QUESTION OF REPRISALS

Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13475, 4 May 1917, Page 5

QUESTION OF REPRISALS

CQNDEMNED BY THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. NATION MUST RETAIN ITS HONOUR AND CLEAN HANDS. JUSTIFIED AS THE ONLY ARGUMENT THE GERMANS UNDERSTAND. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Received May 3, 10.30 p.m. LONDON, May 3. In the House of Lords the Archbishop of Canterbury strongly protested against a policy of reprisals, including that against Freiburg. He said the country was prepared to prosecute the war with all power and every sacrifice, but meant to emerge from the war with untaintea honour and with clean hands. Baron Buckmaster, the Bishop of Winchester, Lords Selborne, Loreburn and Parmoor disapproved of the reprisals on the ground of the danger that we would sink to the level of the Germans. Lord Curzon, Lord-President of the Council, justified the Government's action. The Germans, he said, were peculiarly open to tlijs. argument, and squealed like babies under reprisals. As some evidence that they had a salutary effect, only oue hospital ship had been attacked since Freiburg was bombed. The subject then dropped.