The Pen for Soldiers' Illustrated Folder sent on request. $2.50 to $50.00. Avoid Substitutes. In Attractive Xmas Gift Boxes. From the Best Stores Everywhere. L. B. Waterman Company, Limited, - - Montreal. "NO QUARTER" ! NOW REPLY British Naval Expert Says That German Naval Raid | Will End Humane Policy of British Admiralty t -- caused Electric Sky Sign' Floated a in Air Over Whitby Directed by Spies on Coast from lists of A despaitch The casualty the German naval raid account for 97 civilians} killed and 122 wounned in the bom-} bardment. of Scarborough, Hartle} pool and Whitby. Seven-sdldiers were killed and 14 wounded at West Hartlepool. The figures shows Killed Wounded 2 19. arborough ....... 0 WHRDY ca isswnccees 2 2 Hartlepool ......... 41 101° West Hartlepool ..: 41 14> Total.... 104 1365 officers by the bombardment stimate that the Germans fired 200 | che lls, chi cefly of the 9-inch and 12> inch kind. Several 12-inch shells M6 oni ny ad not exploded were found # the soft earth. rtle- pools were raked from thres an- gles by the enemy. Lying off the> | peninsula, which the tear ap- proached from the suth, towns were shelled by the forward guns as the cruisers advanced. Army Doniis saya?) " who examined theft. A despatch from Lo ndon says: Following is the comment of Fred | Abreast of the peninsula the Ger- "This is to our advantage, but} mans pokred a broadside fire over from. no possible point of view has; the entire length of the sister towns. the German behavior been justified. l As the cruisers nigde their escape ane, the agt arg: naval writer in Brit ain, on-thé German naval| Nor can it ever be forgiven. We) to the north-east they poured a fire 4 ai shal! bably manage to see to it! frony their rear guns on the north "The full ps of the German | that Ps 3 of the German eruisers re- | side of the peninsula, Many des {- North Sea raid is clearly in accord|iurn to harbor. If we are wise we|troyers were visible beyond * the prisoners taken. shall we ten- from similar shall hang any Then, and then only, der ourselves immune raids in the future. with the senseless policy which, re- gardless of everything, has during the past few days been advocated in the German press. It is a maritime' application of the German lan iey_ in elgivm--wholes sale de Btraction of he!pless and inoffensive civilians in an effort to create a reign of terror. The British navy pes hitherto seemed unduly humane n this war re have gone out of our way to save the enemy's lives. We regarded the enemy as a civi- lized foe. Now all this is likely to be changed. 'No quarter' seems to 'he the unly possible reply to the ure savagery of German action. bas 'he horrors of naval war will be iIn- creased, but the duration of opera- tions will perhaps be shortened ac- cordingly. "Tn these days war is a more of less exact seience. The result of | the success of any operation can be | gauged beforehand. 'Germany no have known perfectly well that no material result could possibly ac- rue from the raid which her hips) made on Wednesday. Perhaps it is ay side issue, but the question certain- | tainly arises, How did the Germans | get out so easily ? ? It is not a ques- tion which should be insisted on. | If the enemy got out so easily and | finds return impossible, high stra- tegy may be perceived in the cir- | cumstances of their easy exit i NOVEMBER TRADE INCREASE : Shows an rene of About. Fifteen, Million Dollars 'a _ Over 'November, 1913 eight months ending November was $447,911,144 as compared with 3446, - 169,481 in 1913. Imports of coin and | bullion in November were $48,325, 727 as compared with $1. 814, 104 in The trade was| November, $126,455,299, an about Exports in November. 1914, were | fifteen millions $74,424,299 as compared with $107, -| 1913. Exclusive of the import of | 964,484. Exports of mamiufactures eoin and bullion, which has largely, have increased, a healthy sign, and increascd, both total exports and imps rts slowed a decrease, this be ing chi efly due to a falling off in the export of agricultural products. Total imports for November, cluding coin and bullion, were 880.917 as compared with $52.016,- in 1913, and the total for the Enormous Damage in Aerial Raids A despatch from Ottawa says: An 'increase in the total trade of Can- 'ada for the month over the corres- of last year is indi- trade statement for o ~ © were $6,376,500 for the month _ n- | pared with $4,841,922 in 1913. x- | ports of animals and their oe dens | were 38,470,602 compared with 87,-! 795.511. Exports of agricultural products, however, dropped from! $33,417,055 in November. 1913, to $18.846.286 this vear, in- 379,- 560 | { | A desyiateh frem Paris says: 'De-{a single file at a height of 3.000 feet, spite German denials it is now] amidst a furious storm of shells clearly estalJtished that the recent | 'rom the German Bie. threy w eigh- : : jteen bombs. of which fourteen | aeroplane raids from Belfort were lcaused = enurmous damare The productive of real results Six | leading aeroplane was struck by al ombs were thrown on Frieburg,! shell splinter in the left plane, and Baden, on December 4. In order} several bullets grazed the gasoline to mislead the Germans the leader | reservoir, breaking sume of the of the flotilla, a sergeant-major of| stays; without. however, impairing | Tussars, made a wide detour over| the stability of the machine. The | the Black Forest, coming back on| aeroplanes, after