AIR TERRORISM

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 September 1939, Page 6

AIR TERRORISM

BRITISH PRIME MINISTER DENOUNCES GERMANY POSITION OF THE ALLIES. DETERMINATION TO REMOVE MENACE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) The announcement from the Fuehrer’s headquarters of an intention to bomb open towns in Poland in defiance of international law and of Herr Hitler’s own solemn undertaking has roused a feeling of horror in Britain, which Press reports indicate is shared by civilised countries throughout the world. The “Daily Telegraph” says: “For once Hitler is frank. The German armies’ adherence to the rules of civilised warfare lasted for less than a fortnight.” Mr Chamberlain, in the House of Commons, after endorsing Lord Halifax’s statement that the restrictions which Britain and France proposed to observe were based on similar restraint being shown by the enemy, added: “Whatever may be the lengths to which others may go, Britain will never resort to a deliberate attack on women, children and other civilians fop the purpose of mere terrorism. If action of the kind suggested in the German announcement is taken, it will inevitably further strengthen the resolve of ourselves and our Allies so to conduct oui' policy and so to prosecute the war as to ensure that the menace we are fighting, of which this threat may be another manifestation, is finally removed.” Mr Chamberlain’s statement that Britain would never resort to deliberate attacks on women, children and other civilians for the mere purpose of spreading terrorism was greeted with cheers. Mr Chamberlain added: “In the meantime, we must remember that our strategy and tactics must at all stages be governed by one consideration and one only—namely, the most effective prosecution of the war.” POISON GAS GERMAN NOTIFICATION. HITLER’S PROMISE REGARDING ' BOMBING. , (Received This Day, 12.30 a.m.) LONDON. September 14. Viscount Halifax in the House of Lords said Germany notified Britain that she intended to observe throughout the war the prohibition concerning the use of poisonous gas, asphyxiating gas and bacteriological methods of warfare, which formed the subject of the Geneva Protocol of 1925. Germany reserved full liberty of action in the event of the provisions of the protocol being infringed by the enemy. Lord Halifax added added that Herr Hitler, in reply to President Roosevelt’s appeal, had said he would refrain’ from bombing non-military objectives under all circumstances.