A Rotterdam correspondent of the Times, writing to Friday's issue,
gives an account of the effect of aerial bombardment upon Antwerp and other Belgian towns which is worth noting in this context, and should be read by those, if there are any, who still look with dread upon the coming visit of German airships to London. It would appear that in the first attempt to bombard Antwerp from the air, the two or three casualties, not important, which did occur were caused, not by German bombs, but by pieces of the shells fired at the bombarding aeroplanes by the Belgian guns. In the same way when, some weeks ago, a Zeppelin dropped bombs on Ostend, it appears that the only person injured (a woman) was hit by a piece of a Belgian shell. Clearly the aircraft have to rely upon the moral rather than the material effects of their belligerent action.
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