Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 307, 28 December 1914, Page 5

Great Britain

A REAL ENGLISH CHRISTMAS.

Times and Sydney. Sun Sebviczi.

(Received 8.0 a.m.) London, December 28

Christmas in Britain was the most homely, religious, and quiet within memory.

WELL-HATED BRITISHERS.

(Received 8.35 a.m.) Port Darwin, December 28

Captain Colyer, who participated in the siege of Tsing-tao, where ho was wounded, says that after the capture, the Germans interestedly watched the march past of the Japanese, but when the Britishers passed they with one accord turned their backs upon them. The Germans' hatred wont so far that the officers spat in the faces of the Britishers.

GENERAL.

London, December 25

Reuter's Monte Video correspondent telegraphs that Admiral Sturdee, replying to the British Minister's greeting, said Lord Roberts had recommended military preparation. If he had been listened to, the war would have been avoided. English business men, forgetting their true interests, had employed Germans for reasons of economy, but he hoped that the traders and English shipping companies had learned their lesson.