Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-04-16 | Page 5 | Fear of Zeppelins is Cause of Panic

FEAR tEAR DF Ot ZEPPELINS IS CAUSE CM OF Ot PANIC Correspondence Associated d Pre Press s. s LONDON April A G.-A G A small AmaH town I Ithe In Inthe Inthe n the youth of Jf Enplane England which was c ordered d to tike talce the usual military precaution on the occasion of ot one of or the recent recen t false alarms regarding Z Zeppelin pp lIn raid era rs lived for nearly uly twenty four hours hour ulc under er a martial law which prevented 1 all any one from ven wen going Int Into the streets Street tr ets s all aU till b cause somebody In fn London forgot for lor- g got t 10 to notify tho the local loal authorities 8 that tha t things were all right A corr correspondent t In tho the town gives eE 1 details of ot thi this s s occurrence mention of or which In the newspapers ers w was s forbidden by the censor cen cen- sor I arrived home homo late lite te In the tho evening after alter a visit to to London to find m my wife and nd mild huddled in a n circle In t the h cellar s scullery ullen Th The light of ot a flicker flickering Irs ing candle fell on their pallid faces Tho rho test of the house was In darkness So S were all the streets Our special constables constables con con- stables had valiantly dashed forth a athe at t tho the first alarm and turned out all th the tho street treet lamps In some cases they ha had d adopted the simpler method of If It it were w ro not for or fear rear of ot the censor I could tell a great deal more about abou i our Zeppelin night It produced d man many stirring scenes The ladies ladles who sho v. v ho hurried hur hue sled ried out into the cold dim world each h with a bab baby clutched In one ono hand and anda an c d a a. hag bas full of belongings in the oth other r will not soon for forget et it Tho nl night ht really lasted all the next cIa day as well and the local milkmen wh who ho were com coming In in from rom the tho country countr were aver not admitted to our streets street s While v. v we were vere shut off art from the outer oute r world we nil all thought of ot Our Zeppelin night was rather a mystery for tor nobody knew Just how I it be began an Wo 0 never ne know for tor Instance wh why the streets were blocked I believe the tho Germans Germane are er very ery clever but so farns fat far ns as known the they have never threatens threatened to bring their Zeppelins In on wheels Nor can cnn we wo find out why the tho inspector r of oC markets a local official well known know n toto everybody c was refused admission n to tho town where ho he was born an and d bred The Tho policeman on our beat said laid day days s afterward that it was a 1 false alarm alano an and d that some orne one in London had forgotten to telephone down to release them thorn fro from m the martial law hurried hurriedly 1 ordered o on n tie the first rumors of a raid Anwa Anyway fo for tor r twenty four hours we all really remembered that wo we were at nt war