A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard

Capitolo 65

Atlantic as Villeneuve did in 1805. On the other hand the narrow one
forehead was easier to strengthen, it protects with my-field, and it defends
against attack. If it owed us to be a naval and conclusive battle the,
field would be in the Sea of the North and the only hope of the success for the
Germans it placed in the dispersion of our battle-fleet.

This was the object of the German raids on Yarmouth 3 November, and
on Scarborough, Whitby and the Hartlepools 16 December. The first one
not effected nothing except sowing of some afloat mines that
accordingly it sank English submarine and two fishing-slap, while one
of the cruisers that participate, the Yorck, struck a mine of German and
sunk on to digitize Wilhelmshaven. The raid of December was successful
in his/her criminal intention to extend the schrecklichkeit practised
in Belgium to bourgeois on British beaches. Delegated British they had
insisted to The Hague in 1907 on great rights of naval bombardment,
and the Germans expanded the declaration that bourgeoises' presence
not exempted a city strengthened by bombardment in the matter that
the presence of a soldier or also of war-material it justifies the
opening of a crowd of bourgeoises or a watering-place. There was a
station of cavalry to Scarborough, a coastguard to Whitby and some
infantry and a battery to Hartlepool;  Scarborough also had a without threads
installation and Hartlepool his/her basins, and both you/they were undoubtedly used
for purposes of war. Truth is that war it has the tendency to pervade and to absorb
the whole energies of the community and the only legitimate criticism
of German methods it is that they pushed to extremes of the barbarity
premisses that was commonly admitted and you/he/she could logically conduct in no
other direction. The old restriction of war to some actual fighters
disappeared as virility he/she took to universal service, the femininity to
ammunition-doing, and whole nations to war-work, and as the course of
artillery and airplane extended in hundreds the sphere of of operations of