17 OCTOBER 1914, Page 3

The Times of Thursday publishes an informing and unsen- sational

article on airship raids, with special reference to Zeppelins. The Germans, as the writer points out, are naturally interested in spreading as much dread of a Zeppelin invasion as possible. For weeks past we have been treated to stories, conveyed for the most part through articles in the newspapers of neutral nations, or through American tourists newly arrived from Germany. (It must be a month since we read of two American engineers who spoke of the " titanic) energy " shown by the Germans in building Zeppelins, of which they would soon have no fewer than one hundred and fifty. This story has reappeared at intervals since, but the number now mentioned for the raid on London is given as seventy-five.) The writer, while regarding these estimates as very far wide of possible truth, observes that this is no reason for carelessness or scoffing. He regards a Zeppelin raid as fairly certain to be attempted, and in conjunction with air- ehipa of other types.