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JUNE 21, T917 Reproduced by special permission of the Italian Government. FROM "THE WAR IN ITALY."—An Italian Nieuport biplane as seen from the front. headline " Flight of the English Government from London," of a Dutch telegram stating that the English Government is seriously entertaining the intention of removing the seat of Government away from London owing to the continual German aeroplane attacks. IT is a quaint sequiter which the Cologne Gazette draws, in the following comment upon the attack :—• " Even from the tearful and distorted English report it can be recognised that this attack on London was one of the heaviest which ever took place, and that, consequently, also the military damage, which the English naturally keep secret, must have been tremendous." IF the rest of the " facts " upon which the German press and public are spoon-fed, concerning the results of their piractical adventures are of the same calibre, no wonder they are induced by the Junkers to hold on with heroic fortitude and desperation to the hope—or as it appears to them, the certainty—of the early physical, moral and economic collapse of muchly Gott-strafed England. WARNINGS ; to be, or not to be ? IF the Lord Mayor, without proper Government authority, does have the bells of St. Paul's rung as a raid warning to the people of the City, we wonder how he will reconcile his legal duties as Chief Magistrate and as Citizen. There are some funny little clauses buried in all sorts of odd corners of the Defence of the Realm Act. QUEEN ALEXANDRA is, as usual, to the fore where realdistress exists. Her Majesty's name for ^100 was one of the first to go down on the Lord Mayor's Fund for relief to thosesuffering by the raid. MANY a worse form of reprisal might be indulged in than that suggested by a " City Merchant," a correspondentgof the Observer. His contribution to the reprisal campaign is as follows:— " If business is to be carried on effectively in,the City it must be protected from disturbance by frequent air raids. As a practical proposal the City suggests that the Government take the top floor of Liverpool Street Hotel, Cannon Street Hotel, and other prominent hotels in the neighbourhood of the City and convert them into temporary prisons for the n German officers who are now at Donington Hall." m_i WHY not ? There are one or two quite nice young Huns amongst the Donington incarcerated. Reproduced by special permission of the Italian Government. FROM "THE WAR IN ITALY."—An Italian Nieuport biplane from the back. 618
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