Fears vanish

Air raid reassures the timid

Progress of the allies

A man of 50, two women, one aged 72, and a boy, were killed by the bombs which fell on the Norfolk coast yesterday. We learn that the rejoices of Germany could not have been greater if they had killed every baby in the country.

What really has been proved is that we have much less to fear from Zeppelin raids than was originally thought to be the case.

In London, we learn, inhabitants who had previously felt timid now take quite a different view of things for they are able to realise as was not possible before, the limitation of the Zeppelin and aircraft generally.

A Newport resident who has paid two visits to London recently said that the change of feeling is amazing. His places of call took him amongst people who had hitherto spoken with bated breath which had seemed appropriate at the time. Their fears have now entirely gone, vanished as it were in a night.

Following a quiet day there was a renewal of activity at many points in the western theatre of activity on Tuesday.

The artillery on both sides was very busy all along the line and vigorous attacks by the Germans were repelled by the allies. The only advance noted was at Bois le Pretre, where the French are now 100 yards beyond the line of trenches captured from the Germans on Monday. An attempt at dislodgement by the enemy failed.

In the Bois de la Grurie in the Argenne a German onslaught drove the French out their trenches but they were afterwards recaptured by two energetic counter attacks being still held at the close of the day.

A very lively artillery duel is reported in the region of Nieuport where the allies succeeded in destroying some German works and a farm which had been strongly defended.

In the eastern theatre, the Germans continue to make desperate attacks to break the Russian lines. On the left bank of the Vistula and the Western Galicia further attempts to force the offensive have failed.

On the other hand the Russian troops advancing in the Bukovina have made further progress and have captured a village near the Strol Pass.

Kaiser’s birthday

Are Germans preparing a gift?

The determination of the German commanders in various branches of the service to do something contemptuously frightful in order that a fittingly fatal present may be made to their emperor on his birthday next Wednesday is generally accepted in London as the explanation of the Zeppelin raid on the east coast.

If Sandringham had been hit, even though, contrary to German belief the King and Queen and their family had left for London some hours before, then there would have been something more to show the German public for the aircraft attempt. London is fairly prepared for a long threatened visitation.