FRIDAY'S RAID ON LONDON.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVII, Issue 9127, 24 October 1917, Page 5

FRIDAY'S RAID ON LONDON.

MOTION IN' 1' THE " COMMONS.

PRESS COMMENT •ON REPRISAL

RAIDS

(Keceired Oct. 24. 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. ' 23. ' tn the Uoumj of Commons, critics <*£ ' the' London air defences moved the ad-

journment in order to discttsS Friday's' raid. - t Mr Cbambeilain and Admiral Meux advised *the House to make short work of the motion.' ' Mr Bonar Law said- Ke refused to help Germany by giving particulars of our methods o. uei'endiug London. O£ the Vtiole squadron,of <Zeppelins/ only one came over London. The Air Service's view wa& that the mist did not save London, bub wived the Zeppelins. ' If the German* ever smiled at our way of conducting the war, they would have •a happy time over the British House of Commons stopping business to mako this fuss over the greatest air defeat Germany had ,'evfeV suffered.;' Two-raids Upon German towns ;\vith large popular tions had already, taken, place: Thi* • was -what- had happened owing to the pressure ot one or ow-o members of the House of Commons and' the pressure of the newspapers to,.tind out what w« were going to elo. It was a fact that the Germans, wlib knew the only quarters whence \ aids cditlcl take place, had soot flyiug squ-aclrdns t to await '.our «.yers 3 and then thoy \yere ready to receive our- men. < ' .

The motion was-withdrawn. ...Tlio " Daily Express " comments*: — "If,bombing towns-40 ■ miles over the border is what the" Government menus, by tombing. German.towns, it is not what the public mean..." The /Govern-, monts statemeut lia«. T Xsrt«atcd.i wide- •• spread astonishment, £b the continuetl Hack oT action is v , causing widespread discontent.'" •., , l •