Her Justification for U-Boat Warfare and Air Raids on London London, May 19.
According to the Reichstag Com. mittee, whose report was issued to-day' after a seven-year inquiry, into breaches of international war Jaw, U-Boat warfare was justified a3 reprisal against "the illegal] British blockade." Gas was also legal and air-raids on London are Jdefended on the ground that ar-serials were situated there and ie the vicinity of the capital. Moreover, the report says, the raids occurred "on Sundays' or in the night-time when the city was empty of its population."
report expresses the opinion that a policy of reprisals was mainly responsible for violations of international law. It says that prisoners of war were not treated by any army in accordance with the law.
The Committee was divided s regards the deportation of 70,000 Belgian workers, but found that the armed resistance of Belgian civilians did not accord with the Hague Convention.
Another committee is examining] the question of violation of Belgian lity. Reuter.
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