The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1915. REPRISALS NECESSARY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 17, 20 May 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1915. REPRISALS NECESSARY.

The announcement made yesterday by Lord Kitchener in the House of Lords that Britain and France had decided that their troops must be adequately protected against poisonous gases by the employment of similar methods to remove the enormous and unjustifiable disadvantage then existing, vill be received with relief by most people Though it is. and always will be, utterly repugnant to the Briton vo use any means of warfare other than fair open fighting, it lias to be remembered we are not dealing with honorable foes, but snakes, and we must treat them as snakes. The Allies cannot resort to anything like the foul deeds which Germany is guilty of, but she can, on occasion, kill murderers with their own weapons, and it would be simple. folly not to do so. When some fifteen hundred civilian passangers of the Lusitania were suddenly sent to death by a German pirate, anger, which 1 hitherto had been restrained, blazed out in every corner of the Empire at the cowardly criminal methods of barbarous warfare. Lord Derby recently: expressed the feelings of Britishers throughout the world when he declared that Britain no longer called for men to light an honorable foe, but to join for the purpose of hunting down and crushing once for all a race of cold-blooded murderers. The Allies are more than justified in putting into practice the full military doctrine of reprisals. Undoubtedly a victorious Germany would be a permanent disaster to the .whole civilised world, and the world is now awakened to that fact. Lord Kitchener wants three hundred thousand more recruits as speedily as possible: it„is for New Zealand to send her quota and her young men will not be backward in again offering their services, it has been very well said that the best, the most effective retaliation for the German scheme of "frightfulness" by land and sea is in the muster and training of more and more men and the supply <'>f more and more material to hasten the downfall of the Kaiser and his warmad brutal advisers with their false and wicked religion of bloodshed and oppression.