No attempt was made to approach London. "The raiders," states
Lord French's official report, "were engaged by anti-aircraft defences, and were successfully driven off from several large industrial centres." Unless the killing of some sixty harmless civilians and the destruction of a large number of poor people's houses can be said 'to compensate for the destruction of two mighty airships, flying craft as long as large Atlantic liners, the two raids must have proved a deep disappointment to the Germans. We can Imagine that those who counted upon the airships playing a great military part must be seized with a feeling akin to despair when they see the worthlessness of the huge engines upon" which such vast amounts of money and ingenuity have been expended and such perverted and depraved hopes have been built. Pride has never before bad such a fall.
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