The Spectator., 1914-12-18
ENEMY BOMBAROS
 ENGLISH SHORES
FIRST ATTACK IN MORE THAN A CENTURY MADE UPON BRlT-
 ANS COAST.
BRITISH CASUALTIES ARE 250
Attacking Fleet, Opposed by Few Weak Vessels, Escapes Unharm-
 ed to Home Waters.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
 London.-For the first time in more than 2 century England has been struck by foreign foe. A squadron of swift German cruisers crept through the fog Tuesday night to the eastern coast and turned their guns against the Britons.
 When day broke they began the bombardment of three important towns-Hartlepool, at the mouth Of the Tees; Whitby, 35 miles southward, and Scarborough, noted as pleasure resort, 15 miles beyond Hartlepool suffered most. There two battle crui- sers and an armored cruiser were en- gagged, and at this place the greatest loss of life occurred.
 The Admiralty announced Wednes- day that the German ships had eluded pursuit in fog and were returning safely to their home waters.
 Naval writers express the belief that six or eight ships were engaged. The Germans have available for such an attack the armored cruisers Butcher, Roon, Prinz Adalbert, Prinz Heinrich and Prinz Friederich Karl and more than 20 cruisers of a smaller class.
 The British war office fixes the number of dead at Hartlepool as sev- en soldiers and 22 civilians, and the wounded at IA soldiers and 50 civil ians At Scarborough. where a bat tie cruiser and an armored cruiser shelled the town. 13 casualties are re- ported, while at Whitby two were kill ed and two wounded.
 Men, women and children of the ci- william population were left dead or wounded, struck without warning while at breakfast or at work. In all, according to official estimates the cas- ualty list totals 110. of whom 31 are known to be dead.
 The churches were damaged; the gas works and lumber yards at Har- telpool were set afire and the abbey at Whitby was struck. The Baltimore hotel at Scarborough received the full effects of she'll A number of houses and shops were shattered and partly burned in each of the towns.
 The hostile squadron escaped in the mist after an encounter with coast guard vessels patrolling the neigh borhood, which were reinforced as soon as the presence of the Germans was signaled
 Latest returns of the German na- val raid shows that at Hartlepool 29 were killed and 50 injured, while at West Hartlepool 90 were killed and so injured.
 The Servian army, after fierce battle, have reoccupied Bel grade. according to Nish dispatch to Reuters Telegram Compny.
 The Austrians reoccupied Belgrade December ? after besieging it since July %. bombarding from batteries near Zemlin and from monitors on the Danube. A large portion of the city is said to nave been destroyed by
 
 The reoccupation by the Austrians of Dukla, an important point to the north of the Carpathians on line south of Przemysl and Cracow, but nearer to the former, was announced by the Austrian General Staff in Vii enna. The Austrians claim to have captured 9.o00 Russians.
 Poland is fast becoming another Belgium in point of suffering while the opposing armies drive each other back and forth, occupy and reoccupy cities and villages and inflict upon the inhabitants bombardments similar to those suffered in Belgium and in northern France.
 More than 800 Polish towns have been ruined, according to correspond ents. Each army accuses the other of footing and cruelty. The flight of the civilians from Lodz was one of the most tragic episodes of the war, while one correspondent pictures the fate of Kalisz as a repetition of Lou vain, with the slaughter of 400 civ ilians and the sacking of the city.
 The Turkish battleship Messudieh-- a vessel of 10000 tons--has been tor pedoed by a British submarine in the Dardanelles. The British Admiralty report issued Monday declares that when last seen, the Messudieh was sinking by the stern. She carried 600 men.
 American Consul Latham at Punta Arenas cabled the State Department that the German cruiser had reached that port safely and unAnjured.