GREAT BRITAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 170, 24 December 1914, Page 5

GREAT BRITAIN.

jj. THE NORTH SEA RAID. ' THE KAISER AS A WILD BEAST. !" LETTER FROM MA\ r OR OF SCARBOROUGH. London, December 22. The damage at H artlepool is estimat■ed at £150,000. The Mayor of Scarborough, in acknow- I ledging Mr Churchill's letter of sym- | patliy, remarks: "As the German naval commanders get older Aey will find that ! the Iron Cross, pinned on their breasts | by King Herod, will not shield them from the shafts of shame and dishonour." Mr Bonar Law, in a speech at Bootle, said it was difficult to realise that a large German fleet could approach England and go back untouched. He hoped that next time they would find something to welcome them. They were not fighting a superman but a wild beast, and the murder of women and children on the East Coast was part of a long-planned scheme. Some of the interned Germans in the Isle of Man arc making toys for the island shops and contributing the re*ults to the Belgian Relief Fund. i BRIEF EXULTATION. j ■GERMANS .PROMPTLY "LAID OUT." i Received '23, 18.30 p.m. London, December 23. ' The <Leatfh roll at Hartlepool has seached one hundred. In connection with the internment of forty Germans, a dramatic episode preceded their arrest. When the bombardment opened, a German shouted excitingly, '"Now, you English dogs, we will let you have it." An English workman immediately laid out three. j HARTLEPOOL WANTS MORE I Protection. , j Received 23, 20.30 p.m. ! London, December 23. [ Hartlepool shipbuilding firms have re-; quested the War Office to take adequate j ■defensive measures. , TWO MILLIONS UNDER ARMS. ! HALF A MILLION MORE TO GROSS THE CHANNEL. Received 23, 6.30 p.m. Paris, December 23. Mr Lloyd George, in an interview ■ with iLe Humanite, stated that- the British war expenditure was forty-fn e ; millions monthly. Britain now had ' Over two million soldiers and sailors | under arms, and before the spring half ■a mil'on fresh British troops would join I the-, n France and Belgium. A OOMMERCLiL PROPOSITION. TO UTILISE CAPTURED VESSELS. Received 23. 6.30 p.m. London, December 23. The Cardiff Chamber of Commerce has appointed a committee to consider the ' question of "putting to commercial use the enemy's ships now lying useless in Countries outside Great Britain, or to use them as Government transports to llelp towards the relief of high freightage. A GIFT WARSHIP. FROM BRITISHERS ABROAD. Received 23. 6.30 p.m. London, December 23. Lord Selborne, in a letter which has teen published, points out that Mr Churchill has approved of the proposal that Britons outside the Empire should n-ake a gift of a warship to Britain, that Mr Churchill mentioned that a light cruiser would cost upwards of £300,000 and a destroyer £150,000. Lord Selborne appeals to thieo million Britishers resident in foreign lands to provide the necessary funds. VICTORIA CROSSES. FOR CONSPICUOUS BRAVERY'. London, December 22. Victoria Crosses have been awarded to Commander Ilolbrook, for most conspicuous bravery; Lieutenant James Leach, and Sergeant .John Hogan, of the 2nd. Manchester Regiment, for conspicuous bravery in recapturing a trench.