DEFENCE AGAINST AIR RAIDS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 10 July 1917, Page 7

DEFENCE AGAINST AIR RAIDS.

HOT NEWSPAPER DISCUSSION

(Received July 10, 1.10 p.m.) 'LONDON, July 9. The newspapers are hotly debating means of countering air raids on London. All agree that the defences are lamentably wanting and many demand active reprisals. Mr Bernard Snell, chairman of the Congregational Union, preaching at Brixton, advocated reprisals. The Daily Chronicle is urging caution, and says that an unarguable objection to reprisals is the geographical one. No German towns of the first or second rank are open to -British aeroplane attack, but enemy aeroplanes cannot be permitted to hover, over London picking their targets, The defences must be strengthened even at the deplorable cost of limiting Sir Douglas Haig's resources.