The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1915. THE VANDALS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 17, 21 January 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1915. THE VANDALS.

The latest recorded act of cold-blooded savagery and brutal, violation of the. laws of civilised warfare, in the Zeppelin raid on defenceless towns in; Britain, ought to banish for »ver every consideration from the hearts of those who have been inclined make some allowances for those vandals and murderers who arc doing Wilhelm the Blood-stained's fiendishj work in Europe. If the Allies cared j to do so, it would be perfectly easy for them to cause tremendous havoc] great loss of life, and destruction of ( property, by bomb-dropping, on Ger-, man towns and cities. The greatport of Hamburg itself is reasonably accessible to airships, and in addition to out-classing altogether in number the aii-ships of the enemy, tbe aviators of the Allies may be quite reasonably expected to be at least as skilful in aerial manoeuvres. It is high time, in face of all the horrors committed by the German bandits, 1 that the Allies hardened their hearts and gave them back a little of their own. It is more than probable that, knowing the high spirit of generosity| which has always characterised France, Russia and England in war-' fare, these low-minded savages felt that they were safe from retaliation in kind for the wanton acts they are committing. Vermin ought to be ex- 1 terminated, and the greatest act of real humanity at this time would be one of terrific vengeance on these poo.l pie in repayment for their crimes. 1 Never yet since the Avar commenced can one single act he brought against the Allied forces of infringement of the rules of war, as agreed upon and laid down by the Hague Conference, while Germany has broken and utterly disregarded every rule and agreement. It is impossible that such a course of wickedness and treachery can prevail. Looked at from another standpoint, it may he that this last outrage on England, with its heavy loss of life and the attempt to wreck Royal residences, may do something to awaken the in. different and the shirkers to the fact that, even if they do not face their country's foe in battle, their miserable lives are in some danger. England, until this time, has known nothing of her real clanger, and democratic England nothing of war, but today it is a life and death struggle between two mighty Powers, and the

sympathies and hopes of the mass of civilised peoples are ever increasingly on the side of England and her Allies. The actual conflict has surely gone far enough to disabuse Germany of some, of the fatuous , ideas about the British Empire with which her | foolish wise men have beguiled the people for so long. With the everincreasing evidence of inhuman acts,] unthinkable even in warfare until perpetrated by German soldiers at their Kaiser's command, the world realises that it can never permit Prussia's! dream of world dominion —a dream not simply of material dominion, but of a spiritual one to make the Ger-j man mind and German eharac-l ter prevail throughout tlio| universe. Never while this old world exists will that be tolerated, for Germany's real self has been exposed to a horrified and shuddering civilisation.