crowd watching a fireworks display greet the brilliantly white flashed of the bursting shrapnel. " Suddenly you realise that the biggest oitv in the world has become a ! night battlefield on which seven mil- ' lion harm'ess men, women and children line Here k vrav at the very heart of civilisation! What a roar of would go up from the million-- of tins ■rreat city if they could suddenly &ee th? yellow object transformed by an ' explosion. Men and women, the flowers ; of the twont ; eth century cu'tiKe, have i become elemental. Killing has been put into their hearts. i: If the men in the sky think the.v : are terrifying London they are wrong. • They are'onlv makine; ICn'cland wlrtsi hot'mad. We are nil brothers and pis- , tors in the streets of London to-niolit. ; We are just human, outraged and mad, ' ( unwidin's to d ; e. This is the miracle ■ 1 the great gasbag of the air brings ■! about." '