THE BOMBING OF LONDON

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20833, 27 September 1929, Page 9

THE BOMBING OF LONDON

GERMAN RAIDS DURING WAR. FROWNED ON BY EX-KAISER. —: — (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, September 25. Major-general .Ashmore, who was in charge of London’s air defences from 1917, gives an elaborate description of London’s air defence weakness in his book, “ Air Defence,” published to-day. The General, in conclusion, states that he does not believe that any defence force could prevent raiders from reaching London, but suitable arrangements could be made against tlie attacker, resulting m such casualties that attempts would die out. The book reveals that the ex-Kaiser refused to sanction air raids bn London, and-only consented when the Allies‘raided' Karlsruhe. He insisted on St. Paul’s, Westminster Abbey, and Buckingham Palace not being touched. He wanted the attacks confined during the weekends when it was thought that the city would be empty. On another occasion, when the King was injured by a fall from his horse in France and taken to a chateau near Aix, the ex-Kaiser insisted on elaborate precautions to prevent an air attack. He-also forbade a projected bomb attack on St. Omer because he heard that King George was likely to be there,—Australian Press Association.