METHODS OF BRUTALITY.

Northern Advocate, 8 May 1915, Page 2

REPRISALS URGED. CONFISCATION OF PROPERTY. (Press Assn.—Reed. 10 p.m.) LONDON, May ti. Lord Robert Cecil, in the House of Commons, quoted letters from British officers bitterly complaining of their treatment in Germany, under the reprisals ordered by the Government and the Kaiser. The writers were encouraged by the German officials to relate their experiences. Lord Cecil hoped that Mr Asquirh would persist in his intention to exact reparation at the end of the war, however high-placed the criminal. Mr Asquith reiterated his previous pledge. Mr Bonar Law, referring to the Germau methods of warfare, hoped that we should disregard any convention preventing us from effectivelydealing with enemies showing no respect to conventions of any kind. We might, without loss of national dignit)-, reverse the policy of the submarines. If everything else failed to bring redress we might confiscate all the German property within the Empire.