The German news agency recently made much ado about the recently announced British secret weapon described as a self-igniting leaf of celluloid which is reported to have proved. exceptionally efficient in starting fires in German forests where military objectives, such às munition dumps and factories are concealed. Of course the usual story is told of civilians being injured, and small farms and the like set afire. That is to some extent inevitable. But it is no reason why the British should be expected to refrain from using them. The destruction of places where the enemy can conceal war material is clearly justified and if it does happen that an occasional civilian is harmed, much as it may be regretted, it by no means compares with the damage to life and limb which the German bombers have been wreaking with complete indiscrimination. If this new weapon is indeed effective, then that need be the only justification for its use. The more German forests that are burned down, the more the enemy is hurt militarily and economically, and that is all that really matters in this very totalitarian war.
Great satisfaction is generally felt that the British are giving Berliners a taste of
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