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WAR NEWS.

GERMAN HATRED OF BRITISH.

The hatred against the British has now get to such a pitch among German officers and soldiers that they no longer solute each other in the usual way with Good morning" or Good-bye," says an Amsterdam telegram. According to a letter received by -the-Hanoversche hurier from & Landwehr officer at the front, officers or men now say "The Lord punish England," to which the response is May He do sol",

CHILD PINNED WITH A SWORD.

A310DERATE INSTANCE OF GERMAN

BARBARISM.

Corporel C Minns, 1st The Queen's Regiment, who was wounded near Ypres, writes to his old schoolinaster as follows

"I have seen sights that have made me ill, and sights that I never want to see again, especially in Belgium. Mons was bad enough, but the present battlo is ten times worse.

For example, the day before I was

WORK OF THE BRITISH

OF T

NAVY.

OUR INCREASING SUPERIORITY.

STATEMENT OF ME. CHURCHILL. Speaking in the House of Commons on the 27th November, Mr. Winston Chur chill, First Lord of Admiralty, in the course of an important speech said :-

We have been at war for four months, of attrition is working. The losses of I should like to consider how the process submarines have been equal, as far as we now, but the proportion of less has been much greater to the Germans than to ourselves, because we have more than double the number of submarines in con- stant employmont. With regard to torpedo-boat destroyers, our boats have shown their enormous superiority in gun power, which, of course, was not unknown before the war. No loss has been experi enced by us, while eight or ten of the enemy's vessels have been destroyed. Of the older armoured cruisers we have lost,

think, six and Germany has lost two. But there again the number of vessels of this class which we have disposed was three or four times as great as that of our opponents, and we have of necessity to expose them more frequently and more wounded I was told with my section to openly to possible attacks. But the most take a house just outside & village. Of important class of minor vessels is that of fast modern light cruisers, which have course, we started, but were severely been built from the year 1903 oawards by | handicapped by the fact that a woman

was standing at the door of the house, at Great Britain and Germany which are of the point of a German bayonet, and a good speed, fast, vessels, are a most im

portaat factor in the course of the war. little girl 3 years old was at a windowAt the outset of the war Germany disposed held there while a maxim-gun was being of 25 of these vessels, and we disposed of ared out of the same window. We too 36. Since the war has begun we have lost the house, but I lost thirteen out of my

two out of our 36, or one-eighteenth by section of nineteen, only to find the little number; and the Germans have lost, shut girl pinned to the window-frame by up-I am including the Breslau in this sword. We found twenty-three Germans calculation--practically a quarter of their in the cellar. I left my men there and modern light cruiser strength. We have went upstairs. We took no prisoners on joined since the war broke out by a from the house,

number of new cruisers greater than those which our opponents have lost, so that our strength to day is vastly greater---beyond all comparison greater than it was at the outset of the war. The prospects for the future age even more satisfactory, because we have an enormous delivery of cruisers rapidly approaching completion, and the possiblo cruisers which the enemy could get in the next 12 months from all sources cannot exceed a half of those on

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That is a very moderate instance of German barburism, but they are all revenged with interest.!

The corporal ends that he was captured on the night of Ucccher 3rd, but caped in the morning.

FAIRY TALES.

KAISER'S ́ ́AIR NEWS" FUN BOER REBELS,

PRETORIA, December 5th.

which we can count,

GROWTH OF DREADNOUGHT STRENGTA,

time in civil life and who had not fully remembered the excellent precepts of their naval training. But in the Grand Ficet the conduct of the men is almost perfect. (Choers.). The whole personnel of the Navy are a most intelligent class of skilled. workmen and mechanicians, and they hivo studied fully the conditions of the war, and followed with the closest interest the heroic strugles of our soldiers in the field, and the zcal and enthusiasm with which they are discharging their duties utmost confidence. inspires those who lead them with the

I think it is right to offer these fow remarks of a more general character to The House, because despondent views are prejudicial to the public interest and not to be tolerated by persons in the respon, sible position of members of Parliament. or in public situations. There absolutely no reason whatever for norvousness;. or

alarm. or anxiety, (Cheers.)

