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Show I DROPPING BOMBS ON A CITY. Those aerial raids of the Germans, directed against cities In the wat zoi.e, should be condemned by 'he :ulea cf civilized warfare. To us the; appear devoid of any merit ,'rcm r, military ro'ri r view and. otherwise they are Indefensible. So far the to-tal to-tal results of these excursions by aviators have been the maiming an I killing cf innocent non-combatants r.in, women and children. Primarily, no doubt, they were intended in-tended as a means of over-awing the enemy, but the day has gone by when acts of that kind can havo any other of-.ect on tho attacked than to cause them to morn determinedly fight on. Airmen have their place in recon-noiterlng recon-noiterlng and, as a diversion of doubt ful value, they aro legitimately free to drop bombs on the enemy's army, but they perforin a most Inglorious part in Indiscriminately dropping their explosives in u city where the inhabitants are principally women and children, the men having gone to the front. |