13 OCTOBER 1917, Page 1
General Smuts made an important speech on Thursday week, when
he dealt largely with air policy. The German practice of striking at Great Britain through its non-combatants, he said, would prove a terrible bootherang. " It is not the people of this country that will be to hiatus for any further intensification of the horrors of war. . . We are dealing with an enemy whose Kultur has not carried him beyond the rudiments of the ?doable Law, and to whom you can only apply the maxim An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.' On that principle we are most reluctantly forced to apply to him the bombing policy which he has applied to us. I am afraid the Government has no longer any choice in the matter."
