THE RAID ON NORFOLK

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 20, 25 January 1915, Page 4

THE RAID ON NORFOLK

Discussing the German Zeppelin raid on the coast of Norfolk, the Welling. ton Post remarks that one object of the venture was to create consternation in England and to giva heart to the dejected people of Germany. Further: "Tile second object of the raid in our opinion, was to test the possibilities of the Zeppelin aircraft in facilitating an invasion of England.

! It is well known that the German scheme, so far as it goes, is for a sally out of the fleet to engage the British high sea fleet as far to the north as possible, while a host of light-draught transports puts out from Emden, Wilhelmshavcn, andj ports along the Friesian coast, toMandj a force under convoy of Zeppelins somewhere in Norfolk or on the shores of the Wash. That such an expedition is actually contemplated,J or was, at any rate, early in the war, is indicated by the confession j of a German prisoner, who admitted) that for some time previously he had, been one of a large force kept inj waiting for a sudden invasion of England. That such a raid is not beyond the bounds of possibility many. British military experts firmly believe. I That it could ever succeed in doingi vital damage to the heart of the Em-j pire is a different matter. In the, meantime, all that England can do is to be prepared for eventualities. Further air raids, if nothing worse, are sure to follow this latest, which, from the German point of view, will: be regarded as eminently successful.) From our point of view, it will only| nerve all true Britons, in whateverl part of the Empire they may live, toj greater efforts. No air raids or naval I raids can decide the issue o.f this! war. Only a smashing defeat of the J enemy on land can do that, and that! the victory may be ours the Empire! wants men, more men, and still more men. The sooner the people of New Zealand, as the people of Australia, Canada, and the Motherland herself, wake up to that prime essential of victory, the sooner will peace come and the more permanent will it be."