On September 15, the Prime Minister announced in the House of Commons that
he had asked the Home Secretary and the Attorney-General to take such
steps as seemed best adapted to provide for the investigation, from
evidence obtainable in this country, of accusations of outrage and
breaches of the laws of war on the part of Germany, This Committee
is constituted of the Right Hon. Viscount Bryce, O.M. Chairman; the
Right Hon. Sir Frederick Pollock, Professor of Jurisprudence; the Right
Hon. Sir Edward Clarke; Sir Alfred Hopkinson, Vice-Chancellor of the
Victoria University, Manchester, 1900-1913; Professor H.A.L. Fisher,
Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield University; and Mr. Harold Cox, Editor of the
"Edinburgh Review."--[_Photos. by Beresford, Russell, Winter, and Elliott
and Fry._]




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12--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914.--[Part 21]


[Illustration: "DRIVEN ASHORE AND BURNT": THE "EMDEN" BEACHED ON NORTH
KEELING ISLAND, AND A BOATLOAD OF PRISONERS COMING AWAY.]

An officer of H.M.A.S. "Sydney," which destroyed the German cruiser
"Emden" off the Cocos Islands on November 9, has given a vivid
account of the event in a private letter recently published in the
"Times." After describing the earlier part of the action, he writes:
"By now her three funnels and her foremast had been shot away,
and she was on fire aft. We turned again, and after giving her a
salvo or two with the starboard guns, saw her run ashore on North