Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-02-02 | Page 12 | Local News

London, Feb. 1, 10:30 p. m. Special Orders issued by the police shortly before 8 o'clock tonight caused blinds to be whisked down all over London and reports spread that five Zeppelin Zeppe-lin dirigible balloons, sighted over Dover and presumably making inland, had been fired on by the forts, l'arls of the city of Iondon waited for more than two hours with blinds drawn, but nothing happened. Inquiries elicited from the police the information informa-tion that orders to prepare for an air raid had been issued by the war of fice, but whether bocause aircraft really had been sighted os as a re bearsal, it was impossible to ascertain. ascer-tain. One message from Dover reported that the raiders had been driven off by the cunflre, but no details were forthcoming.