To Stop Zeppelin Raids
To Stop Zeppelin Raids is an article published in the Daily Express on 19 january 1916.
Extract from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's letter pubished in The Times (18 january 1916).
To Stop Zeppelin Raids
THREATEN RETALIATION ON GERMAN TOWNS.
Sir A. Conan Doyle suggests that retaliation is the best method of preventing Zeppelin raids on London. In a letter to the "Times" he says:—
"The German airship coming from the eastern part of Belgium has to travel at least 200 miles each way upon its mission. Had we an aviation centre near Nancy we should be very much nearer than that to great German centres of population.
"The distance from there to Wiesbaden would be 100 miles, to Bonn 130, to Frankfurt 140, to Coblentz 120, to Cologne 150. If, then, London is vulnerable, these are very much more so.
"Without any delay we should establish such an aviation centre, defend it with numbers of the best aircraft guns against the persistent attempts which will be made to destroy it, and announce to the German Government through the American Embassy at Berlin that we can tolerate no more outrages upon our civilian population, and that any further raids will be followed by immediate reprisals.
