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Lamb, a guard ON t.c first tram winch
reached Hull from SrtrburouSh said that
he had been watkins alors the shore
some time before his train Was due to
depart.
at was very misty he said. land
could not make out any vessels out at
sea So far as ! know the first shell
fell at s :05 A. NJ. ard wren our train
left At s:25 \ NJ the shells were sim
coming | saw one strike a chemists
shop near the station and the shop sim
ply went to pieces and spread out on the
ground"
The hombardmeut u Hartlcpool lasted
at least twenty-five minutes. press
association despatch from Midd,esbpro
says tadt from two 30 ~ Warships were
engaged in shellrg Wet Hartlapool and
the fort The time given OF the attacks
| at Scarborough and Whithy makes It
certain that different ships participated
in the three a;d.Es. FT the Twenty-Five
! minutes the h.mhardme't lasted At
iIirtlepool shells i,ll Ia all parts OF tho
rNrivins industrial city, which has pop
ulatlon of $4,000
Redcar, ten miles from Hartlepool. were
| aroused by the noise OF heavy firing, and
| they saw, FAR Off the coast three Warships
| In action. These appeared to he throwing
| shells at the fort on the Tees, but the
| local military authorities drove All civil
It could he ascertaaod what target ,he
! ships We're Smelling The first STAGES #
! the bomhardmeut were especially severe.
/ Toward the end Of half AN hour Oh"
| German fire weakened considerable and
| the gunners fred much more SLOWLY, mp
/ parently taking careful aim.
Ii was shortly after o'clock That the
| squadron appeared of shore and immedi-
ately opened a violent homhlrdmeut, 'No
result o. which was that portions 81 the
town were considerably d1magcd ana
| many men. women and childr'n were
! killed. TArtlepoOl was hOmhlrded on
three sides, and II Is said that ships
came within half a mile ~ tine shore line
and that they Few the British nag The
Hard forts replied VIGOROUSLY. Some un-
exploded i9 inch shells We're picked M
after the squadron departed. one shell
struck the gas works, which was dam
aged,
Two ladies named Mckay. living on Tho
ciiff terrace. sent their servant 20 safety
hut remained In the house. \ shell came
through the roof ~ their bedroom and
both were killed In Dean street family
father. mother and SIX children were
killed only one ch'll IN another family
escaped a father, mother and two chill
dren were killed by shells which Wrn'
through the root of a church The vicar
Canon Ormshy. was n bed when the BON
blrdment began VITA his households II,
took refuge in the cellar His house wac
unroofC1 and most Of tho rooms weI,
ddmlg Il, but no one there was injured.
Among the victims were a rumhcr ~
children on their way "a school shell
fell IN the midst of "A group Of volunteer
I who we're watching tN- lrurlhl,iuirii
from the coast line and seven were killed
Adjt, Avery OF the Salvation Army los
his lfe He leaves a widow ana for
children some timber y2Ids caught fr'
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LURE FOR BRITISH.
Washington Experts Believe Ger
mans Set Tran.

NhsHINGTuN. Dec l6.--Naval officers
were keeny Interested to-day IN reports
OF the German raid ON the English coast.
The German stroke Is regarded here a.
merely another daring venture undertaken
partly for tho moral effect OF success
ful dash aud return and partly in the
hop" that some British warships might
he lured to pursuit of the raiders, running
TN" rsk Of CnCouuteriug German mines.
Il j. also the opinion her" that tn"
rNp.u., wa, attempted for the purpose
of unS'ttug Tho practical humiliation If
the German squadron in the south Al
lau'lr
Scarborough is the point on the Eugllsn
coast nearest to Heigulond. the outpost
OF the German naval base Of operations
The towns selected for bombt rdmcnt
arc. with tho exception OF West Hartlc-
pool. mfortihed places The Germans
could select lL1nt armorod vessels for the
homhardment without being exposed to
amy danger OF destruction from the enemy
ON shore. Had Scarborough been defended
with modern coast defence guns, IT is
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Tzvo Famous Old Churches
Damaged in Bombardment

Franc or Poland In those thirty min
utos England had her first bitter taste
OF warfare or hcr own soil only one
OF the towns attacked WAS defended by
a r,--HIr;lepoo,-wh there is 4
small fou Al the mouth OF the River
Tees There WAS an obsolete battery at
Scarborough. which was useless against
the powerful guns 81 the German cruisers.
Whithy was utterly defencelcss.
Tho fort at Hartl,pooI made Il stout
fight Of H. 'd the.e is a hint in the
Admiralty communication that the guns
OF this fort forced the Germans to with
draw !, seems more probable however.
that the Germans were quick to catch the
wireless alarm that was flashed to Sir
John Jclhcpe's battle fleet. and ADAM
doucd the attack to give them a chance
to es,lp. before the British ships came
UP. Ia tbs i: appears. they We're not
entirely successful.
In those thirty minutes when England
was subjected to a small portion OF the
fright and horrors that have shaken and
devastated Belgium many business and
priva.e houses were shattered or set on
fire. st Martins Church in Scarborough.
crowded with a congregation attending
Communion service was hit twice tho
gas works AZ Scarborough Were partially
destroyed the historic abbey at Whi.b by
was greatly damaged ana set on fire, and
many persons were struck dead before
they had tim. TO realize even the signih-
canoe OF TIE laundering suns. II was at
Whitby Tat Robin Hood is supposed to
have lived.
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JOHN PAUL JONES FOUGHT
BATTLE NEAR SCARBOROUGH

