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The Spectator at war: Terror without panic

From ‘News of the Week’, The Spectator, 23 January 1915:

WE have written elsewhere of the raid by German airships on Tuesday night, but may mention here the bare facts. The airships, of which there were apparently three, were seen at 1.30 in the afternoon off the Dutch coast, and they must have reached England after dark.

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