Word: raid
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...side which becomes too sure of itself, or too contemptuous of its foe, is due for a fall. The natural result or our six months in the conflict, without appreciable casualties, without seeing the power of the enemy, and without the stimulating influence of a Zeppelin raid, is to create a feeling that we have an easy path before us. Newspapers have enlarged this misconception. Stories of the remarkable strides being made by our troops, of compliments paid to them, and of German prisoners' surprise at seeing so many, are printed frequently and read widely. Stories of an opposite character...
...German towns are destroyed in some wanton and tragedically useless way, it will not be the airmen who manned Germany's raiding machines who will be punished. It will not be those stern minds which ordered the raid, nor the nourishers of that fierce policy of conquest which has led Germany on through the ruin of nations and the ruin of our frail human morality to the goal for which she would almost pay her life. It is not the workers of evil who would suffer by any scheme of revenge that might be planned...
...Rand said that one of the striking incidents of the Summer in London was the burning of the Zeppelin in the last raid. Its destruction by an aeroplane, he believes, will serve as a stimulus for future attacks by the cheaper and lighter craft. The Zeppelin raids in England he regards as a conspicuous failure in a military way. Dr. Rand commented on the strength of the English patrol service as being particularly noteworthy...
Italy has really made nothing more than a raid, not a war. Hardly good target practice was afforded at the bombardment of Tripoli, for the palace is so long that no sighting right or left is necessary to hit it. And, anyway, there was no resistance, for the Turks went away, leaving their banner flying and the Italians firing. A war with the forces of Turks in Tripoli would be a force if both armies were on an equal footing, but the control of necessary supplies by the Turkish army renders matters dangerous for the Italians. The terrible heat...