THE EAST COAST RAID.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13575, 31 December 1914, Page 3

THE EAST COAST RAID.

(Sydney Sun Specials.) LONDON, Dec. 22. A rumor which got abroad on Friday

morning that German ships were off the coast caused some alarm. The authorities finally found it necessary to issue a proclamation advisiing the people to resume their vocations.

The twin boroughs were sad and dark places^ on Thursday night. No street lamps were burning, and all business had to be conducted by candle-light. The territorials defending the forts behaved admirably and showed the finest discipline under the deluge of deadly missiles to which they were subjected from the enemy's guns. When the fire was at its fiercest, two of the territorials left their cover to rescue a wounded fisherman.

Hartlepool, Scarborough, and Whitby are all zealously pursuing their business as usual. <

iSydney Sun Special Service.)

'»• i - , LONDON, Dec. 23. A lady sanitary inspector at Liverpool discovered a complete wireless plant in the chimney of a suburban villa'. Belgium is grateful to the Victorian State Service Patriotic Fund. Air McBride, the Victorian Agent-General, has handed the Belgian Consul-General £200, and he is spending £100 on Christmas gifts for distressed Belgians, £100 on distressed soldiers, and handing £100 to Lady Emmott for boots for needy refugees. .

VANCOUVER, Dec* 23. French and British aerial excursions are made daily to Baden and Wurtemberg, the object being to destroy the railway.

London messages state that the possibilities of an invasion will bring about the creation of a defence corps called the National Guard, with the Lord Mayor as president. The object cs to» provide a force of actively engaged professional and business men and artisans aged 40 and upwards.