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Show I I i " I Reprisal for Confiscation of I I ' 400 German Merchant I Ships Is Planned. I I' KILL WITHOUT MERCY I I Consider Pity an Unpardon- I able Feeling Sentiment I in War Time Stupid. AMSTERDAM, Fob. 16. (By mail.) i The destruction of 400 English towns by German airplanes is demanded by thfl Berlin Tages Zoitung as a re- prisal for tho iclion of the allies in H confiscating 400 German merchant H ships. , , . ., In a long article on the subject tho H paper says: "If -we aro in a position to destroy H; the whole of London it would bo more T humane to do so than to allow one H moro German to bleed to death on the H ' battlefield. To hesitate, or to sur- ' render ourselves to feelings of pity ' 1 would bo unpardonable. j "More than 400 merchant ships have H " been stolen from us by Great Britain. H'j , Our answer should bo tliat for every ' L German ship at least one English town I J j should bo reduced to ruins by our air- H fl I men. Far better wero it for us that I y i Great Britain, France and the United I Stages should call us barbarians than I1: I they should bestow on us 'their pity Is I . when wo aro beaten. Softness and I j , sentimentality are stupid in wartime." I - I on |