instrument of terror to the civil population. In the long list
of German miscalculations must be included that which pictured
the victims of bombardment from the air crying out in terror for
peace at any price.

Before the war Count Zeppelin was regarded by the British public
as rather a picturesque personality. He appeared in the romantic
guise of the inventor struggling against difficulties and
disasters which would soon have overwhelmed a man of less
resolute character. Even old age was included in his handicap,
for he was verging on seventy when still arming against a sea of
troubles.

The ebb and flow of his fortunes were followed with intense
interest in this country, and it is not too much to say that the
many disasters which overtook his air-ships in their experimental
stages were regarded as world-wide calamities.

When, finally, the Count stood on the brink of ruin and the
Kaiser stepped forward as his saviour, something like a cheer
went up from the British public at this theatrical episode.
Little did the audience realize what was to be the outcome of
the association between these callous and masterful minds.

And now for a brief sketch of Count Zeppelin's life-story. He
was born in 1838, in a monastery on an island in Lake Constance.
His love of adventure took him to America, and when he was about
twenty-five years of age he took part in the American Civil War.
Here he made his first aerial ascent in a balloon belonging to
the Federal army, and in this way made that acquaintance with