June 14, 1917 
LAND & WATER 
T7 
The Reprisals Problem 
Was Marshal Marmont 
right in declaring that 
Reprisals are always 
useless ? 
Or is there any effec- 
tive means of retaliation 
for German outrages ? 
MARSHAL MARMONT, one of Napoleon's generals, 
affirmed that reprisals are always useless. But 
modern Prussia did not exist in the Napoleonic age, 
and a dictum which held good then does not hold good in 
the Great War, with its unexampled Prussian barbarities. 
There is no precedent for the atrocities perpetrated by the 
Prussian High Command upon women and children in the 
invaded lands, upon the civilians in those lands, upon open 
towns, upon merchant ships, both belligerent and neutral, 
and upon hospital ships. 
The Sailors' and Firemen's Union reports that a German 
submarme, after torpedoing a British merchant ship, fired 
a surface torpedo at a small boat which was rowing towards 
a rescue ship. The torpedo went clean through this small 
boat, and the captain and crew in her were all drowned. 
This is a typical German barbarity. 
The Proprietors of FLYING believe that the problem 
of Preventive Reprisals, intended to prevent this and 
similar outrages, can be solved ; and they therefore offer 
a series of Prizes for the best solution of the Reprisals 
Problem. It must be practicable, effective, and thoroughly 
worked out in detail. Any sort or kind of reprisal, whether 
military, naval, aerial, political, economic, or purely moral, 
will be carefully examined. 
THE PRIZES. 
THE FIRST PRIZE will be the original painting, by Mr. Charles 
Pears, entitled " Aeroplanes Leaving Dover for an Attack on 
Zeebrugge," a reproduction of which was presented with the firet 
niuiiber of FLYING. The picture is worth 50 (niineas. 
THE SECOND PRIZE will be Ten Guineas, and the THIRD 
PRIZE will be I'ive Guineas. 
RULES. 
I. 
2. 
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Suggestions must not exceed 500 words. 
They must be written on one side of the paper. 
They must be posted, with- the coupon (.'^eeibelow), in an 
envelope marked " Reprisals," to FLYING, 5, Chancery 
Lane, W.C. -4. not' later than, July 15th, IQ17. 
4. A competitor may send in any i\umb,cr of suggestions provided 
that each suggestion is accompanied by a coupon. 
5. We cannot enter into corre'Sponden'ce wi'tli competitors. 
The decision of the Editor mus,t be accepted as final. The Pro- 
prietors of FL YING reserve the right to' publish anv competitor's 
suggestions (not necessarily with his name), which will be sub- 
mitted to the Press Bureau before pubhcation. 
COUPON. 
The Competitor must fill up and send in the Coupon 
which is published in the current number of 
FLYING. 
Hunt Servants' Benefit Society 
and 
Hunt Servants' Health Insurance Friendly Society 
The foi'ty-fifth An'iual General Meeting ot the Hunt Servants' Benefit 
Society, and th« fif.h Annual General Meeting of the Hunt Servants' 
Health Insurance Friendly Society will be held in the Subscription Room 
at Messrs. TattersaU's. Knightsbridge, London, S.W., on the morning of 
Thursday, June 28th, at 11 o'clock. 
Nominations of Candidates for Election to the Committee of Management 
of the latter Society must be given in writing to the Secretary not less than 
seven davs before the Annual General Meeting. 
H. W. WRIGHT, Secretary, 
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