comes of having a Liberal Government." In
all, about 6,000 people left the town immediately and did not return for
some days.

Similar were the scenes enacted in Whitby when the turn of that town
came. Only two persons were killed in that town, while thirteen
casualties were reported from Scarborough.

The raid immediately became the subject for discussion in the newspapers
of every country on the globe. In England it was bitterly denounced, and
the term "baby killers" was applied to the men of the German navy. In
Germany it was justified on the ground that the German admiralty had
information and proof that the bombarded cities were fortified, and
therefore, under international law, subject to bombardment. Nor did the
German journalists lose the opportunity to declare that Great Britain no
longer ruled the waves nor to show pride over the fact that their fleet
had successfully left the German coast and had successfully returned to
its home port. The war, they said, had been brought to England's door.

The year 1914 ended gloomily for the British public; nothing could have
disappointed them more than the failure to catch the Germans. Nor did
the new year open brightly for Britain, for on the first day of January,
1915, there came the news of disaster to the _Formidable_, sister ship
to the _Bulwark_. The lesson of the _Hogue_, _Cressy_, and _Aboukir_ had
not been learned, for this ship went down under the same circumstances.
While patrolling near Torbay during a night on which there was a bright
moon and a calm sea, this ship, in company with seven other large ships
unaccompanied by a "screen" of destroyers, was hit by a torpedo fired
from a German submarine. Most of her crew were asleep when the torpedo
struck and damaged the engine room so much that no lights could be
turned on. In the darkness they hurried to the deck, which was slanting
from her list. In obedience to orders issued by the admiralty after the
sinking of the _Cressy_ and the ships with her, the rest of the fleet
immediately sailed away from the scene, so that no more of them would be
hit. Only a light cruiser stood by the sinking _Formidable_. A second
torpedo struck her and this had the effect of letting water into her
hold on the side which was slowly coming out of the water. She took a
position with even keel after that, and this fact enabled most of her
crew to get off safely before she sank.

Once more the Germans were to attempt a raid on the