WANTON MURDERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 December 1940, Page 5

WANTON MURDERS

COMMITTED BY GERMAN AIRMEN DEMAND FOR REPRISALS IN KIND. AGAIN RAISED TN BRITAIN. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, December 10. Though between 200 and 300 bombers in the raid on Sunday night unloaded their cargoes over - practically every borough of London, the experience and determination of the civil defence personnel reduced the casualties and damage far below those in the comparable attacks in September. The raids started a thousand fires, but with almost miraculous speed these disappeared before they had a chance of gaining a hold. The wantonness and brutality of the raid has given a fresh and wider impetus to the demand for reprisals in kind. The “Daily Mail” and “The Times” declare that Germany has dropped her last pretence of aiming at military targets. The “Daily Mail” says: “A point has been reached where we must ask whether our humane policy is encour aging the Germans -o bomb British civilians. If the answer is yes, then our own survival demands the bomb ing of the German populace to teach them that their foul game does not pay.” “The Times” says: “Such an indiscriminate night attack against a great city represents the lowest depth to which the art of war can fall. It was a typical example of destruction for destruction’s sake. Hitler has appaiently decided that any weapon even remotely affecting the British war elfort must be tried.”