BABYKILLERS OF SCARBOROUGH

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2339, 22 December 1914, Page 5

BABYKILLERS OF SCARBOROUGH

STIGMA ON GERMAN NAVY MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL'S SEVERE COMMENT (Rec. December 21, 9.5 p.m.) London, December 21. The Press Bureau states that Mr. Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, in a message of sympathy to the Mayor of Scarborough, said: "Personally, and also on behalf of the Navy, we share your disappointment that the miscreants escaped unpunished, but we await with patience the opportunity which must surely come." Ho viewed tho larger aspect of the incident as one of the most instructive and encouraging of the war. Nothing proves plainer the effectiveness of the British naval pressure than the frenzy and hatred aroused against us. Hatred has already passed the frontiers of reason, clouds their vision, darkens their counsels, and convulses their movements. We see a nation of military calculators throwing calculation to the winds, strategists lost to all sense of proportion, and their schemes have ceased to balanco loss and gain particularly. The whole of the fast cruiser force of the German navy, including tho great ships vital to thoir fleet and utterly irreplaceable, risked for the passing pleasure of killing as many English people as possible, irrespective of sex or age. The condition which impelled this act of military or political folly, and the violence of feeling which can find no other vent are very satisfactory, and confirm our courses. • ' ' Their hate measures their fears, and whatever feats of arms the German navy hereafter performs, the stigma of "the Babykillers'of Scarborough" will brand their officers and men while sailors sail the seas."