It hardly seems worth contradict:
the © Oxtasiattecher Llayd's" picturesque accounts of Scar. borough's defences but the state ment quoted yesterday from the tung" about a battery of six 15.-in guns is rather too strong to be pass: ed. Up to August 31 last Scarborough was totally undefended. The "Castle" was in ruins, nothing much left of it but a room used as a museum, The "barracks" would scarcely accommodate fifty men, the only "gun" was a relic of ancient wars, an ornament of the pudic' square. The bay is very shallow with a reef of rocks which makes it foul anchorage, fact which sufciently explains why Scarborough is the very reverse of an artificial fortified point. There is wireless apparatus, but as for the 15-in. guns,—well, these are valuable possessions.' Would they be placed at unimportant a point? And would light German cruisers venture within range of them? Really the Ontasiatischer Lloyd" ought to have learnt more sense by now, whatever it had at the beginning of the war, than to reproduce stich stuff.
Jan. 11.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.