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In other words, aerial raids mn German industrial centres will

be regularly undertaken when there are not objects of superior military importance nearer at hard and when aeroplanes can be spared. To try to paralyse German industrialism is a legitimate military object. That non-combatants should be killed incidentally, or accidentally, when such places as munition works in civilian centres are bombed is inevitable, but General Smuts's words show clearly enough that he contemplates no policy of scattering bombs deliber- ately upon residential districts. The Germans may be sure, how- ever, that the more they conduct air raids with indiscriminate objectives, the more firmly we shall be resolved to carry the war, in the sense of General Smuts's speech, into their industrial centres.