LONDON AIR RAIDS

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 228, 26 September 1929, Page 7

LONDON AIR RAIDS

OPPOSED BY KAISER.

Consented After Karlsruhe Bombed By Allies.

GENERAL'S DISCLOSURE

( ln»tralian and N.Z. Press Association.)

(Received 11.30 a.m.)

LONDON, September 25. ifrior-General Ashmore, who has Ja in charge of London's air SXnce from 1917, gives an elaborate ration of London's weakness in deS °SeZ in a book "Air Defence," ™blished to-day The general conV?, "in is that the author does not Sieve that any defence force could Sent raiders from reaching LonE but suitable arrangements could made to inflict such casualties on the attackers' that attempts would die reveals that the ex-Kaiser refused to sanction air raids on London and !lv consented when the Allies raided f-L-uhe. He insisted that St. Paul's, Westminster Abbey and Buckingham pice should not be touched and the attacks confined to weekends when he thought the city would be emptyOn another occasion, when the King J. iniured on his horse in I ranee and Sen to a chateau near Aire, the ex££er insisted on elaborate precautions io prevent an air attack. He also forl°l a projected bomb attack on St. he heard King George va s likely to be there.