Petrol Bombs
SIR. —The sense of humanity is now so attenuated and so rarely operative that it may seem futile to protest against any of the minor barbarities of modern warfare. But I think there are still many people who will agree with me in deploring the present use of petrol jelly bombs by the United Nations Forces in Korea. These bombs were designed as incendiaries and were first used in the later raids on Tokyo. They are now being employed in attacking enemy troops from the air. The effect of such bombs is to cover men with a blazing adhesive material which cannot be removed, and to burn them to death. One has to remember that the United Nations is collectively responsible, in theory at any rate, for such practices. This may seem a small matter in comparison with the vaster outrages which are possible ; but small matters reveal the decay of great principles.—Yours
faithfully, C. E. VULLIAMY.
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