Remembering Edinburgh's Zeppelin raids

A thought-provoking piece.
"On the night of Sunday April 2, 1916, two German Zeppelins hovered over Edinburgh and dropped dozens of bombs, killing 13 people and injuring another 24.
Those who died included a baby fast asleep in his cot in the Bonnington area, a four-year-old child in a St Leonard's tenement and six men killed when a bomb landed on the pavement in Marshall Street, Newington. The Germans had started using Zeppelin airships to carry out bombing raids on British towns and cities at the beginning of 1915, bringing terror to a civilian population which had previously been largely removed from active fighting. The huge hydrogen-filled aircraft were viewed as shadowy killers, raining fire and destruction from high in the night skies.
In the raid on Edinburgh that Sunday night, which lasted into the next day, one bomb exploded outside the White Hart hotel in the Grassmarket, killing one and injuring four; another hit a whisky bond in Commercial Street, Leith, setting it ablaze; and others landed near the Castle, in Holyrood Park and in the grounds of George Watson's College. Research in recent years has suggested the catalogue of deaths and damage may have been more extensive than acknowledged, with Leith Hospital among other targets.
The Evening News reported on the raid, but it was restricted in doing so because of a D-notice imposed by the Government after a raid on London in May the previous year which had claimed 28 lives. Although theoretically voluntary, the D-notice effectively banned papers from reporting which cities and towns had been hit. So, while the Evening News could describe some of the devastating damage done by the Zeppelins' bombs, it could not say it had happened in Edinburgh."
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