Show LONDON IN Ift PANIC FROM FEAR OF j ZEPPELINS Citizens Contrive Various Schemes to Avoid Falli Falling Fall- Fall i i ing g Bombs MANY DIG CAVES Some om Place Faith in Subways Subways Subways Sub Sub- ways Police Discourage Discourage Discourage Dis- Dis courage Plan G. G SHEPHERD United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON March tarch 23 By mall man to Yew New ew York York London London Is In persuaded more than ever er that Z Zeppelins are arc coming hero some somo day and day and how to dodge th them m is a n problem m that e.-cr e. every citizen works out In his own way The first victim of ot the Zeppelins lIns Is the wife of ot a 0 householder in the suburbs who while assisting her husband to dig die a bomb proof trench In tho the back yard rard was killed b by a The Kansas cyclone cellar Idea Is one ono that appeals to many London householders and more than one garden in London hides a subterranean sub flU t sh shelter lter Public opinion shifts shUts In regard gard to the subway as a shelter In the early arl days of or the Zeppelin menace Londoners London London- ers rs settled back confidently and said Id Why hy theres there's the un underground You Youcan Youcan can an laugh at al a Zeppelin from the underground The They cant can't hurt you oU there At first blush It Il seemed to toI tobe tobe I be a ft sound Su suggestion Uon Unlike the subways S 'S of or New York Philadelphia Boston Pt Iaria Berlin Berhn or Budapest the th London subways are not covered ered ex excavations IX ex- I but are arB tunnels dug duS deep i I under the London streets No New I Yorker for tor Instance whO knew anI anything anything any any- I thing about Zeppelin bombs would i think of finding safety from them In InI Inthe Inthe I the Now York subway but the Lon Londoner I doner naturally turned to th the tubes For some weeks the tube seemed to toi i solve the problem but as soon noon as the tho I police found out that the public pubic was wa I planning to take to the tha tubes they I proved beyond doubt that the tho tubes would not be sate safe And soon you i hear Londoners talking like this No INo tubes for m me Think of oC all 1111 the sewer flower and water ater pipes that Ho lie und r I tho the streets above the tubes Suppose a bomb breaks one of ot tho the great water waler mains Tho The tube would be flooded and you'd ud drown like n n. rat raL I Feared Panics The police also fore foresaw th the dnn danger dancer r rot of ot panics in the tho tube stations citations Hundreds Hundreds Hun Hun- eds of ot men women Womer and children rushing down the stairways trampling trampling tram tram- pling the fallen scores of ot th them m being pushed off ocr the tho station platforms onto the live lI third rails rolIs the tho subway blocked Just at the time when hon it might be bo most nettled needed to rush parties I of ot soldiers policemen and ana doctors to some corner of ot the city where bombs have hare fallen all fallen all of or these lO possibilities I were taken into account r b by tho the por po- po H. H Ity r u n-u and every of nf publicity has been U used cd to convince the public that the tube Is the wrong wrong- place for tor shelter from Zeppelin bombs In most moat of the th Important subway stations sentries have havo been h lI h d Their duties In lit all probability are art to shut lh th tho Iron tt gl leading to the thc station platform as ns soon as U th the first signi of ot a 0 Zeppelin rush h are arf seen sen These sentries arc al also o supplied sup sup- plied with telephones tc II hy by means of or which they thc can call for aid In case of or p panic J Lucky uck is the hotel guest In London who can find a n room loom in the lower floors GIve 1 m me something on the third or fourth floors is the usual request of ot a newcomer to a London Jondon hostelry Believe Cellar Cellars Safe The ml advice vice gis given sJ n by the police to householders to seek k their cellars ellars can nn he be followed h by only a 0 small proportion proportion propof- propof tion of the London JAndon population There arc halt half cellars under tho em a average o London house and small maU coil coal cellars under the sidewalks wl but the deep basement or stone lined cellar In which the tho American householder feeds his furnace and keeps tho the vegetables with which h ho feeds his family ro Is 18 unknown in London The half halt cellar under a n London flat ha has windows opening onto tho the street and andIs andIs Is usually occupied b by servants ser pd many a ft householder is convinced mat IFfat both It and the coal cellars under tinder the sidewalk are arc the ho most dant dangerous rous places In the house during a Zeppelin raid mid Me Ie for tor the open country is Js the he disposition of ot the thc average Lon r. 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I 1 want to be out on tho the street whore I can see seo bombs and do dod e them hern rn Its It's Just like an earthquake The Tho safest st place IB Is outside your hOUA This open air plan however howe r. r is held only to 8 shallow hall 0 Londoners who o have not given I en tho the problem careful thought They do not take tako Into con- con tho the fact tact that ns nN soon oon as a Zeppelin appears over o IAn London on the sky eky might be filled tilled with bullets from antiaircraft guns and that these bullet will be as dan dangerous erous ns as the German air nil shells It Is on account of or these flying bullets that the police T Warn arn tho the public to eta sta stay indoors In- In doors and anti if It possible go o to the cel cel- lars lara As a n matter r of ot fact tho the a average aver aver- rn r- r n ago age 0 London house honse would be demolished demolIshed demolIshed demol demol- by a n Zeppelin shell and theman theman the tho thoman man In the basement would woula stand as little chance of ot escape from tram death or Injuries as tho the man on the tho top floor nut Hut if It London is kept Indoors during a n Zeppelin raid mid there will be bo far tar fewer deaths from lying flying antiaircraft bullets than If It London took tool to the open streets |