BOMBED FROM THE AIR
INDIAN BORDER VILLAGE NO SIGN OF TRIBESMEN. CALCUTTA, August 2. The Royal Air Force planes ’again bombed Kotkai. There was no sign of hostile forces from the air, nor was there any offer of surrender of the three seditionists. LABOUR LEADER’S PROTEST. “THIS OUTRAGE AGAINST GOD.” LONDON, August 2. The bombing of Kotkai has revived the controversy over Britain’s .Disarmament Conference reservation of the right to bomb tribesmen. Mr G. Lansbury (Labour lender), in a letter to The Times, declares that it will be an everlasting shame to all the “ Christian churches unless they repudiate this outrage against God and humanity.” The News-Chronicle says: “If it is morally right to bomb Kotkai it cannot be morally wrong to bomb London. It is not worth risking the bombardment of London in order to retain the privilege of bombing Kotkai.” The Daily Herald (Labour) denounces the revolting and brutal exercise of aerial power which does not discriminate between the guilty and the guiltless.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22023, 4 August 1933, Page 9
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