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AIR POLICE CONTROVERSY RIGHT TO BOMB TRIBESMEN APPLICATION TO LONDON “MORAL RIGHTS” PARALLEL " BRITISH PRESS CRITICISMS i. • z'_ By Telegraph-Press Copyright. London, August 2. The bombing of the village of Kotkai on the north-west frontier of India by Royal Air Force planes has revived the controversy over Britain’s reservation at the Disarmament Conference of the right to bomb tribesmen.
Mr. George Lansbury, Labour leader, in a letter to The Times declares there will be everlasting shame on all Christian churches unless they repudiate the outrage against God and humanity. “If it is morally right to bomb Kotkai it cannot be morally wrong to bomb says the News-Chronicle. “It is not worth risking a bombardment of London in order to retain the privilege of bombing Kotkai.” The Daily Herald denounces the “revolting and brutal exercise of aerial power, which does not discriminate between the guilty and the guiltless.” A Calcutta message states that. Air Force planes again bombed Kotkai today. There were no signs of hostile forces from the air, nor was there any offer to surrender the three seditionists held by the Khan of Khar. The planes yesterday were heavily fired on by riflemen, but without casualty. The Khan has refused to hand over the three agitators who are known to be sheltering. 1
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 August 1933, Page 7
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