| Show foy War Allies Will Not Ret Retaliate liate 1 Today For German Robot Attacks By Dewitt Mackenzie Associated Press War ar Analyst Resumption of the indi indiscriminate nate bombing of oC civilians in Britain Britain Brit Brit- ain am by the this this time with the new range long rocket as announced by Prime Minister Churchill has Churchill has brought to my desk deskI I from Crom a It distinguished reader the I advocacy of retaliation In kind on German civilians Well VeIl its it's easy to understand the urge to retaliate against such diabolical practices That's human human human hu hu- hu- hu man nature However we mus must answer the question of whether it would be justifiable justiCiable Our reader read read- er justifies it with the claim that brute force is the only thing the Prussian mentality can understand under under- stand The German purpose in inflicting such a horror is Is as Mr Churchill Churchil says to attack civilian morale morale- and its it's solely for that purpose The nazis haven't invented any method of controlling these new weapons so that they can be confined confined confined con con- fined to military objectives These great foot 60 ton 15 rockets arc are shot 60 or 70 miles into the air to toland toland toland land willy The same lack lackor of or control characterized the rockets rocket's rockets rocket's rockets rocket's rock rock- ets et's predecessor the robot bomb To be sure both the rocket anc and the robot can be directed approximately approximately approximately at a target the size of London but while there are arc legitimate legitimate mate military objectives in the metropolis that doesn't excuse bombardment of oC nonmilitary sections sections sec sec- for the express purpose o 01 of killing kUling noncombatants It would be quite as justifiable justiCiable to employ poison gas gas and and a good sight more humane This new attack comes after several weeks of relief from rom the frightful rightful assaults with the robots Fortunately Mr Ir Churchill was able to say that the scale of the rocket attacks has not hitherto been significant and tl that a there Is no need to exaggerate erate the dan dan- danI I ger Unfortunately that couldn't be said of the rob robot t which is 15 also i known as the V 1 V for vengeance ven ven- vengeance the flying bomb and the buzz bomb Ive I've just viewed a new f film lm V 1 a a. British ministry of information in in- formation short formation short which will will be re released released re- re leased in America soon that graphically depicts actual scenes from rom the robot w warfare against civilians Its It's a thrilling but shockIng shocking shocking shock shock- ing story The German attack lasted 80 days from mid-June mid until the end endor of or August It t was centered in southern England and London bore the brunt of it More than people were killed or dr r Injured in injured In- In over houses were destroyed or dama damaged ed The Boche launched some robots and about 2300 got through to the London London London Lon Lon- don region But the British h stood up tip to this new terror as as' they did against the i awful German air bombardment early in the war They weakened not one whit six Forty-six per c cent nt of the robots were brought down by the combined efforts of guns fighter planes and balloons And finally the raids were halted t through rough i intense tense bombardment of the nazi launching g sites and experimental experimental experimental ex ex- stations by the United States and British air forces Now the nazis are arc at it again with their new V 2 weapon should the allies try to halt this by re retaliating retaliating retaliating re- re on German civilians Since its it's the British who are being being being be be- ing bombed Ill I'll let the thc answer come from one of oC them them Brig Gen Horace Sewell the military com com- He says The allies' allies sole aim at present is to win the war as quickly as possible by defeating the German i forces on the ground and in the air Destruction of German industries industries indus indus- tries organizations system of communications and military Installations In Installations in- in is an essential step in in bringing about the tho military defeat o of Germany but indiscriminate raids on German cities for tor the sole purpose of or lowering the morale of or orthe the civilian population is not justifiable justifiable justifiable jus jus- and therefore will not be adopted by any ny o of the united nations na na- |
