EAST COAST RAID

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

EAST COAST RAID

A BERLIN TELEGRAM APPARENTLY INSPIRED Amsterdam, December 20. A Berlin telegram, apparently inspired, declares .that Scarborough is a fortified place, and that only the coastguard and wireless stations at Whitby were bombarded, which does not controvert international law. PATHETIC SCENES. FUNERALS AT SCARBOROUGH. London, December 20. There were pathetio 6cenes at the funerals at Scarborough. The Archbishop of York, in an address at the memorial service, said that the death of the innocent- would be a reminder of the ruthless ferocity of the war spirit which the Allies were striving to destroy. ADMIRALTY NOTE. COMPOSURE OF THE PEOPLE. (Rec. December 21, 5.40 p.m.) London, December 20. The Admiralty, replying to a. request of the Mayor of Hartlepool for an inquiry into the bombardment, said: — ' 'We appreciate the composure of the towns, and the way they have borno themselves in their first experience of German fire. All the facts are known to the Admiralty, and no further statement is possible at present."—("Times and Sydney "Sun" Services.) SCOTTISH SWORDS. WILL AVENGE THE INSULT. (Rec. December 21, 5.40 p.m.) London, December 20. Lord R/Osebery, speaking at Edinburgh, said: "If the,in6ult offered our shores by the hurried visit of the German squadron does not make every Scottish sword leap from its scabbard I am greatly mistaken in the nature of my fellow-countrymen."— ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) BOY SCOUTS WARNED. TO KEEP A SHARP LOOK-OUT. (Rec. December 21, 5.40 p.m.) London, December 20. General Sir R. Baden-Powell (Chief of the Boy Scouts) last week summoned the boys to Scarborough and bade them keep a sharp look-out, because he felt surei there would be a raid before long. —("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) 'ALIENS INTERNED. (Rec. Decomber 21; 10.20 p.m.) v London, December 21. Three more deaths have occurred at Hartlepool. Forty aliens, who have been employed at works in Hartlepool, have been interned.