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so disappointing as the night was to us, the enemy attack would, in the future, be weakened by this acceptance of danger.
To us-with day-an utter weariness, but with confidence born of the knowledge that after months, of anxious search we had detected the coming AT ONCE & had, with the resultant warning, enabled our Heads, so far as our area was concerned, to plot the course of the enemy with accuracy, & upon the accuracy of this plotting would depend the efficiency of to-morrow.
Thus early was it demonstrated that the men were sound if the material was weak.
The Look Out Posts did all that could be asked of them, searchlights found & held the enemy, our Air Arm established contact. What then was wanting? Effective ammunition.
17th May 1915.
ZEPPELIN RAID ON RAMSGATE & ST MARGARET'S BAY.
ZEPPELIN LZ 38, commanded by Hauptmann Linnarz,
Military Airship.
History:- 10th May 1915...Raided Southend.
17th May 1915...Raided Ramsgate.
26th May 1915...Raided Southend.
31st May 1915...Raided London.
7th June 1915..Flight Lieutenant J .S. Mills bombed shed at-
Evere, near Brussels, & destroyed LZ 38.
LOCAL COURSE OF LZ 38.
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