Though- most of the newspapers, greatly to their credit, took
a perfectly reasonable and unsensational line in regard to the raid, we regret to say that the Times and Daily Mail both showed signs of that excitable and neurasthenic mood which was observable during the raid on the Midlands a year ago. For example, the Times .in its first leading article on Monday declared that the raids can and will be repeated on a scale amounting to " invasion." That is of course exactly, what cannot, and therefore will not, occur. There .may be the same kind of " tip-and-run " raids, and occasionally bombs dropped more or less at a venture will find lucky billets. It is indeed just a toss up whether a raid turns out like the Zeppelin raid on the East (best a. few days ago, which• ended in the death of only one man and one horse, or like that on Folkestone. .What- is certain is that nothing which could justify the -word " invasion," if used in its normal sense, will take place from the 'sky during the present war.
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