The Times appears to have been so darkly delighted with
its use of the word "invasion " that it employs it again in its second paragraph, and declares that the aeroplane is " the really formidable instrument of invasion." We are next told that " seventeen enemy machines, probably divided into three parties, took part in Friday's raid." Then comes an awful warning. " We must look forward, as we have often said before, to the possibility of invasions in which this number may be multiplied manifold, and in which the objectives may be even more important." No doubt people of a 'naturally gloomy temperament do look forward to events of this ,kind, and perhaps after all " look forward " is the right phrase. If the Germans employ their aeroplanes by the hundred in "invading " us, their airmen will be withdrawn from doing us serious mischief at the front, and we shall have things our own way ..there. That will be a great score, and well worth any damage or anxiety caused here.
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