is

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Mr. Thomas Gibson Bowles, addressing a meeting of the Institute of Shipbrokers at the Hotel Cecil last month, protested against the provisions of the Declaration of London, 1909; The Hague Conventions, 1907; and the Declaration of Paris, 1830, and urged their repudiation. In the first phase of the war, he said, Gormany had heen able to live upon her savings as it were upon her accumulated stocks of such seaborne food and case material as in time of peace she had already obtained from overseas. The second phase was now approaching when, unless her stocks naw depleted could-be-replenished, there must begin for her the period when she, like Napoleon and his allies, would have to pay 12 or more times as much as we paid for all seaborne goods, and when her diatress will become great and in the end unbearable. It was in this second phase that there would begin the desperate efforts of the oppressed bolligerent to escape the pressure of sen power. That WHANGPOO CONSERVANCY BOARD. object was to be attained only in one way

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TENDERS FOR DREDGING PLANT, TENDERS are bereby invited for the supply

of A-ONE STATIONARY BUCKET LADDER RIVER DREDGER of an actual working capacity of about 400 cubic yards per hour in hard sand and 45 foot maximun dredging depth. B.-ONE STATIONARY FLOATING PUMPING PLANT (for pumping ashore of an actual working output of about 500 cabis dredged material contained in barges) capable

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by employing, if possible, the neutral vessels to carry on the trade which German vessels were now unable to ontinue. It was our business and our duty, Mr. Bowles continued, to prevent them from carrying on that trade. We must do it, of course, with every possible tenderness and consideration for our neutral friends, and do it, if possible, by permission and negotiation. It we failed to prevent goods from reaching the enemy, our Fleet failed in the main final purpose for which it Royal Proclamations and three Orders in

Tendera may be submitted for either or both Council had been issued dealing with those of the above items. In case of tendering for matters, but most especially with the both dredger and pumping plant, the tenders

Each one de must be submitted separately for each item Declaration of London. stroyed part of the declaration, yet the last of them ordered the adoption by the Navy and the Pries Courts of the wreck age thereof that remained,' and there remained enough so to impair the power of the Navy as to reduce it to impotence

The relative strength in Dreadnoughts It is officially announced that a tele- has been so often discussed in this House gram, the original of which is in the before the war that it may be interesting possession of the Defence Headquarters, to review it at the present time and see was recently picked up by a patrol of the how far our arguments of peace time existed. Since the outbreak of war, three Union Defence Forces in German South-relats to the actual facts which are now West Africa containing news of the situa-disclosed. I may say that, of course, I tion for dissemination among the German am giving no information which is not troops in German South-West Africa. Of readily accessible to anybody who studies this telegram the following is a literal the published returns of peace time. translation:-

When the war broke out we mobilized 31

Communicated from Angola In Angola the following English-Portuguese cables are published:

"October 2nd-Complete destruction of

Russian feet near Kronstadt.

"October 1st and 2nd.-Grent sea battle, Heligoland. England admits five large war ships, among them admiral's ship, destroyed. Two hundred and fifty thousand Hollanders occupy Belgium te viene the rund for the German troops to France. At the same time Antwerp has fallen. Eight tauusand English are imprisoned and 2,000 are disarmed in Holland.

"October 17th-Kaiser wires guarantor of effectiveness of Boer Republics if they attack now. England allows Pussia to pass the Black Sea deet through, Declaration of war by Turkey on England and Hussin, and Japan declares war on Germany. Refusal of German warsnips to be disarmed by Japan. Amarica intervenos. Vill not tolerate annexation of Chinese territory by Japan. Uganda Railway occupied by German troops; likewise those of the Belgian Congo, Rhodesh and North Rhodesia: The cruiser Kornigabery destroys the English guardship erniser at Zanzibar Harbour The Emden blockades the Snca Canal."

TYRANNY IN LIEGE,

SHOPS LOOTED BY GERMAN WOMEN WITH

.HIFLES

Two Belgian women who have recently left Liège to rejoin their husbands, who are serving with the army in France, have given to Le Telegrammé a detailed account of the conditions in the town since the German occupation.

PROPULSION BY RADIO POWER.

