REPRISALS ENDORSED
LORD CURZON REPLIES.
(The Times.) Received May 4, 9.15 a.m. LONDON, May 3
In the House of Lords Lord Curzon, replying to Lord Charles Beresford's protests against reprisals, said the Imperial War Cabinet and the French Government endorsed the policy. The French had now decided to embark German prisoners on their hospital ships. "Despite reprisals," he said, "we would emerge from the war with unstained hands, because some form of reprisals is justified where there is a possible chance of the enemy being prevented from repeating their crimes. If Germany will promise to refrain from attacks on hospital ships Britain will abandon reprisals."
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Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13475, 4 May 1917, Page 5
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