"A DOUBLE DOSE"
REPRISALS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY. EMPHATIC REMARKS OF - MINIS- , , TER OF DEFENCE. "We aro now going through ;i time of trial—the greatest .time of trial the Empire lias ever liad to undergo," remarked Sir James Allen at the konourn board unveiling ceremony at Karori on : Monday evening. "We tire enduring sufferings as the British people know how to endure them. We were unready when the war broke out, as very often we had been unready before when w ara have broken out; but we set our toctli, anil determined to got ready as rapidly as possible. "Thank goodness we have been given time. And to-day the 'prospects are bright. I do not think* Nanybody now has doubt in his or her mind that we now know what tho end will" be with certainty. (Applause.) "There are those who have been ■ talking about peace." Wo all desiro' peace; but we do iiot desire peace which will make the- sacrifices which those lads have made of no use to us. We British people were determined at the start to play the game. As the Mayor had said, we had t ; o, rcfailate; it was against our nature and constitution, and we liaOr to So It for our own gafoty. And when the Briton has to adopt retaliation I hope that he does so promptly and thoroughly. In the early stages of the war we were not in a position to.use our aeroplanes as we are using them to-day. Wo were unready; but we were getting ready. Arid now that our American brothers have come in, we shall be-all tho more ready; and I hope within tho next few months we shall teach the Germans a lesson by way of reprisals that they will never forget. If they enter on barbarities and force us to adppt reprisals it is not because wo like doing so, but because we have to do so for* our own safety. When we enter upon such a course—forced upon us by their action—l hope we'will . do it thoroughly, and let them know that if they practice such barbarities _ we will .take reprisals, and give them' a dose of their own medicine—a double dose."
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 21 September 1918, Page 1
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