undergoing a final | Freiburg without being molested. | bombardment, returned to Belfort , On December 9 the flotilla, flying in] without further incident | British Troops Landing at 'Havre to three vears, and barracks arg be ing built. Extensive supply deputs have been established here. A despatch from Havre, France, Bays: Thousands of British troops are arriving here daily on trans- rts, and are being moved to the The __ of A & cross-channe! transport would carry not fewer than 1.000 men, se| that if the arrivals have continued | 15 "British trans- at the same rate since the above rts arrive here daily from South- 'long te ' ward the shore, goo , destroyer ' by shells Germans during the bombardment. At first these were believed to be- the hostile competent observers say the Ger- mans fired both seaward and to- which seems to in- dicate that the Germans shipped be- tween the English flotilla and the -- during the heavy fog that Die } wins just before the bomba nen The shore guns acquitted them. selves creditably and were not in-, jured by the German fire. Persons who witnessed the fighting between,| 8 squadron, but }88 3 destroyers made such fast time' in appreaching the Yorkshire coast MaAitor the. wireless had given' the alarm of the bombardment of the ree cities that they found them- Selves in the path of the retreat of the Germans. Sank Three Merchant Ships. Employing a defensive trick:they used to some purpose on Nove ember + '8, the German cruisers dropped mines in their wake as they sli pped #0 sea in the fog. Three Britis h| Merchant vessels were sunk by these mines, and at least seven men 'and probably more were killed. The steamer Elterwater, of 743 tons, struck a mine off Flamborough ead and went to the bottom. Twelve of her crew escaped, but Seven were lost. The Princess Olga, a coaster of 438 tons, was blown up by a mine off Hartlepool and about _gix miles from the coast. Members of the crew of this chip reported fines they saw a German splaying Mines near the point where the Princess Olga was lost. The third steamer was the Vaar- en, A traWler brought to Grimsby fdur survivors from this vessel. The Va wen struck a amine in-the North on Wednesday night and 13-per-|r Sons perished. The survivors were|t ound clinging to an upturned boat. | 1 The certainty that the Germans d:the sea with mines compel- Jed the Admiralty to issue a warn- ing to shipping. Navigators and encies were informed that traffic between Flamborough Head anc weastle is endangered by mines. m London and in all England Tage against the Germans is tem- pered by grief for the helpless wo- men and children who were struck out of life so suddenly and cruelly. majority of the victims at tlepcol were women and children. Fifteen schoo! boys were ki! led by a single shell, only one lad in the group escaping. Ten persons lost their lives when a building in which * the shore guns, and the cruisers say, | the smoke stick of one of the cruis- was smashed and that -many} ent landed on another while it was aenatay broadside to the shone 'bs atteries A despatch from "London he AY short, fieree battle was the fog off the Yorkshire nee: be- | tween a mosquito fleet of British destroyers and the powerful squad- ron of the German high fleet, wl ies fled from the. wr tlepool, Scarhor Racing to the ea the wireless apekis that were 3 ee from the bombarded cities: to every British warship and depot, the destroyers encountered the Ger- man battle eruisers 'ore their nearness was realized, In the' mist! | that veiled the sea, the Tyrie flotilla came into contact with the. Ger- mans,. and did their best to delay the flight untis the British battle cruisers and = dre adnoughts could they had taken a te collapsed un- der the shock of shells. Seven of the dead at Hartlepool were volun- ers of Lord Kitchener's new army. ey were sent: with their comrades to man the trenches in anticipation of an attempt of the Germans to Jand an invading force. The Ger- mans had the range of the new de- fences perfectly, and this fact is evidences A startling story, indicating ee: the German ships were directed' by Spies on the coast as to where to -- is furnished to the Daily suis - Tracey, the well His home. "Fair- 'hitby, was under the fire of the German shells, Mr. Tracy said: "The whole coast was excited by.a brilliant sky sign, which shone over the moors for half an hour: Tt was an electric lamp fixed to a 'come up. They were not sue and they suffered sume punishment from the heé avy, long range guns 6 the German cruisers, but they made a plucky fight . The light cruiser Patrol and the Doon were among -- the British ships which attacked the German cruisers, Both were struck 's. They lost five men killed e nd fifteen wounded. The two ves- s mentioned could have only a fee chance of doing any serious | damage to the larger German ships engaged ment of Hartlepool, Scarborough It is assumed here that the Bri- land Whitby will bring forward not kite, and as it floated high in the it marked the position of itby. The raid has had one very impor- tant and useful! effect. Recruiting has been dhionulatel as never before in the war. Tlie station at Scotland Yard was crowded all day with men to whom the news of the raid had brought home slarply the actual eril that England is in, and the magnitude of the. task before her. It is safe to say that the bombard- pton. Large camps have leased on the heights _ along the 'Beine for periods varying from two despatch was written, at least 150,- j 000 men must have been Innded in | France in the last ten days Wounded Return per cent. of e wounded returned to the Bring line before December 12, ac- ing to interesting figures sup- iporet by the surgical department of Ministry of War. Of the re- 'mainder 24 per cent. had been given convalescent leave, 17 per A despatch trom Paris says> No cent. to the Firing | Line and had been discharged from the army. Three and a half per cent. of the wounded died. These statistics demonstrate the re- were still in hospita's, 114 per cent. ararkatiie advance made in surgery, an ow a lowér percentage o deaths from wounds than in any preceding war A Belgian Christmas. ALLOW ME TO PRESENT " MY BEST FRIEND DEGLINE SUBSTITUTES. WINNIPEG, E.W. SENS oo LTD. Maur CO Pant We em than 200,000 men who might have hung back in a feeling of false security. Pathetic Incidents. An old woman was picking up coal dropped from cars on the rail- way embankment, when she was killed by a shell. An old man and his two daughters were just starting breakfast in the kitchen when a shell burst in the room, killing all three of them. A young woman went to the house of her aged mo- ther, intending to conduct her to a prior to. his departure from Berlin. He added : 'tthe is simply the prelude to what the German fleet is soon to undertake, which may astonish the world."' en FRENCH WAR COST. Six Months' Estimate Figures at $1,185,888.573. A despatch from Paris says: The cost of the war to France for the first six months in 1915 is officially sageway figured at 5,929,442,865 franes (81,- 185,888,573) or about $200,009,000 monthly. "This tota! is in addition o the usual expenditures of the army, but it includes $101.460,000 allowed to families of soldiers, place of safety . Entering the pas- she stumbled across her nother's body. A shell had pierced he roof and killed her. An elderly nan, who thought the gun firing was that of British ships at prac- ia st laler tice, sat down unconcernedly to breakfast. A shell carried away the corner if his ee killing his two little grandchildre ""May"? Astonish "a World. On his arrival at Rome, Prince von Buelow, the former Imperial] German Chancellor, and now Am- bassador to Italy, was informed of the bombardment of the E no surprise. He said this achievement had been arranged for $4,000,000 to persons out of em ployment, $10,200,060 for the main- tenance of persoss driven from their homes by the German invasion, and to various other items directly due to the war. appropriations committee of the French Parliament met to consider the budget, which aggregates for the first six months in 1915 a total of 8,525,264,407 francs (31,705,052,881). The rate of $200, - 000,000 monthly for next year about the scale of expenditures for the pad maths of war in the pre sent ye is AUSTRIAN DEFEAT COMPLETE Positions Fell One .'fter Another Until They Fled From Servia in Precipitate Disorder A despatch from Paris says: Tele- graphing from Nish, the correspon- thrown, and on which numerous pent of the Hayas Agency says: waited to_ferry the tiOops to 'the «Bull detaile.,.ob. the» fighting | (oposite bank. While the : guano iaround Belgrade have not es "ae received,;. but enough is' show that there also the Austrians suffered a defeat of a fatal nature. After several fighting the Austrian troops o¢cu- pied a line of positions echeloned bam the northeast of, Obrenovatz, as far as Koviona, to the south-east of Avala (nine miles el- grade). The latter position was carried by the Serbs after several bayonet charges. Other positions fell one after another, until the Austrians were completely beaten on the last hills to the north of Avala. They were beaten also on the left flank by Serviar columne de bouching from Obrenovatz. 'The Austrians retreated precipi tately towards the QRanube and Save, over which bridges had previously been days of stubborn: sine Tast' resis- t©| tance. The Austrian columns, which * were left to protect the retreat were thrown into wild disorder and 'aban- doned heavy guns, rifles-and other equipment, throwing some of it in to the Danube. servian artillery, which was. ra- pidly brought up to positions com manning both rivers, shtited destroyed several bridges. The Austrian losses during the latter days were enormous, and those of the Servians were also seriou. The Servians captured about 10,000 pri- soners, of whom 67 were officers, 20 cannon, ine! luding eight mortars, 20 machine: guns, 229 ammunition wi gons, -20 field kitchens, numer. horses, and a great quantity of su one ac Many Austrians were drown ed EGYPT A BRITISH PROTECTORATE Suzerainty of Turkey Over the Country is minated is Ter- '" ' ' A despatch from London says: The Official Press Burean issued the following statement concern- ing the making of Egypt a British protectorate : "His Britannic Majesty's princi- | pal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs gives netice that in view of ate of war ariving-out of the ae- tion of Turkey, Egypt is placed un- the protection of his Majesty, 'and will henoefo rth constitute a Br tish protectorate, The suzer ainty of 'urkey over Egypt is thus termi nates, and his Majesty's Govern- ; ment will adopt all measures neces- 'sary for the defence of E gypt, and the protection of its inhabitants and interests. 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