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Show SAW NO USE IN GETTING UP Correspondent in City Visited by Zeppelins Zep-pelins Simply Stayed in Bed and Touched Wood. , I was billeted at the time of the first Zeppelin raid in a little, smelly house of three floors and six apartments. The house was packed with the original orig-inal tenants, Jew and Greek, together with such lodgers as myself. In our flat of four rooms and a kitchen were the landlord and his lady, four sons and two daughters. The sons slept on the sitting-room floor, and if you came home in the dark you were likely like-ly to tread on them. Two French officers offi-cers shared the best bedrooms, while I slept alone in the second best. "Bung-bang-bang" went the bombs from the Zeppelin ; the French officers cried "En bas !" and the boys banged at my door yelling "Embros!" which is Greek for "Forwards!" As it didn't seem to matter much where one went, the whole thing, failing dugouts, being be-ing purely a question of luck, I stayed in bed and touched wood. The crashes of the 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 orange-colored blaze lit up the world outside, and so I got out of bed and watched it. deciding at last to dress and see things at close quarters. Albert Kinross, Kin-ross, ic the Atlantic. |