Horrid Zep

The roar of Zeppelin engines is a horrid sound to British ears. Last week 100,000 of His Majesty's subjects, gathered in the presence of George V and Queen Mary at famed Wembley Stadium, booed and jeered the Graf Zeppelin.

Nosing over to England from the Fatherland, the long silver cigar radioed down a question: "Where is the King?" Up flashed the answer: "At Wembley." The long cigar nuzzled over toward the stadium. Not since Zeppelins last bombed England 14 years ago has a German airship flown over London. For good measure the Graf skimmed Buckingham Palace at a height of barely 200 ft., seemed almost to brush the treetops.

At Wembley the Sovereign was doing his royal best to seem as interested in the Arsenal-Huddersfield soccer match for the "English Cup'' as were most of the excited spectators. When the Graf nosed down and dipped her flag in salute to royalty there were angry cries of "Get out of the light!" and a peppery person was heard to storm: "How did those Germans know the King was here! Spies! Spies every one of them!"

To the Graf's commander the jeers sounded like cheers and he hung about for some time, flattered. At last the silver cigar slipped over to Cardington airship station, picked up her Senior Commander Dr. Hugo Eckener who had been visiting in the U. S. and had voyaged to England by boat (TIME, April 7).

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