Paris, Feb. 5.
For the second time, as you have no doubt been informed by _telegraph, we have had the realities of war brought home to us by a the object of these demonstrations Zeppelin attack. If, as we are told,
is to terrorize civilians, they seem to me to be a waste of energy. Personal experience shows that they are not terrifying at all, except to those unfortunate persons who happen to be within the ar of destruction wrought by the bombs. In the centre of the city, all we knew was that the firemen were tearing round, sounding the alarm and that the lights were being put out. A few minutes later came several muffled sounds of explosions in the distance. They might have been—es they in fact were—taken for bombs, or they might have been guns shelling the invader, no one could tell which. That was all. No one saw the Zeppelin, and there was not even 8 gleam from a searchlight on the darkness of the sky.
The alarm was given at a time when there are nowadays very few people about. Those who have not:
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