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Horowhenua Chronicle, 10 December 1915, Page 3

Zepps !

EVJiIU'ONE Wh.VL DAll'T. A Zeppelin laid over England is described in a letter io hus parents by U miner I. (j. Hamilton, .No. 2. Battery, N.Z. Field Artillery, wlio was an inmate ot the convalescent cm nip a.. Wuodcote I'ark, Epsom. Ac says:

"'Last night we turned off to Lutton "gain, on little money, as the Staff ha. forgotten to pay us. Anyway, not long after we had been there a buzzer wem off, all lights were promptly put oat. people crammed into the streets, spechi constables ruslied to the police station. Zepps : ! ! Everyone -went "daft." Why, some people were praying to the Kaiser to spare them. The whoL , Jnob were in a "rotten flint, ■' but were orderly. J. would have given almosi ' anything to have seen one, but all I saw was the bursting shells and searchlight. It was quite good to hoar tinnoise of guns, but I can't •understand the people so scared. Why we on tlie Peninsula had bombs mopped at tie many times. Some people swore they had seen one. All the trains were stopped, and'we couldn't get back to c.imp; we had to wait an hour before the train left. The papers this morning say that eight person were killed and thirty-four wounded up to 11 p.m. All theso small towns are Kept in darkness, the buses are all dark, and motor* have only, one lamp. Why iF"ww so dark that I nearly got killed crossing the road. I did ciwse after having so many squeaks oaf in tlie Dardanelles to .think that a bus nearly got me.