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Show f ZEPPELIN AND Hf RAIDERS. M While British warships were ratn- Hf in? shells on Zeebrugge and other i Belgian coast points which the Ger- Hll mans have fortified, a German cruiser H squadron made a raid on the east M coast of England, 100 miles north of H London. H The Zeppelins, which bombed that fl part of England last night, may have been employed as guides for the Ger- Hf man. warships to notify them the H coast was cleat-, as they made no de- H termined effort to proceed inland and Hl departed soon after circling over the Hl coast country. H This German attack may have been H intended to draw off the warships H engaged in shelling German positions Hl in Belgium. HI This is the third raid on the Eng- H lish east coast made by the Kaiser's naval forces. The first one occurred soon after the war opened and the second in January, 1915, when two or three German warships were sunk or . Boriously damaged. The Germans suffered suf-fered so severely In thp last dash that they were not expected to repeat, re-peat, but the Teutons always do the unexpected. Their Zeppelins must be a source of protection, as they can forewarn the raiders of any large force of British ships and direct them along the lines of least resistance. No doubt the visitors scattered a large number of mines from the coast of Holland to Lowestoft. -oo |