nce. One of the
Christmas customs in the Navy is to decorate the mastheads with holly,
mistletoe, or evergreens. The mess-room tables are also decorated, and the
officers walk in procession through the messes, the Captain sampling the
fare.--[_Photos. by Newspaper Illustrations and Alfieri._]

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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 Herbertshoehe, 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
Pommern (formerly New Britain) is just east of New Guinea.]

Other attempts at "frightful frightfulness" on the part of these
"baby-killers" were a couple of aeroplane raids--of which the base
was probably Ostend--carried out on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
respectively--against Dover and Sheerness. It must be owned that they were
decidedly daring, yet in the nature of damp-squib affairs, as it turned
out. In the case of Dover, the bomb dropped was probably intended for the
Castle--a pretty conspicuous target, thou