In a debate in the Lords on Tuesday on air
raid• warnings and reprisals,. Lord Derby, replying for the Government, said that they were doing all they could to meet Lord French's demands for aircraft. They could not, however, meet them all, and it would be doing exactly what the Germans wanted if we deprived our battlefronts of aeroplanes in order to lock them up for raids which might never come off. He had the authority of the head of the Flying Corps in France for saying that for every bomb dropped behind our lines we dropped a hundred behind the enemy's. This was done with a dis- tinct military object and objective, and he asserted with the general approval of the House that we were not going to try to imitate the German in his brutality, and that the idea of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth in the way of massacring women and children was absolutely repugnant to the nation.
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