What is the truth about the Zeppelin raids? Per-
sonally, I examined the results of several raids that
occurred while I was in England. The damage was
wholly negligible. I had German and English official
reports in my hands. I found no inaccuracy in the
English reports. I never found a truthful statement
in the German reports. Three times as many people
were killed by vehicles and street-cars in New York
City, in the last two and a half years, as were killed by
Zeppelins in the same time. The number killed by
accident in New York City in two years is twelve
times the number killed by the Zeppelins in all their
raids. The German official and newspaper reports are
pure fantasy, and everybody in England knows it.

What is the effect of the Zeppelin raids?

First of all, there has been no destruction of life or
property of any military importance.

Second: They brought the war home to the British
people, and were one of the chief causes that led in
two years to the raising of five million volunteers.

Third: The German reports, which are republished
fully and in all the newspapers, lead the English people
to judge all statements made by the German Govern-
ment as of doubtful credibility.

I can close this study of the Zeppelin myth in a
fitting manner with an extract from a poem, entitled
"Battle Prayer," by Pastor Dietrich Vorwerk:--

"Oh, Thou, who art enthroned on high,
Above Cherubim, Seraphim, and Zeppelins,
Thou whose sword is the lightning,
And whose cannon the thunder,
Send down thunder, lightning, hail and tempest
Upon the heads of our foes,
And hurl them headlong
Into the dark death-pits."

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