Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-17
All England Terrorized by
Dombardment of Towns
Along Its Coast.
OVER FIFTY ARE SLAIN
OnB Able to Guess at Casualty
TotaIS-AII of Attacking
Ships Escape.

London. Dec 17.-Crippling OF tele-
,soae and telegraph wires by the bonn
ssrdment yesterday of three ports on
,ss east coast OF England by German
cruisers, together with precautions
noz-a about these towns by police
.-d military authorities. made it i'm
,ossible. even today. more than "A
bours after the shelling of Scar
sorough. the HartlepooIs and Whitby.
% obtain more than az approximate
,stimate Of the civilian dead and
wounded
According 10 an official statement to
Szy. 35 persons we're killed in the Hart
lspools. and rs wounded. At Scar
borough there are II dead and 30
zounded. Official and unofficial esti-
mates place the Whitby casualties at
,Eo dead and two wounded. OF the
EsrtIepOcls casualties seven of the dead
rsre soldiers. while Of the wounded Il
bslozged 10 the military. The wound
q number close 10 a hundred a;d fifty
persons. This does not include slight
~
heir own hurts aad left town on the
fist trains.
Another Raid Expected.
BristlinE with wrath in resentment
a. attack on unfortifed towns England
/ sstir today as never since the war
vas declared. Another raid Is cClfi-
Gently expected and the entire machin-
VI OF home defeusg-hss been put into
notion.
Plans to organize a national guard
q men too old for military service are
1-dsr way in London Although a
German raid on London seems remote
yesterdays episode drove home the
realities OF war as nothing else could
Attempts have been made at Deal and
Dover to expedite removal of the civil
ian population in case OF an attack
Stssming al high speed. the Ger
nan raiders. barring mishap, should
have reached their advance naval base
on Helgoland sometime after mid .
night last night. the trip requiring
about fifteen hours. Thirty hours out
Of port on such a venture in mine I
laden waters is a feat English papers f.
DO no, belittle.
Mines strewn In Wake. (
Il is presumed that behind them the .
German cruisers strewed mines, and I
feet Of trawlers is now out engaged I.
in the task OF sweeping.
The towns attacked had resumed /
nuch OF the normal appearance today. !!
except in bereaved homes and hos
pitals. Everywhere the sound OF 4
hsmmerinE was heard as the damage /
vas being repaired. Belief Is general {
the Germans had the assistance OF
spies. The raid was executed with (
remarkable secrecy. The nearest par
allel to this visit is found in the ac-
uvities OF John Paul Jones. terror of
English shipping. who menaced Eng
Ash coast towns In 1879.
One Shell Kills IS Boys.
number OF the victims in Hartle-
POOL we're women and children. FIT
teen school boys were killed by sin
Ele shell Only one boy in the group
escaped Ten persons we're killed in
ne collapse OF the building in which
hey were taking shelter. One shell
eansged building FIVE miles from
shore
The German naval raid has had the
eject OF stimulating recruiting in the
British Isles.
All naturalized Germans in the
port Of Sunderland. near the English
owns bombarded yesterday, were ar
rested over night. according to dis
Patch Il Is believed there are spies
among them
Introductory Greetings.
Berlin, Dec. 1.-THE Boersen Zeit-
ing says. Iron greetings thrown by
our naval pieces on the English coast
are possibly an indication that greater
eTents are imminent"