The German official telegram describing the raid is more futile
and absurd than usual. It represents our assailants as dropping bombs on " the docks, harbour, and factories in and near Liver- pool and Birkenhead, on Manchester factories, on iron foundries and smelting furnaces at Nottingham and Sheffield, and the great industrial works on the Humber and near Great Yarmouth." That, of course, is " all my eye." It merely shows how extra- ,A:ordinarily difficult it is for the Germans to know where they are. It must not be forgotten, however, that our foes are exceedingly anxious to correct their bearings, and they put wild assertions of this kind into their reports in order to draw disclaimers which may help them to identify the places reached. All specific contradiction, therefore, must be avoided. Their statements are really questions. We know the game of twenty questions and how easily it works.
