The Spectator at war: Calm before the storm

From ‘News of the Week’, The Spectator, 3 April 1915:

Whether it is the lull before the storm or only an accident we do not know, but in any can there is a most curious absence of news both from the western and the eastern theatres of the war. In the western sea area we read of a certain amount of Zeppelin activity, but not of a very important kind.