REPRISALS FOR FRIGHTFULNESS.
[ CONAN DOYLE EMPHATIC. SUGGESTION TO AUTHORS- : ties. L * ™ ) Tho Tima; LONDON, May 27. (eßeceived May 28, at 7.30 p.m.) Sir A. Conan Doyle, in a letter to the press, writes : We should have shot ihree lea-ding German prisoners when frurso Cavell was murdered and two submarine co-nmanders for Captain Fryatt. German prisoners should be picketed* between hos- , pita] tents, and any captured bomber j should be executed "with notice that a bimilar fate awaits all those captured at such work. If the Germans attempt re- , orisals, let us have counter-reprisals sharp stern, i.nd relentless. Jf it must be war to the knife let it at least be equal to both parties. [The caMo noirs in thin lasue accredited to Tho j Times has app«»r»>'. in that journal, but 6nlr wb-re s,. «d is eueh news the editorial opinion of Hμ Timee.l
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17327, 29 May 1918, Page 5
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