The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-12-24
GERMANS lombard
THE BRITISH COAST
SHELLS CAUSE HEAVY LOSS or
LIFE AND MUCH PROPERTY
DAMAGE.
squadron creeps Through Fog and A..
tasks unfortIfled cities Without
Warning, Causing Panic Among
Inhabitants.

London,--A squadron OF swift Ger.
man cruisers crept through the fog
from the North sea Tuesday night
and turned the guns ON Hartlepool.
Scarborough and Whitby, unfortined
cities on the east coast OF England.
early "wednesday morning.
Some sixty or seventy English wo.
men and men were killed, according
to reports. Churches were ruined. no.
tells. dwellings and stores were de-
stroyed by the bombardment, which
endured forty minutes. after which
the Germans steamed northward from
Scarborough.
Hundreds fed In panic while the in.
vaders projectiles Numbered and
burst. setting on fire the structures
they had reduced to ruins. Others,
affrighted. took refuge in cellars
This Is the first time since 1898
that England has been struck by for.
eign foe.
The exploding shells of the bold
cruisers, who slipped through the
British feet and the guard ships and
lodged the mines thickly strewn In
the North sea. dug holes In the streets
Of Scarborough SO wide and deep that
q railway truck could pass through
them.
The gun flashes indicated that four
big warships were firing. One shell
that had been picked up was twelve
inches In diameter and thirty,three
inches long
Hurriedly called by wireless. British
warships FASTENED from the nearest
points to attack the enemy, whose in
yasion had not been unexpected by
the naval authorities and experts.
But the German cruiser force, made
up Of their faster cruisers. escaped In
the mist from the British squadron
sent to cut them on
While England has apprehended an
attack from the air, this demonatra.
tion has caused the most intense sur
prise and the fiercest anger that un.
fortified cities were attacked FoI
only Hartlepool has little fort at the
mouth OF the Tees.
The alarm that spread throughout
the kingdom resulted in calling out
the national reserves at Nottingham
In many other places units OF artillery
and infantry were sent to their sta.
tions In preparedness TO resist any
possible attack.
The number of the attacking force
has been yariously estimated at from
three TO six cruisers.
The attack began at Hartlepool,
about Eve minutes after s Wednesday
morning. when most people were at
breakfast II was like thunderboit
from clear sky, most persons think.
ing thunderstorm had arisen.
About atty proiectlles fell in Scar,
borough, Among the buildings that
suffered were the elaborate sea.bath,
ing establishment, St Columbus gen.
eral hospital, All Saints church and
the Parish Church hospital The roofs
% an these were damaged,
The people OF Whithy saw only two
warshlps They appeared OF that
town about . O'clock About thirty
shells fell In Whitby and its sur,
roundings. doing considerable damage,
chiefly In the comheld districts, where
several houses were wrecked. The
hlaloric cathedral was damaged Two
persons were killed and two wounded.
From the first invasion OF Britain
by Julius Caesar until today. when
che German squadron raided towns on
the northeast coast OF England, there
have been hfty.flve attempts 10 invade
Great nT!ssln aud Ireland