BRITAIN'S NAVY

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 7, 9 January 1915, Page 7

BRITAIN'S NAVY

THE RAID ON SCARBOROUGH DISCUSSION IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS. LONDON. Bth January. Lord Selborne, in asking whether the Government would mak« a statement on the recent naval operations, said Sir John Jellicoo's aole task was to destroy the German Fleet if it came out. It was not his business to try and prevent -euch a raid as that at Scarborough, therefor© it was no reflection on the Admiralty that such a raid was possible. The Marquis of Crewe, in replying, said there had never been a naval war in which the supremacy of the British Fleet all over the world had been obtained so readily at /w> small a cost. We must not forget the assistance given by Australia, France, and Japan. No activities of German spies had ajny bearing on the East Coast i*aid. Any pinning of the Fleet to the coast because of raids would be uirwiee and almost suicidal. The captain of the Formidable, in ordering other vessels not to stand by, owing to submarines, had acted in a manner worthy of the highest traditions of the Navy. SAVAGERY PILLAGE, ROBBERY, MURDER, AND OUTRAGES INDICTMENT OF THE GERMANS. PARIS, Bth January. The French Commissioners' report on the Germans' violation of international law states ;--" Never has a war among civilised nations borne such a savage and ferocious character as that waged by Germany. Pillage, robbery, incendiarism, and murder are the enemy's current practice, denoting an astonishing retrogression in German mentality since' 1270. " Outrages on women and girls are unprecedented. Soldiers and officers finish -off the -wounded mercilessly >and kill inoffensive inhabitants irrespective of age and sex." NAMELESS OFFENCES STORY'OF HORRIBLE BUTCHERY. LONDON, Bth January. The Commission reports that the most terrible massacre in France was that at Gerbeviller, in the Vosges (26 miles south-east of Nancy), where, on 24th August, the Bavarians burst into houses, shooting and stabbing, regardless of age or sex. Over four hundred houses were destroyed and fifty persons were massacred in their homes. Maay namsis»-.pffeac«»_Kerft-^mn)it^ -

There was another horrible butchery at Morency, in the Department of Menrthe-et-Moselle. Thft Germans fired a building where many people were hidden in the -cellars, and shot them like rate as they emetged. Whole families were exterminated.