When a Messerschmidt was shot down into the Channel near Folkstone the wounded pilot extricated himself from his machine. A British officer on the breakwater quickly stripped off his jacket, dived into the sea, swam 300 yards to him, and brought him safely to shore. The German pilot had a fractured ankle and bullet wounds. Late last Friday night while a British evacuation vessel was carrying over 400 passengers, including children en route for Canada she was torpedoed by a German submarine, in a strong gale and without warning. Eighty-five children died. The first a story of gallant chivalry, the second the tale of the hideous brutality which' has characterized the German conduct of this war. The Germans seek to deny that it was one of their submarines but suggest, that a mine was responsible and according to one German paper:—
"In any case the responsibility remains w the -British Government. Whoever dares to send children through a blockade zone on ah armed ship makes himself guilty of the murder of these children in advance."
The answer to this piece of Teutonic stupidity is to quote the "Berliner Lokalanzeller" "German retaliation consists of one word: annihilation." That infers a lot of others, indiscriminate bombing for one in which the lives of women and children are wilfully imperilled, and from which it was sought to save them. The guilt for the deaths of. these mites rests entirely upon those people, who by their dastardly, and cowardly behaviour make it necessary to endeavour to remove them out of harm's way if at all possible, Let-there: be-no doubt
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