19 DECEMBER 1914, page 1

A Word Of Caution Is Necessary Against The Foolish Talk

of people who complain because the Navy has not been able to do the impossible. The Navy never undertook to protect our shores from runaway raids. if it had, it would have been......

News Of The Week.

A SMALL squadron of German cruisers made an attack on Hartlepool, Whitby, and Scarborough on Wednesday morning. It seems that the squadron consisted of at least three battle......

At Hartlepool The Land Batteries Replied, And Are...

have hit the enemy. Three German ships were seen at this point. None of the Hartlepool guns was touched, but one German shell fell among the Royal Engineers, and several among......

We Have Dealt Fully With This " Runaway Ring" Elsewhere,

but we wish to say here that, if we treat this piece of barbarism with the contempt which it unquestionably deserves from the naval and military point of view, it must not be......

The Admiralty Must Be Protected By All Sane Landsmen Against

the slightest pressure of this kind. No doubt if the Admiralty thinks that experience has shown that some changes in its plans will enable it to catch snipers more easily, those......

Our Indignation Has Made Us Deal First With The Raid,

but to have done so is, we confess, to have lost the sense of pro- portion. By far the most important piece of news this week is the official announcement made in Friday's......

That The Effect Of The Raid On Recruiting Will Be

excellent goes without saying. Indeed, we need not use the future tense, for already Germany's bloody and brutal insult has proved the determining factor for thousands of men......

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