BRITISH REPRISALS.

Evening Star, Issue 16663, 20 February 1918, Page 3

BRITISH REPRISALS.

AIR MINISTER'S STATEMENT. Lord Rothermore, the Air Minister, replying to'the toast of "The Health and Prosperity of the Air Services,'' at the dinner given in honor of the Prime Minister and the Flying Service at Gray's Inn in December, made a statement concerning air reprisals upon Germany. He said : ' At the Air Board we. ai-e wholeheartedly in favor of air reprisals. ' (Cheers.) It is out duty to avenge the murder of innocent women and children. As the. enemy elects, so it will be, the case of 'an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,' and in this respect we shall strive for complete and satisfying retaliation. (Prolonged cheers.) General Liulendorff proclaims the war a war of nations, suggesting that the civilian population is as much a mark for the airman's bombs as the fighting man. We detest these doctrines-, holding them to be grossly immoral. But. fighting for our lives and the lives of our women and children, we cannot and will not consent to their onesided application. We are determined that whatever outrages are committed on the civilian population of this country by a treacherous enemy will bo met by similar treattment upon his own people." (Loud cheers.)