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Show oo DESCRIBES THE BIGJIRCRAFT By A F. BEACH Cromer Norfolk, England, Jan. ii 2 -I u airship universally believed here to be a Zeppelin passed over Cromer shortly after 10 o'clock Lon'ght com ing in from the sea and traveling in a southeasterly direction toward London. Lon-don. There is no doubt about its being an airship, for I plainly saw Its outline, out-line, fhile the whirring of its engines and the propellers was loud enough almost for a deaf person to hear. Curiously enough, I had only ar rived In town an hour previously and was talking to the "boots" :ii Tucker's Tuck-er's hotel of Tuesday night s experience, experi-ence, when Cromer was honored by a visit from the German night raid ers Suddenly the young fellow stopped speaking and his face betrayed considerable consid-erable agitation Almost at the same tune f heard the ominous "throh-throb". "throh-throb". which grew louder and more distinct as I lintened Then both of us made a dait through the hotel door into the streot "They're 'ere again, sir," said "Boots " The town was in absolute darkness. Not a light was to be seen anywhere, but "Boots" took his heels down the street and 1 followed him In a short time we reached the sea front and there we stopped. The whirring had become much more distinct, dis-tinct, and, looking out to sea, I plain-ly plain-ly saw the outline of a monster airship air-ship coming toward us at a very quick pace The night was very dark, with very little mist but it was not so dark as to obscure our vision of the airship which seemed to be about 1500 feet up By this time quite a number of nersons had come out and the offi-eials offi-eials got very busy The coast patrol pa-trol was immediately notified and all the coast stations up and down the seaboard were railed. A few minutes later the airship had passed out of sight, and hearing, and as far as can be ascertained, dropped no bombs nor were any shots fired at her. The incident, as may be imagined, created much excitement here. TM1 |