4 SEPTEMBER 1915, Page 2

Mr. Balfour then answers the further question whether such judicious

reticence may not unduly reassure the British. How ought we to rate the Zeppelins among weapons of attack P As to their possible achievements in the future he wisely refrains from dogmatizing. He is content to point out that in the past, though they have caused much suffering to many innocent people, the result, with all its tragedy, has been magnified out of all proportion by ill-informed rumour. The total casualties in twelve months are seventy-one civilian adults and eighteen children killed, one hundred and eighty-nine civilian adults and thirty-one children injured.