Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-17
GROUP OF FIFTEEN SCHOOL BOYS
KILLED DURING GERMAN
CRUISER ATTACK.
ENGLAND REsENTFuL OVER
sHELLlNe uNFoRrlFlED TOWNS
Dead Number Nearly 100 and Many
More Are Wounded = eoldness Of
German Move conceded-PIans Be.
ing Made TO Save Citizens If Other
Cities Arc Attacked.

London, Dec 1.-THE crippling Of
telephone and telegraph wires by the
bombardment yesterday Of three ports
On the east coast Of England by Ger
man cruisers, together with the pre-
cautions thrown about the towns by
authorities, make it Impossible, even
today, more than twenty-four hours
after the shelling or Hartlepool. Scar
borough and Whitby, to obtain more
than All approximate estimate Of the
dead and wounded.
According to an official statement
today fi1ty-fve persons met death at
Hartlepool, while 115 were wounded.
At Scarborough, seventeen were dead.
and the Whitby casualties were placed
at two dead and two wounded. OF the
Hartlepool dead seven were soldiers,
while of the wounded fourteen be-
longed to the military. This does not
include the slightly wounded, who
bandaged their own hurts and left
town.
England Aroused.
Bristling with wrath and resentment
at this attack on tnfortified towns,
England is astir today as never since
war was declared. Another raid is
confidently expected and the, entire
machinery Of home defense has been
put n motion. On the east and south-
east coasts emergency committees are
at work, while in London plans to or
ganize a national guard of men too old
for military service. Are under way.
Altho raid on london seems re-
mote. yesterdays raid drove home the
realities Of war as little else could.
Arrangements have been made at
Deal and Dover to expedite the re-
moval Of the civilian population In case
OF an attack. These measures are in
tended to forestall any panic which
might impede military movements.
Do Not 6eiittls Feat.
Thru wireless telegraphy Berlin
promptly heard of this outcome of the
visit Of German cruisers to the Eng
!ish coast and this morning wireless
message from the German capital,
picked up here. reported details of the
attack as printed here in English
Steaming at high speed the German
cruisers. barring mishap. should have
reached their advanced naval base off
Helgoland. some time after midnight
last night. Thirty hours out of port
upon such venture in nine-Iaden
waters Is feat English papers do not
belittle and in his heart every English
man hopes that it will be essayed
again, and. II necessary again, until
the call Is paid once too often.
Cruisers Strew Mines.
It is presumed that behind them the
German cruisers strewed mines SO a
fleet of trawlers is now engaged in the
task Of sweeping.
The towns attacked yesterday has
assumed much of their normal condl-
tion today except in bereaved homes
and hospitals where the wounded were
quartered. Everywhere the sound Of
hammering was heard as the damage
was repaired.
The belief is general that the Ger
assistance Of spies. The remarka BILE
cuted was shown by the fact that not
a single incoming vessel saw the Ger
man ships prior to their sudden ap-
pearance.
The nearest parallel Of this visit
yesterday is found in the activity Of
John Paul Jones, who menaced Eng
lish coast towns in 1873.
Shell Kills Fiftsen School Boys.
A number Of victims Of Hartlepool
were women and children. Fifteen
school boys were killed by a single
ahell. only one boy in group escap-
ing. Ten persons were killed by the
collapse Of a building. One shell dam
aged a building hve miles from shore.
Naturalixsd Germans Arrested.
All naturalized Germans in the sea-
port Of Sunderland, a short distance
north Of the English coast towns which,
were bombarded by the Germans yes.
terday. were arrested over night, ac-
cording to q dispatch to the Exchange
Telegraph Company. s