New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-18

here two important facts connected
with the German raid were brought 70
light. These are that two OF the war
ships which attacked Scarborough were
the same as attacked Whitby, and that
one was the battle cruiser Won Moltke,
sister ship 10 the battle cruiser Goe-
hen. A third was smaller armored
cruiser. The three approached Whltoy
from the south az great speed, having
left their companion ships to go SOUTH
ward past Filey and Marlborough
Head for an unknown destination.
The Won Moltke and companion
cruiser manpuvred off Whitby for sew
eral minutes and came to dead stop
before proceeding TO shell the coast
guard station, and the coast guard man
Who deciphered the Won Moltke's name
told me they were both flying the
British white ensign. He thought at
first thew were British cruisers in pur-
suit of the Germans who had been
bombarding Hartlepool, Of which ne
had been informed by telephone. The
first she'll struck a cliff, but the sec
ond fell in the middle of the coast
guard signal station. instantly Killing
the coast guard, who was rushing 70
warn his wife of the danger The
third shot wounded Boy Scout so
badly that he died to-day.
Having, as they evidently believed
wrecked the coastguard station the
ships heightened their range and de.
moiisbed the corner OF the lodge or
Wbitbv Abbey. an ancient structure.
Then having finished with that they
proceeded TO land their shells over the
xiii right into the centre Of the resi-
dental part of the town. Proof that
thew intended TO deal death and de-
struction to non-combatants is afford
ed By the fact that now they began to
FIRE shrapnel, and | saw walls peck
marked and windows bored clean by
shrapnel bullets Here railway EN-
Move was killed while driving cart,
whereas the horse was uninjured, and
II is astonishing there we're so few
deaths in Whitby-only three-al-
though many were injured by glass and
small fragments of shells.
The spirit Of the people is astonish-
inglv calm. Life went on to-day as
usual. as though business had not been
UNINTERRUPTED Strangely enough, few
complaints were heard of the immense
damage to property, which in Whitby
~ their possession. A large number
alone is estimated at 100000. A resi-
dent showed me to-day the head of a
4-inch she'll that had destroyed his
home.
"What will you sell it for?" ! asked.
"Well," he said, dts cost me the best
part Of Il 900, but wouldn't sell 1t for
that"
A great trade is done in these frag--
ments of shells and people are proud
of school children passed along the
path Of shell fire few minutes before
the bombardment began.
Whatever the Germans may say
about Hartlepool being fortified, or
even Scarborough, there can be no pre-
tence that Whitby is anything but an
absolutely defenceless town, for there
are not even any trenches there. And
if these towns had not been darkened
the bombardment undoubtedly would
have begun before s o'clock, as the
ships were waiting off shore for a
couple of hours for sufficient daylight
to enable them to take aim. curious
feature of the peoples attitude was
that they constantly were repeating
the question::
what will Americans do after this?
Won't they feel like coming in nowT