ATOMIC BOMBING CONDEMNED

Southland Times, Issue 25748, 11 August 1945, Page 5

ATOMIC BOMBING CONDEMNED

Allies Accused Of Brutality

(Rec. 9 p.m.) LONDON, August 10. “The atomic bomb raids have made the Anglo-Saxons war criminals,” says the Stockholm newspaper Afton Bladet, in a leader. “Although Germany began bomb warfare against open towns and villages, the Anglo-Saxons have now beaten all records in this field. This experiment, with the entire population of a city as guinea pigs, reflects no martial glory on the authors.” The Lisbon newspaper Voz, says: “Even against pagans and even against the Japanese we believe that the use of the atomic bomb is much to be lamented. Is it really necessary to use such brutal means of destruction when the Japanese have already lost the war and only Japanese fanaticism prevents their surrender?” WORSE THAN GAS The Indian Nationalist newspaper, The Bombay Sentinel, states: “It is a tragedy that atomic energy should be used for the first time in history for such destructive purposes: This is worse than raining poison gas bombs. If the Allies are going to carry out their threat to obliterate Japan, then Japan has no alternative but to surrender and allow the two nations to extend their empires throughout the world in the name of white civilization.”