London, Feb. 14.
Loud cheerings broke out in the House of Commons this afternoon when Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, declared that although German airmen bomb and machinegun unarmed British seamen, British ships will continue to rescue any German they may see adrift at sea "Ordinary instincts of humanity require the rescue," he stated to cheers, "of drowning men or castaways should they be observed by British ships in the course of their duties." (More loud cheers).
Mr. Churchill made the statement in reply to a question from labourite J. C. Edgewood, of Newcastle-under-Lyme, who asked whether British authorities would stop sending ships out to rescue German airmen shot down at sea in view of repeated aerial attacks on British vessels.
The First Lord also revealed that "considerable measures" will be taken very shortly in dangerous zones to protect trading ships—Havas.
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