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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2681, 29 January 1916, Page 3

Sergeant 0. E. Bell, a New Zealand boy, who is serving with tho Canadian forces, in tho course of a letter to his mother from Otterpool Camp, England, gives an interesting description of a Zeppelin raid.. He says: "There was a Zeppelin raid on our camp a few weeks ago, and we had 15 men ana 12 horses killed. I happened to be in my tent at the time speaking to the lamersergeant, when the guard started yellin" to put the lights out, Ino sooner got ours out and reached the tent door when the bombs came screaming down. As soon as tho first .dropped I went to stand by the horses to keep them from stampeding, and I no sooner got there than both horsos in front of me were killed, which was a lucky thing for me, for if they had not heen there I would have got it. As it was I was only covercd with blood and mud. 1 hey dropped ten bombs altogether, five of them fell in our lines and five in a field close bv, but it was only the first five which did! any damage. The first one dropped between tho two guard tents and blow both tents and men -to atosis: the next fell in the 'horse lines and killed U horses and wounded as many more; one dropped in a tent , with six men in it and all of them were killed.. Ihe re maiiuter of tJic horses then and it was days before we got them again. There was a gloom cast< camn for a day or so, .but after theiuneral everything went on usual, and I' now it is almost forgotten.

At a meeting of a London c<oiifec tionery company it was stated that their trade had recovered m ,5° n |®' quence of the soldiers demands for sweots, and according to many letters striped hulls' eyes bad been more appreciated by the troops in the trenches than tobacco and cigarettes.