Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1914-12-19
GERMANS lombard
THE BRITISH COAST
SHELLS CAUSE HEAVY LOSS or
LIFE AND MUCH PROPERTY
DAMAGE.
Squadron creeps Through Fog and A.
tacks Unfortified Cities Without
Warning, Causing Panic Among
inhabitants.

London.--A squadron of swift Ger
man cruisers erept through the fog
from the North sea Tuesday night
and turned the guns ON Hartlepool
scarborough and Whitby, unfortified
cities on the east coast of England.
carly 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
streyed by the bombardment, which
endured forty minutes, after which
he Germans steamed northward from
Scarborough,
Hundreds fled in panic while the in,
vaders projectiles Numbered and
burst, setting ON fire the structures
hey had reduced to ruins. Others
4ffrighted, took refuge in cellars.
This is the first time since 1873
chat England has been struck by for
eign foe
The exploding shells of the bolt
cruisers, who slipped through the
British fleet 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 thai
railway truck could pass through
them.
The gun flashes indicated that foui
Dig warships were firing. One shell
hat 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
gasion had not been unexpected by
he naval authorities and experts.
But the German cruiser force, made
up of their faster cruisers escaped In
he mist from the British squadron
sent to cut them off.
While England has apprehended an
attack from the air, this demonstra
ion has caused the most intense sur
)rise and the hercest anger that un
certified cities were attacked. Fol
My Hartlepool has little fort at the
mouth of the Tees.
The alarm that spread throughout
The kingdom resulted in calling oui
he national reserves at Nottingham
many other places units OF artillery
md infantry were sent to their sta
ions in preparedness to resist any
possible attack.
The number of the attacking force
has been yarously estimated at from
hree to six cruisers.
The attack began at Hartlepool
about five minutes after Wednesday
morning, when most people were al
breakfast. 1t was like thunderbolt
from a clear sky, most persons think
ing thunderstorm had arisen.
About fifty projeet!les fell in Scar
borough. Among the buildings thai
suffered were the elaborate sea1bath
ing establishment, st. Columbus gen
eral hospital, All Saints church and
The Parish Church hospital. The roofs
Of al these were damaged.
The people of Whitby saw only two
warships, They appeared off 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
historic cathedral was damaged. Two
persons were killed and two wounded.
From the first invasion Of Britain
by julius Caesar until today, when
the German squadron raided towns ON
the northeast coast of England, there
have been fifty-fye attempts to invade