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Show LONDON PEOPLE FURIOUS OVER THE AIR RAID London, July 8. An Intensified demand for reprisals has followed tho air raid of yesterday. All tho Sunday nowspapera doclaro tho people peo-ple of London are furious at tho Inadequacy In-adequacy of the city's defenso as it was revealed yesterday. Tho Sunday Times says the' crying need of 1917 Is for airplaues&aB It was for shells In 1915, and declares tho government must bo compelled' to reallzo that tho airplane will be tho ultimate nnd deciding factor of tho war. It Insists that thousands muBt bo built to carry tho war Into enemy territory. An aviation expert ex-pert Bays In an nrtlclo In tho Times: "There In n huge output to bo hnd from America if our now ally will consent to accept ready-made designs from Europo nnd not Insist on wanting want-ing to do her own experimenting.1' Lloyd's News, nlso demanding creator nlrplano production, says: "Tho raiders yesterday camo at their leisure and bombed nt their leisure Tholr flight over London was bo slow that It looked llko a parade. pa-rade. They scorned to desplso our defenses." Kennedy Jones, director of food economy, speaking at Muswoll hill, a suburb of London, said there must bo no more shilly-shallying with tho question of reprisals and disquieting disquiet-ing reports that Lord French Is hampered ham-pered In tho discharge of his duties by other departments must bo disposed dis-posed of onco and for all. |