SHAFTS OF SHAME AND DISHONOUR

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2341, 24 December 1914, Page 5

SHAFTS OF SHAME AND DISHONOUR

IRON CROSSES OF KING HEROD FIGHTING A WILD BEAST AND MURDERERS London, December 22. The damage done at Hartlepool i 3 estimated at £150,000. The Mayor of Scarborough, in acknowledging Mr. Winston Churchill's sympathy, remarks: "As the German naval commanders get older they will find that the Iron Cross pinned on their breasts by King Herod will not shield them from the shafts of shame and dishonour." Mr. Bonar Law, in an address at Bootle, said it was difficult to realise that a large German fleet could approach England, and go back untouched. He hoped that next time it would find something 1» welcome it: "We are not fighting a superman," said Mr. Bonar Law, "but a wild ,beast and a murderer of women and children. The raid on the East Coast was part of a longplanned scheme." > HOPE THE GERMAN FLEET WILL COME OUT AND FIGHT, ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) London, December 22. The naval correspondent of "The Times" declares:—"The Admiralty is hoping that the German Fleet will come out and fight. It has not yet taken measures to shut German ports; _ When the Germans come out we may be sure we are >pproaching the culminating episodesof the war. Until that happens small squadrons may continue to make sorties, and raid the East Coast of England." DELUSIONS OF A GERMAN NEWSPAPER. (Rec. December 23, 5.30 p.m.) London, December 22. The "Lokal Anzeiger" says the English are trembling more and' more at every thought of German invasion, and there is the utmost mistrust of the Navy and its controllers.—("Times" and Sydney "Sun',' Services.) DEATH ROLL AT HARTLEPOOL. (Rec. December 23, 8.10 p.m.) London, December 22. The death roll at Hartlepool through the bombardment totals one hundred. "NOW YOU ENGLISH DOGS, WE WILL LET YOU HAVE IT.'i (Rec. December 23, 8.10 p.m.) London, December 22. In connection with the internment of forty Germaaiß, a dramatic episode preceded their arrest. . . . T < When the bombardment the Germans shouted exultingly, JNow you English dogs, we will let you have it." English workmen immediately laid out three of them. WILL THE GERMAN FLEET COME OUT AND FIGHT? (Rec. December 23, 8.30 p.m.) Amstardam, December 23. A semi-official agency circulates an interview with Admiral Von Tirpitz, Secretary to the Admiralty, in which he stated that the duration of the war depended on England. Questioned as to whether the German Fleet would oome out and attack the English, he replied, "Can you expect our fleet, which is only a third of the size of the English, to come out and allow the English to deliver its blow?" Admiral Von Tirpitz said he believed in the use of the submarine against English merchantmen as being more effective than any Zeppelin raid. HARTLEPOOL SHIPBUILDERS ANXIOUS. . N CRec. December 23, 10.30 p.m.) . London, December 23. The Hartlepool shipbuilding firms have requested the War Office to provide adequate defensive measures. OBJECT OF THE RAID ON YARMOUTH. (Reo. December 23, 11.80 p.m.) London, December 23. The Viennese newspaper "Die Zeit" publishes a German Bailor's letter describing the raid on Yarmouth, which indicates that either the Seydlitz or the Moltke carried it out "We started at six in tha evening, the crew standing by the guns all night, and reached the coast at eight in the morning without sighting the enemy's ships. We were unable to get close owing to mines. The main object of the raid was gained by enabling the smaller cruisers to strew the English waters with mines;"