THE KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA ECHO With WHICH IS INCORPORATED "The Kaipara Advertiser & Waitemata Chronicle." Helensville, Thursday, Jan. 7, 1915. 1915.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 8 January 1915, Page 2

THE KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA ECHO With WHICH IS INCORPORATED "The Kaipara Advertiser & Waitemata Chronicle." Helensville, Thursday, Jan. 7, 1915. 1915.

Many things, have happened since our last publication. Christmas passed with all happiness and joviality, and our staff took the 'offered "week off" with all thanks to our subscribers and advertisers. But the New Year intervened before this issue, and with all the greetings of "best love and every prosperity" from one and another many leagues apart, we are now confronted with the fact that the enemy have biown-up and sunk the battleship Formidable, with hundreds of valuable lives in the English Channel, and as she cost over a million pounds into the bargain, this was indeed a dark day for the opening of the New Year.. Britain and her allies, and they are legion, must crave and pray continuously for satisfaction, and splinter-up the enemy by fe*/_fc vt \Y ciWfi., aiK i } lano . the articles of war. __ngra-rs_-gets no mercy—will get none— and should spare sparingly, excepting where women and children are concerned. But then Germany, it is said, she (or the he-devil) has just gathered together " another million of prime fighting men, so who can Britain spare when her own red blood is being so ruthlessly spilled ? The sooner she gets out a few more million men to save the situation the better, because one and all of the on-lookers are craning their neck to find out how England •is going to retrieve her lost laurels on the sea, where at present she has little to boast about.