BOMBING RESUMED
KOTKAI THE TARGET. STRONG PROTESTS VOICED. CONTROVERSY IN LONDON. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received August 3, 9.30 a.m.) CALCUTTA, August 2. The Royal Air Force planes again bombed Kotkai. There was no sign Of hostile forces from the air and no offer for the' surrender of the three seditionists has been forthcoming. LONDON, August 2. The bombing of Kotkai has revived the controversy over Britain’s disarmament 'conference reservation of the right to bomb tribesmen. Mr G. Lansbury (Leader of the Opposition), in a letter to the Times declares: “It will be an everlasting shame to all Christian Churches unless"they repudiate the outrage against God and humanity.” The Chronicle says: r ‘ It it Is morally right to bomb Kotkai. it cannot be morally wrong to bomb London. It is not worth risking the bombardment of London in order to retain the privilege of bombing Kotkai.” The Herald denounces the revolting brutal exercise of aerial power, which does not discriminate between the guilty and the guiltless.
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Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19014, 3 August 1933, Page 7
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