Show SAW NO USE IN GETTING UP correspondent in city visited by zep belins simply stayed in bed and touched wood I 1 was billeted at the time of the first zeppelin raid in a little smelly house of three floors and six apartments the house was pack packed ed with ith the inal tenants jew and greek together with such lodgers as myself in our flat of tour four rooms and a kitchen NN were ere the landlord and his lada lad four sons and two daught daughters rs the sons slept on the sitting groom room floor and if ou came home in the dark darl ou were like ly to tread on them two french boffl cers shared the best bedrooms while I 1 slept alone in the second best bang bang bang w ent the bombs from the in the french officers cried en bas I 1 and the boys banged at my door yelling embros which is greek for forwards I 1 As it didn t seem to matter much where one went the whole thing falling failing dugouts being in g purely a question of luck I 1 stayed in bed and touched wood the crashes 0 of f t the he big bombs were terrifying the house shook with each explosion but as all things good or bad must come to an end so too after a while ended this business A wonderful orange colored blaze lit up the world outside and so I 1 got out of bed and watched matched it deciding at last to dress and see than things s at close quarters albert ivin ross in the atlantic |