QUESTION OF REPRISALS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 244, 2 December 1940, Page 2

QUESTION OF REPRISALS

GERMANY'S INDISCRIMINATE BOMBING R A.F.'S OPPOSING TACTICS On the plane of sentiment there is much to be said for the deter-* mination of the Government to resist demands for vengeance raids on Germany, commonly called reprisals, says the Manchester Guardian. The points made by the Secretary of State for Air- are a complete answer on the more important plane of intelligence. Using a homely metaphor, which will readily appeal to the sport-loving nation that we are, he observed that • "in a slogging match the big fellow is sure to win," and that to indiscriminate bombing of the kind to which London is being treated there is no end. j The winner in a light is the man who puts intelligence against brute strength. That is, in a nutshell, I what our R.A.'F. Bomber Command is doing. If Hitler, having failed utteily to destroy British air-powsr or sea supremacy, is reaching out, in characteristic fashion, to try to produce a collapse from within, we, too, are reaching out —but to destroy the centres of Germany's might. And our pilots, being better trained and having the advantage of better machines, are able to fly low and rely on hitting their targets with deadly accuracy, instead of cruising about at a height of 20, - 000 or 25,000 feet, from which precision of aim is impossible.