HUN BRUTALITY

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 40, 15 August 1918, Page 2

HUN BRUTALITY

BRITAIN'S' NERVELESS POLICY!

We have had such a chapter of Gervtnan horrors' during recent days (writes the London correspondent of Melbourne Argus) that a cry is going up on all sides for retribution and reprisals. In this country public indignation is slow to move, but it i 6 rising to a. lernient.. The Duke of Portland, once a personal friend of the Kaiser and his brother, Prince Henry, voices widespread opinion whan he says : "One may as well try to make peace with mad dogs as with these Germans. Peace can only be concluded with savages when they have been brought to realise by their own sufferings that acts of barbarism do not pay. The sooner that realisation is forced 011 the Germans the better for the civilised world."

Sir A. Conan Doyle states : "It \e our nerveless policy which exposes us to the outrages of the Huns. They will do what they think they can do with impunity, and avoid that which entails punishment. When Miss Cavoll was shot we should at orico have shot three leading prisoners. When Captaiii Fryat-t was murdered we should at once have executed two submarine captains. These are the- arguments which the German mentality can understand." There is confirmation in Sir Arthur's views respecting the German.fear of reprisals in some of the .events of Che .past fortnight. There has been very heavy bombing of Cologne and other Rhine-land towns by British and French airmen. The people in come of those towns are now appealing to Berlin to endeavour to arrange with this 'country for the cessation of the bombardments. German airmen have been thoroughly beaten by both French and British; the Germans are now squealing to avoid the consequences of their own precedent. On this subject our Seamen and Firemen's Union, whose members have suffered more than any other class from U-boat barbarism, have decided to boycott all German sailors, and never let them work on a British ship. Tho union is adding a month to the boycott for every fresh U-boat crimo. Already the period runs into five years and eight months, post-war, before the boycott will be raised.