Show SAW NO USE IN GETTING UP correspondent in city visited by zep belins simply stayed in bed and touched wood I 1 was billeted at the time of the first zeppelin ln raid in a little smelly house of three floors and six the house was packed with mith the original tenants jew and greek together avith such lodgers as myself in our flat of four rooms and ami a kitchen were the landlord and his lady four sons and two daughters the sons slept on the sitting room floor and it if you came home in the dark you were likely to trend tread on oil them two french officers shared the best bedrooms while I 1 slept alone in the second best bang bang bang went the bombs from tile the zeppelin the french officers cried en has bas and the boys banged at my door yelling embros which Is greek for Form forwards ards As it seem to matter much where one went tile the whole thing falling failing dugouts dug outs being purely a question of luck I 1 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 blaze lit ht up the world outside and so I 1 got out of bed and watched it deciding nt fit last to dress and see things at close quarters albert kinross in the atlantic |