Frederick Kellaway Support Air Raid Reprisals
- jimgrundyrule303
- Jun 29, 2016
- 1 min read
The Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Munitions, Frederick Kellaway, believed that air raids would cease if a German town was attacked every time there was a raid on a British town.
“AIR REPRISALS JUSTIFIED.
“MR. F. KELLAWAY SAYS THEY HAVE QUICK EFFECT.
“No good purpose,” said Mr. F. G. Kellaway, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions,' at Birmingham last evening [28th June 1917], ”is served by screaming about German atrocities.
“I believe, however, that if we could systematically and immediately raid German towns every time that a raid is made on British towns and villages, public opinion in Germany would speedily compel the German Government to abandon this senseless and brutal form of warfare.
“If the British Army possessed sufficient aeroplanes for use on the western front, and for protective purposes at home, and had any to spare for raiding German towns, I would not hesitate to use them for this purpose.
“I believe the conscience of the civilised world would justify us in doing so.”
'Nottingham Evening Post', 29th June 1917.