27 OCTOBER 1917, Page 2

The perfectly satisfactory answer of those responsible for the defences

of London wee partly given by Mr. Boner Law in the House of Commons on Monday night, when the adjournment was moved and some particularly superfluous speeches were made. The truth le that the defences of London entirely, though silently, fulfilled their purpose in keeping the Zeppelins at an enormous height. The Zeppelins travelled so high for safety that they had but the remotest knowledge, if any knowledge at all, of their whereabouts. If they were invisible to us through the mist, we were also invisible to them. One of them seems to have drifted across London with its engines shut off. Others also seem to have stopped their engines in order not to betray their position. Even Frenchmen could not have shot them down under such conditions.