HUN "FRIGHTFULNESS."

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13973, 20 April 1916, Page 3

HUN "FRIGHTFULNESS."

CRIME IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF . OERTAIN DEFEAT. Every fresh instance of aerial attack on undefended towns, where the victims '.must alwajys bo ' non-combatant b and. usually are < helpless -women and innocent is now euphemised and classiif^ed> by. the Huns as mere "reprisals," "says a leading article m. the ' New. York' Herald. But let us make no mistake. These are^not reprisals, but slaughter, piracy, murder, fouler even than any perpetrated m tHe days of the Jolly Koger by the buccaneers, who at least permitted their captives m the last resort to vralk_ the .plank seaward. O ■ .War is, of course, war, winch spells hell and horrors, but at its worst some amenities for the weak and helpless and urijfit were safeguarded. Bit not with fch^i Teutons and their allies.' In a madneSs multiplied by the knowledge of sui'e German defeat these assaults can intend, nothing more than ait effort to engender "frightfulness." That has long been discounted. In the end, however, it will have to be (paid for, not by the nose, which would be as mild a return aa : ditch water, but by a bloodletting, that will leaVe the allied Huns as they have tried to leave les autoes, white and nerveless for years. -' ' ■• The same journal,' discussing the air raids on Paiisv says :— It is the same Sickening story of the Zeppelin over London. Non-com-batants, women and children included, murdered iand maimed — no military advantage—just '-frightfulness," and done by a military organisation which decries barbarism m wax ! .