Here we must unfortunately return to the Daily Mail again
and say a word about the wild and wavering campaign which it seems to be conducting in regard to something vaguely called reprisals. A good deal of this howling for reprisals is childish and unimportant. On Friday week, however, the Daily Mail pub- lished a letter on the subject of so monstrous a character that we feel bound to deal with it.. This is what a correspondent signing himself " Anti-Zepp." was allowed to say in the middle of one of the most prominent columns of the paper ; " Sut,—Do we want to stop these Zeppelin raids ? If we do, here is a remedy. Let the Government announce that for every English civilian killed one German officer in our custody shall-be taken to the Towor and shot ; for every woman killed, two shot ; for every child killed, three shot—not tortured, just humanely shot. We should hit at the class we arc fighting against, and strike terror into traitor Germans here in high places and, above all, strike at the class who are out to exterminate us. It is a mode they would understand."
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