THE RAID.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 305, 23 December 1914, Page 4

THE RAID.

For an actual attack on the shores of Great Britain we have apparently to go hack to Paul dopes, and Scots may think that, as he was born in Scotland, he was not an enemy in the sense that a German is one, wo are reminded by a Press writer, Paul Jones did 1,

some very daring things on the British coast in the American service. In 1778, in his brig of 18 guns, he descended on Solway Firth, and fired a ship and spiked thirty-six guns at Whitehaven, and then went to Belfast Lough, where he captured a sloop of war. In the following year, in command of a French squadron, he threatened Leith, and after a desperate engagement took two British men-of-war close to Flamborough Head. Ireland, however, was invaded some years after this, when the French sent a force over at the time of the rebellion. For an attack on British coasts prior to j Paul Jones we would probably have to go back to Charles 11., when t'iie Hutch sailed up the Thames and burnt British ships under the King’s nose.