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We have dealt with the whole subject elsewhere, and will

only ' repeat hero that the failure of the German raid—and failure it . was on a great scale—is most satisfactory. Though all the air conditions were ideal, though the raiders chose for themselves an area of activity in which no attempt was made to interfere • with them either by anti-aircraft guns or by opposing aircraft, and though they spent four hours going up and down over the - Midlands with complete liberty of action as to what places they should attack and what not, they practically effected nothing except the killing of some harmless civilians and the destruction of a certain amount of property.

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