The Germans made another air raid on a portion of
the London area on Wednesday night, and incendiary and explosive bombs wore dropped. Little material damage was done, and the few fires which resulted were quickly put out by the Fire Brigade. We regret to say that, according to the first list of casualties, there were eight persons killed, two women and six men, and thirty-four injured. All, except one soldier, were civilians. We must not, of course, give any indication as to where the damage was done, or how far north, south, cast, or west the aircraft, of which there was presumably only one, proceeded. The whole performance was exceedingly futile, and, it need hardly be said, caused not the slightest perturba- tion in London. The rattling of the guns and the explosion of the shrapnel are always picturesque, but perhaps the most striking thing in a London air raid is to see the taxis and motor-'buses picking up and setting down passengers exactly as if nothing were happening. Another aspect of the raid, which we may mention, we think, without offending the Censor, is that there had been a good many enemy rumours as to the terrible things which the Germans were going to do to us on October 13th, The result of all this prophetic vituperation was the poor little display of Wednesday I
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