THE BRITISH NAVY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 294, 10 December 1914, Page 4

THE BRITISH NAVY.

It is indeed a joy to turn from petty Party politics to something great and Imperial. To-day we are privileged to record another of those glorious deeds that have won and retained the British Empire, in the official announcement, published elsewhere, ol the sinking of the three great German warships that have for so long been an harrassment to the merchant shipping of the Pacific. Details of the fighting will be awaited with the keenest expectation, and we have no doubt whatever but that they will add glory to the records of our great Navy. Falkland Islands, off which the battle appears to have been fought, are in the South Atlantic, and this indicates that the German fleet was making for some other part of the world, and it is just possible contemplated a raid on Australasia. Two other vessels, the Xurnburg and Dresden, apparently gave up the fight, and when the first i news reached us were being pursued |by Britain’s ships. Their fate is in- | evitable. Without boasting, but in I proud humility, we accept this latest I splendid evidence of Britain’s might ! and prowess on the seas.