BRITAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 175, 2 January 1915, Page 6

BRITAIN.

THE CUXIIAYEN RAID. Tillies and Sydney Sun Services. London, December ."0. The Times' naval correspondent comments on the fact that dur'ng the Ciixhaven raid the Briiisli cruisers remained three hours off the enemy's coast and it is significant that no attempt was made to interfere with them by any surface vessels. Doubtless the Germans had the keenest recollection of what occurred in tin- Heligoland Bight in August. The correspondent adds that the raid has shown thai neither rallies, forts nor warships are able to protect these important defensive works from assault. This must have an immense moral effect on the German nation. CONFERENCE OF ALLIES PROPOSED. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, December 30. The Times' military correspondent, reverting to the proposal that the Allies should unite to co-ordinate their strategy, urges a conference of representatives of the Allies' armies and navies, because the war will continue throughout the winter without intermission and will redouble its intensity in the spring. ''We are," he says, ''in tin; presence of a final effort on the enemy's part to mobilise his resources and present them later in the field. (hir duty is to note the preparations and make arrangements to frustrate them." Instructions have been issued at Portsmouth that in the event of the enemy dropping bo; ::s (he fragments are to be handed to :ee military authorities in order to discover the nature mid size of the missiles. INDIAN NATIOX.iL COXGRESS. . London, December 30. Subranniiiia Iyer s.rd that none were more loyal ilian the representatives of educated India, but the dissolution of the National Congress cmld „„(. he entertained till they wire nearer the goal of self-goven men!.. Dhupcnnra-Xath-Zahu, president, deprecated controversy, and said: "To seal the matter we must present united Empire. We can put a wall of Indians in the field against which the Germans will hurl themselves in vain."