Dreadnoughts und Lord Nelsons and Germany could have had and, I presne, did have, if her latest ships were ready, 21 Dreadnought battleships and battle ships and battle-cruisers, Bo we were just a little under the 60 per cent, which we had always set before ourselves. Now I cannot, of course, say how many ships have. joined the Fleet since, because it is a matter of great importance to keep secret the number of vessels which at any one AMERICAN TORPEDO BOAT TESTED: moment are available with the fag of the

GLOUCESTER, November 18th. Commander-in-Chief. It is the duty of every Englishman, every British subject, A wireless torpedo-boat, invented and. and every friend of our country to do his perfected by John Hays Hammond, jr., utmost to wrap that fact in secrecy and at his radio laboratory, near his father's mystery. (Cheers.) But although I can home on Lookout Hill, Freshwater Love, not tell the number of ships which have was tried on Monday, before Col. Hann, joied the flag since the declaration of U.S.A., of Boston, and a delegation of

War

I can say, first, that the relative military and naval men. This was not strength of the Ficet is substantially strictly an official visitation, but a little gi cater now than it was at the outbreak later the Government will give the of the war and, in the second place, I can apparatus a thorough test.

The contrivance is a small boat rigged indicate the reinforcements which both countries will receive between now and with two masts, between which are the end of 1915. The maximum reinforce antennas familiar in wireless telegraphy. ment which Germany can receive between In the hull is the apparatus, which receives now and the end of 1916-it is not possible its motive power from electrical impulses to construct any other ships within the of a powerful dynamo on the shore. The period, or by any human agency to add prow is virtually a huge torpedo. The to these numbers-is three ships on the boat is designed for propulsion against figures I have given the Lutzou, the an enemy's ship, and if the stem comes Kronprinz, and the Szimais, which is a in contact with a warship or of any other Greek ship which will presumably be substance it is exploded by impact. taken over.

The boat is equipped with steering gear and can be instantly guided in any direc attion with the response of the most finely balanced yachting craft. A year ago it had been perfected to such a point that it could be controlled within a radius of six

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MORE FIFTEEN TO THREE. Two years ago I set up a Cammittee the Admiralty to go into the whole ques tion of the acceleration of new construc tion immediately after an outbreak of war so that the greatest possible number of miles. Now, Mr. Hammond says, its SMALL deliveries could be made in the shortest capacity or distance is limited only by the They say that while the Germans have possible time. Very elaborate reports power of the electrical force. Monday it not actually committed any outrages and were furnished, and a complete system was driven from Gloucester Bay to the are conducting themselves with more or was worked out in every detail. In carry Graves, off Boston Light, a distance of 23 For Salə st→→ less restraint, they make their presenceing out this system we have been aided by miles, where it was controlled perfectly strongly felt. They have requisitioned the patriotism and energy of the workmen and brought home again entirely by everything in the town that can be of use in all the yards, who have strained their electricity. All this was under the eye of to them, and the cost of living rises day physical strength to the utmost, and have Col. Hann and the Navy and Army by day.

by so doing made themselves in fact the officials. Bread, theese, petrol, and candles comrades of their fellow-citizens who are

On a dark, foggy night it would be alike," said one of them, have risen in fighting in the trenches at the front possible to work this craft against a price Bread is distributed to the populs During this period, between the beginning battleship, floating battery or other object tion by the municipal authorities at the of the war and the end of 1915, while the from the shores of France or England. price of 4d. per 2lb. loaf, and no one Germans will be receiving an accession of It could also be operated from a warship. person is allowed to have more than half three ships we shall receive the following Mr. Hammond to day informed the a pound a day.

shipi:-The Agincourt and the Erin, Globe correspondent that he had plans to The largo stores have been stripped by acquired from Turkey, the Tiger, the make his torpedo best practically a sub- the wives of the German officers, who have Benbow, the Emperor of India, the Queen marine, but not entirely so. This model, come with their families, sometimes as Elizabeth, the Warapite, the Valiant, the which may be called semi submerged, will

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TRIBUTE TO THE GHAND FLEET,

For the last two years the Government has had its expert, Capt. F. J. Behr, U.S.A., keeping in touch with its progress.

SHIPPING REPORTS,

The British str. Changsha reports: Fine weather throughout,

The British str. Haibow reparts: Light airs and fine weather,

The British str. Susang reports: Strong monsoon south of Paracels and fine to Hongkong

I hope those facts will be a comfort to nervous people during the months that lie before us. They prove that, so far as any policy of attrition. is concerned, the results, so far, and the forecasts, so far as we may judge them, are not unsatis factory to use. The conduct of the Fleet The British str. Demodocus reports: is exemplary. Any crime there is arises No monsoon, light northerly winds in mainly among men who had been a long" Formosa Channel and slight fog.

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