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Show EXCITEMENT AT ROVALPALACE London, Ian 20. It is stated on excellent ex-cellent authorit that one Zeppelin passed nght over York cottage, which Is the Sandriimham home of their majesties, and came down to within 300 yards of the ground The king and queen, when they left earlier in the day, had taken Princess Mary with them, but the young Prince John and some dozen members of the royal household, remained at York cottage. The approach of the Zeppelin was first noticed bj Prince .John, who was sleeping, as is his custom, with the windows of his nursery open and the blinds up He was awakened by a light flashing in the sk and called his nurse's attention to it In a few minutes it was plain that the light came from an airship The, nurse ran and called Mr Gardner, the house steward, and all members of tho royal household assembled downstairs. Captain Edwards, equerry in residence, resi-dence, ordered Prince John and the servants to the cellars, while he and some of the other male members of the household went to the front entrance en-trance and surveyed the airship Some one shouted down from it in English, but the Zeppelin was too high for the voice to be heard distinctly. Then a piece of metal to which a paper was attached was thrown from the Zeppelin. On the paper was written writ-ten in German: "You must not be frightened. Re-member Re-member us all to your king and queen Our prince won't hurt you, Wo are after the airsheds at Yarmouth." The Zeppelin then rose very rapidly and disappeared in a few seconds in a northwesterly direction There is a strong suspicion that the German crown prince or one of his brothers may have been In tho Zeppelin. London, Jan. 20 The Dailv Times correspondent wlres the following from Yarmouth: "I have been unable to discover anyone here who actually made out the outline of last nlpht's' unwelcome visilor, but t.horo Is no doubt that it was a Zeppelin. Two unexploded bombs found here aro of such weigh! and size they could scarcely he carried car-ried by a Taube. There Is little doubt that the first Zeppelin visit wafl In tho nature of an experiment In which the German aviators avia-tors sought to find out what counter attack would greet them on their sir rival at a particular stretch of country. coun-try. Experts aree that the result of the first flight must have satisfied Germany to an extent which insures an attempt at London Itself. But getting to Ixmdon will be an altogether al-together different proposition for obvious ob-vious reasons. The most striking ef-feet ef-feet of the raid has been to increase the igllance of soldiers and civilians alike and to cause the enforcement of stricter measures regarding lighting of houses and streets at night. Vigilance has been Increased In n Other direction also. The presence of a Zeppelin over the royal residence at Sandringham, only a few hours after tho departure of the king and queen, suggests only one thing, that England Is still infested with a huge corps of German spies oo |
