FIGHTING CHIVALRY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24400, 11 September 1940, Page 8

FIGHTING CHIVALRY

“ SITTING BIRD INSANITY •*. A NEWSPAPERS CRITICISM x LONDON, Aug. 30. An example of the present British feelings toward Germans is provided by the Sunday Dispatch, which, in an article headed “ Sitting Bird Insanity.;: , calls attention to an Air Ministry communique. '■ -*v This relates that a Coastal; Command r Hudsop^aircraft 1 plane resting ph the seat have been an * easy prey,” the communique states, “but the British crew thought it ■ would be unsporting to attack a sitting bird. So the Hudson, with its headlights blazing, twice dived toward the Heinkel. which finady accepted the challenge to fight and was destroyed.” “ , The Sunday Dispatch says; Suun tradition is sheer insanity m this war. Forty million Britons, the majority Whom do not care at all fo . r JJj® j quette of pheasant-shooting, know that we must fight the war grimly, relentlessly, and even unscrupulously - “-They do not criticise the h&narm of airmen whose peace-time ifistincts erred, but they ask whether the Air Ministry .approves of British pilo.s inviting the Gerrnans fp’shqot first-