Zeppelins in larger numbers than before—there were from seven to
ten of them—visited the East Coast early on Wednesday morning and dropped one hundred and sixty bombs. In one North-East town the raiders killed two women and three children, injured twelve others, and caused an old man to die from shock ; a railway on which, it is said, the signal-lamps were alight was slightly damaged and four houses were burnt. Elsewhere the raiders failed to do any mischief. The German Admiralty have issued another lurid account of the destruction of munition factories and naval bases. The fact is that each successive raid points to a steady improvement in our methods of defence, and especially in our gunnery. In the last five raids the Zeppelins have failed to make their way inland, and have been obliged to fly so high that they could not aim their bombs with any approach to accuracy, even if they knew where they were.
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