.. We should like to register our protest against the
preposterous article on the raid published by the Daily Mail of Wednesday from the pen of Mr. Pemberton.Billing. A more ridiculous piece of injurious and inflammatory balderdash we never- remember to have read. Its, publication reflects as little :credit inein those who published. it as upon the nipar who wrote. it. This is the kind of rhetorical rubbish in which Mr. Pemberton- Billing indulges: " The centre of the mightiest Empire the world has ever known lies huddled and impotent." That may possibly describe the position of Mr. Pemberton-Billing on the night in question, but it certainly does not represent the attitude even of that part of England which was aware of the raid. He then goes on to demand, in the best " Nous sommcs trahis 1 " -vein, that retribution short and sharp shall overtake those who are responsible. " England has been deceived, its citizens gulled. The truth Las been withheld because the truth would have meant an end to the parasites and satellites of the Service and the Government alike."
