INDICTMENT.
" Persistence in her present methods," says the Morning Post, London, 'Svill enlist against Japanese the passionate condemnation of every observer whose heart is not deadened to all sense of humanity. This is no matter of mere squeamishness. We are all aware that an element of brutality is inseparable from the conduct of war, and the v exposure of non-combatants to unprovoked sulfering has been greatly increased by the development of the air weapon. But the civilised nations of the world have agreed among themselves upon certain rules of law designed io miniraise the dostruetiveness of that weapon, and to circumscrihe its use. Japan has offended not only against these laws, jsfi which ghe is a party, but against humanity itself."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 68, 13 December 1937, Page 6
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