16 JUNE 1917, Page 1
This was the first raid by aeroplanes to reach Lenl.don.
On a. previous occasion only a single German aeroplane had dropped some bombs. London, for the most part, treated the raid as a spectacle. Hundreds of thousands of persons watched the shrapnel from our guns bursting in the sky, and ran to good positions for looking on, their curiosity quite overcoming any desire to reek shelter. The entire absence of panic was splendid in itself. There need not be the least fear that the London crowd will ever display a want of self-control. A good deal of criticism has been directed against the authorities for not warning the public. But we doubt whether this could be done with advantage in the vast geographical area called London.
