But though at first one is inclined to be, as
the Daily Mail meantime to be, depressed lay this grim picture of 17,000 planes circling round one's devoted head, a little reflection will enable the householder to ask, almost without a break in his voice, whether it would not be wiser of the enemy to employ the 17,000 aeroplanes at the front in destroying our fighting forces rather than in killing non-com- batants here. Some 170,000 bombs dropped over General Haig's army would soon reduce it once more to contemptible proportions. The Daily Mail's last suggestion for keeping the Germans away is that we should follow their plan of dotting Karlsruhe with a number of French and British officer prisoners, including members of the Royal Flying Corps and our Naval Air Service. We are at once to abandon the practice of -keeping our German prisoners far from scenes of peril. Indeed, at this thought of practical reprisals the -Daily Mail indulges in an eloquent peroration : " In other words, English men, women, and children may be killed while Hun officers are ' food-hogging' in safety to the extent of their very capacious digestions."
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