THE AIR RAID ON ENGLAND.
LONDON RAID IjOSSES. *“ - * X A COMPARISON. ["reutkr’s”- telegram.] LONDON, October 3. The Press Bureau in order to .enable the public to view the raids in a just proportion, announces that 48< people were killed and 14,104 injured by traffic accidents in London during the nine months of 1917, compared with 191 people were killed and 749 wounded by aeroplane raids. DEMAND FOR REPRISALS. LONDON October 3. Most newspapers emphatically demand aerial retaliation on German towns. They .stress Air. Lloyd George’s remark:' ‘* We shall bomb Germany with compound interest.” Public opinion has manifested in various ways a display of growing anger at the delay in striking back. A meeting of Lord Alayors has been convened to press on the Government the publib demand for retaliation.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 October 1917, Page 2
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