Warneford's great feat belongs to Lieutenant W. R. Robinson, and
the fight was witnessed by a large gathering. It occurred in the
very formidable air raid on the night of September 2.
Breathlessly the spectators watched the Zeppelin harried by
searchlight and shell-fire. Suddenly it disappeared behind a veil
of smoke which it had thrown out to baffle its pursuers. Then it
appeared again, and a loud shout went up from the watching
thousands. It was silhouetted against the night clouds in a
faint line of fire. The hue deepened, the glow spread all round,
and the doomed airship began its crash to earth in a smother of
flame. The witnesses to this amazing spectacle naturally
supposed that a shell had struck the Zeppelin. Its tiny
assailant that had dealt the death-blow had been quite invisible
during the fight. Only on the following morning did the public
learn of Lieutenant Robinson's feat. It appeared that he had
been in the air a couple of hours, engaged in other conflicts
with his monster foes. Besides the V.C. the plucky airman won
considerable money prizes from citizens for destroying the first
Zeppelin on British soil.

The Zeppelin raids continued at varying intervals for the
remainder of the year. As the power of the defence increased the
air-ships were forced to greater altitudes, with a corresponding
decrease in the accuracy with which they could aim bombs on
specified objects. But, however futile the raids, and however
widely they missed their mark, there was no falling off in the
outrageous claims made in the German communiques. Bombs dropped
in fields, waste lands, and even the sea, masqueraded in the
reports as missiles which had sunk ships in harbour, destroyed
docks, and started fires in important military areas. So