GREAT BRITAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 169, 23 December 1914, Page 5

GREAT BRITAIN.

THE NORTH SEA RAID. C : STIFFENS ANTI-GERMAN FEELING IN AMEKICA. ANOTHER RAID POSSIBLE. London, December 21. Naval men who chased the raiders state that their esca'.-e was due to the mist. Directly the flotilla got on his track the enemy scuttled. A small a cruiser saved the situation. It was no o match for its weightier opponents, and the fact that it came well out of the I 1 encounter was due to the poor gunnery r of the Germans. Three German vessels rained shells on the flotilla, but did little damage. * Times and Sydney Sun Services. Q London, December 21. ( ' A New York correspondent says the ■> naval raid on undefended Yorkshire } towns and the the murder " of non-combatants has evoked in Ber- v .lin have not assisted the German cause in America. On the contrary they have deepened the conviction that a victory to the Kaiser would be the victory of scientific barbarism over civilisation. The Times' na'tl correspondent stresses the difficulty of combatting raids over short distances made by battle-cruisers of the highest speed. A squadron so constituted might remain at sea for some time longer. It is uncertain whether the German squadron is still inthe North Sea. It might con- t trive to evade the Brtish battle-cruisers \ and, favoured by thidi weather, might t attempt more damage before it returned t to. port. I j 1 AT (THE INQUEST. 1 Times and Sydney Sun Services, * Received 22, 5.20 p.m. London,, December 22. At the inquest on the Scarborough 1 victims, the jury wished to return a ' verdict of wilful murder, but the Coro- ' ner pointed out that such a verdict 1 would necessitate the prosecution of the ! commanders of the warships, which was ! impossible. GENEROUS GIFTS FROM INDIA. AMBULANCES AND MATERIAL. London. December 21. The Maharajah of Gwalior has presented the King with a Christmas gift consisting of forty-one ambulance cars, four motor-cars for officers, five motorlorries and repair wagons, and ten military motor cycles. Delhi. December 21. The Ambulance Association is vigor--ously assisting the Red Cross movement. Material worth £30,000 has been dispatched to the front, and £IO,OOO in cash is in hand. Ladies throughout India are working hard to provide comfort for the troops. "A BAND OF BROTHERS." HABMONY AMONG THE ALLIES. London, December 21. The newspapers comment on the har•mony among the Allies, which has been strikingly evidenced by the way the •change has been carried out in Egypt, :also by the mutual vigorous olFensive in Flanders to relieve the German pressure on Poland. The Daily Mail says the Allies are a :band of brothers whose mutual regard increases the longer they are thrown "togther. It adds that the nibbling process proceeds without pause, but the morsels gnawed away grow larger each day and all the allied troops are animated by the sense of conquering «latk>n. ' THE LIGHTER SIDE. Times and Sydney Sun Services, Received 22, 5.20 p.m. London, December 22. ' 41 t&Uor detects the remarkable shrinkage of five or six inches in the past three months in the waistcoat measurements of elderly and middleaged clients, owing to violent army military training. Inquiries elsewhere con. firm the wonderful effects of drills and route marches. In the suburbs old boys sprint to the trains who have not ran ten yards since they ceased to play cricket in top hats They jump info motor "buses whilst in motion with the agility of a two-year-old, and are growing contemptuous of umbrellas. The exercises have taken off twenty jm9 ot their Jives,