26 SEPTEMBER 1941, Page 14

BOMBING POLICY

Sm,—Your correspondent " Target " would persuade us that Britain is to blame for the horrors of night-bombing. This is bad enough. It is almost incredible that anyone can be so childish as to suppose that a " no bombing " compact with Hitler, made either before the war or since, could have been of the smallest value to anyone in the world—except, of course, Hitler and his country.

Luckily for us we did not make any such pact, for we should have kept it ; and we should have received just what we deserved for such folly, and should now be poiverless to give Germany the only answer she can or could understand.—I am, yours truly,

Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. E. W. E. KEMPSON.