JOHN BULL’S SOFTNESS.
Referring to the air raids on England, Sir Joseph Ward says that one of the greatest weaknesses of the responsible men of the Old Country, is that they were too generous. “I say now, as I said in the Old Country, that they have been too generous. If you have a foe ready to drop bombs over your wives and children, is it not a proper doctrine, whether it is taught in the gospels or not, is a matter of justice to the women and children that we should have had reprisals long ago to protect our women and children? It is no time for the silken glove when the enemy is fighting as hard as he can with bare fists and bare knuckles. Horrible as it is to contemplate, and anxious as we are all of us not to behave otherwise than as Christians ought to behave, if you are fighting with demons then you have to fight them with the same weapons they use themselves.
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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 23 July 1917, Page 6
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170JOHN BULL’S SOFTNESS. Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 23 July 1917, Page 6
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