The Press of the United States, as we felt sure
would be the case, has denounced the raid and its deliberate attack on non-combatants in the sternest terms. The Americans have always been fierce fighters, but in the fiercest struggles of the civil War they-never-killed for the sake of killitig. The New York Times declares that the raid was specially made against the King and Queen. "The intention was to kilt them if possible." It is a species of warfare, it add., that may ultimately "array all decent and civilized elements against whoever indulges in it." That the King as a soldier would fully admit the right of the enemy to attack and, if they can, kill him goes, of course, without saying. The attack on helpless villages merely because they are on the Royal estate, and were, we must presume, mistaken for Sandringham, must have been particularly painful to both their Majesties.
