THE ZEPPELIN TRIUMPH
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“But Mother had done nothing wrong, had she, Daddy?”
The first Zeppelin attack on London was made on the evening of the last day of May, 1915. Zeppelins passed over Colchester at 10 o’clock, and at twenty-three minutes past ten the people in one of the poorest and most crowded quarters of East End were startled to find bomb after bomb, mainly of incendiary type, dropping among them. A large number of civilians including many women and children were killed.
By shell from sea, by bomb from air, Our greeting shall be sped, Making each English homestead A mansion of the dead. And even Grey will tremble As falls each iron word; “God punish England, brother? Yea! Punish her, O Lord!”
A Hymn of Hate by Herr Hochstetter. Translated by Capt. G. Valentine Williams. London Daily Mail.
