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4--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914.--[Part 21]


of our submarines in the Dardanelles, had simply been the victim of a
"leak"; but so serious was this little "rift within the lute" that its
author, Lieut.-Commander Holbrook, R.N., was awarded a V.C. for his
splendid deed of daring--a very different kind of act from the German
bombardment of undefended towns on our East Coast, which caused our First
Lord of the Admiralty to write to the Mayor of Scarborough--and his words
deserve to be here repeated and recorded--that "nothing proves more
plainly the effectiveness of British naval pressure than the frenzy of
hatred aroused against us in the breasts of the enemy.... Their hate is
the measure of their fear.... Whatever feats of arms the German Navy may
hereafter perform, the stigma of the baby-killers of Scarborough will
brand its officers and men while sailors sail the seas."

[Illustration: A GERMAN ISLAND ADDED TO THE EMPIRE BY THE AUSTRALIAN
FORCES: READING THE BRITISH PROCLAMATION AT RABAUL, NEU POMMERN.

The Australian Squadron arrived at Herbertshöhe, Neu Pommern, on September
11. After some fighting, the Germans surrendered, and, two days later, the
Union Jack was hoisted at Rabaul, the German capital. The proclamation was
read by Major Francis Heritage (facing Colonel W. Holmes, the central
figure in the photograph). For the benefit of the natives an address was
given in amusing "pidgin" English (see the "Times," November 16). Neu