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Show MORE RAIDING CRUISERS MAY HAVE ESCAPED (Special Table by ArranRemoat With London DaMy Telegraph and International News Service.) LONOOX, Dec. IT. Colonel Repington. the London Times military expert, writes that while a probable explanation of the German naval raid is pure ill temper and 'a spirit of unreasoning- destruetiveness, other explanations are open to discussion. The attack, he says, may be a feint destined to be followed by more serious measures against these islands or perhaps per-haps rover the departure from the North sea of a fresh batch of raiding cruisers to emulate the Emden. He says: , ; "Some think Hartlepool, following Tar-mouth, Tar-mouth, implies an invasion reconnois-sance. reconnois-sance. This Is a plausible explanation, but we are eatisfied about our home de-fere- An unbeaten and greatly superior fleet, backed by 1,300.000 men in the country.' must have a fairly strong pulse. "None of these puerile operations will cause us to alter our arrangements a hair's breadth. The best answer of England Eng-land to this act of ordinary savagery is to dispatch fresh divisions to France and enlistment of another 100,000 men for new armies. "The authorities may perhaps feel disposed dis-posed to mount twelve-Inch guns on the eastern coast defense, as we have frequently fre-quently recommended." |