RUSH FOR ENLISTMENT.
"AVENGE SCARBOROUGH." "UP AND AT 'EM." Received this day, 11.40 o.m. London, Friday. The raid is materially increasing en listers, particularly in the area affected by Wednesday's bombardment. The authorities are placarding the country with a poster header] "Avenge Scarborough: Up and At IC'm"; addr ing the wholesale murder of innocent women and children dcmandß vengeance. Show the German barbarians that they cannot bombard Britain's flhoro with impunity. At the inquest at Scarborough, Dean, a coastguard petty-ullicer, in evidence, stated there vvtre two large cruisers accompanied by two smallnr cruiserp. The larger vessels fired their starboard guns, then turned and fired the port gunp. The bombardment lasted forty minutes. Five hundred sheila were fired. SIGNALLERS TO BE SHOT. London, Friday. Patrols on the East Coast have been ordered to .shoot prisoners eignclling in any manner or exhibiting any lights visible at sea. Ten were killed and and eleven wounded during the naval engagement off Hartlepool.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/KCC19141219.2.21.4
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 731, 19 December 1914, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
158RUSH FOR ENLISTMENT. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 731, 19 December 1914, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Waitomo Investments is the copyright owner for the King Country Chronicle. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Waitomo Investments. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in