Scarborough, Hor,lepool and Whitley.
the three towns bombard,d 10y the Ger
mans yesterday. are on the northeast
coast of ENGLAND. on the North Sea and
Ilwos. directly opposite the German navt
bases at ki"l and lle'soland. Har,lcpool,
tur'h'st uor'h, is north %; Tees Bay and
foriy-!iVe miles northwes; OF scarborough.
1t rs an important seaport and has a popu-
lat IN of about 2j.oOu
Whithy * on the mouth oC the River
ESk, and is a seaside rcsor, with = popu-
lation of abou, I@.oo0. Scarborough, one
Of the most famous of British watering
places is thirty-sevrn miles northeast of
1t has population normally OF 5000.
Scarborough and Whithy are in Yorkshire,
IIartopoo, IN Durham
j, was off Marlborough Head, a promon-
tory "A few miles south If Scarborough,
that John Paul Jones Ia the Bon lIomme
Richard had his celebrated battle with
the British irlgdtc Scraps in the Revu-
lutionary war. The hostile cannon could
be heard plainly IN The resort and there
was great ar for time that the vie
tor'ous Yankee skipper would turn MS
guns on the town. But Jones had TO 20
aboard the Scraps when his own ship
sank and was glad enough to get away
without any further exploits. This was
IN" nearest Scarborough had been to a
bomhardmeut and II has not been molested
since, until Yesterday.
Scarborough Was a stronghold OF great
Importance IN the Middle Ages and he
great peninsula or Scaur, from which IL
takes lie name. bears upon rs crest the
ruins OF an ancient Norman castle Scar
borough is what * known as a municipal
and parliamentary borough 1t received
It's charter in 1881 from Henry IL, who
had great castle there, aud for nearly
300 years has been one ot the most popular
seaside resorts in the British Isles II is
IN that part VI Yorkshire known as the
North Riding and Is connected with Lon
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british Scour North soc.

The naval preparations hiv, been cncr-
getlc and elaborate Apparently the Ad-
miral'Ns quickly formed plan OF cutting
the German squadron m 'roU IS refuge
at Holgo,and or in the mouth ut the Elhe
was frustrated by bad weather and the
speed OF the German ships, hut IL Is not
Vet known whether or not The Germans
have reached their own base or whether
some ships are stiN az sea. II can be
said that a very powerful! l|r.tlsh re'. is
scattered over the North Sea searching
for the German ships.
The establishment that England was the
victim Of surprise attack Is AL the
greater because to-uayS raid Was not
the first tia, the German navy has made
against British coast towns. On Novrm-
her 3 German cruiser squadron eludcd
tho British patrol ships and stood in
so closely 10 yarmouth that shells were
dropped within "A few hundred Yards Of
the naval station. When a British squad
ron came up the German ships fled, drop
ping mines as they went The British
submarine p-l was sunk nv ore %
these mines, and the Ugh, cruiser Halycon
was damaEed ny German shc! FIRE 7Nc
Germans rot away easily ON that ooca-
sion.
|, was reported to-day that exactly tho
same tactics were used this morning and
hat the Germans dropped mines as they
steamed away from the coast, srotting
the SEA with them Wherever the plrh OF a
pursuing Brit sh Vcs'c l might 'ie,
At Whithy soldier who was doing
sentry duty at the coast guard station SO
narrowly ESCAPED that swell tore of the
b back ~ his OverCont without harm'H :
I him, \ man ard his daughter were
walking together Tho same shell that
snimned the feathers Of the dlugNter's
/ hat crushed the fathers foot TIE floor
~ a room occupied by au aged. hodr.d-
/ der woman, was shot away hut tho IN.
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she'll XIII. Four Outright.

ing near the centre OF the town, Was
demolished
| she'll Kills Four Outright.
Four persons We're Killed by shell
which exploded in a house where they
| We're living. one of the first persons
killed In Scarborough was Mrs. Merry
weather. She Was standing behind the
counter OF shop owned by her husband
A smell ripped through the walls and
ended her life as she was talking TO her
| husband. who stood only a few yards
away. by miracle he escaped serious
| Injury. but was buried for some time IN
a mass of debris. EX-AldeFmsn Hall. a
justice ot the peace. was killed while
he was dressing. and a moment later his
Sfdndchild was hit by piece OF shell
and instantly killed. \ postman deliver
ing letters was struck dead.
/ The bodies Of the dead were taken to
/ The mortuary. while the injured. many
/ Of whom were hurt seriously We're hur-
ried - hospitals. This work was car
! ried on IN a continuous rain OF shells
, Special constables at great personal risk
conducted the old and iufirm to places of
safety underground The hospital itself
was struck, but no one was injured. The
sea bath inirmary attached TO the hos
pltal was badly damaged, but the patients.
who included a number OF Belgian SOL
diers escaped injury.
Very fortunately few persons were in
the streets when the German warships
opened fire without notice or warning.
NAM were sim abed and rushed forth
IN scanty attire to learn the meaning =
the crash OF guns and the shrieks and
screams they heard from all directions
For some time there was a very rea
panic, as the town was utterly helpless
and It was believed that the Germans
would continue the attack until all Scar
borough was battered to pieces. There
! fore the surge OF the inhabitants to the
! interior took place almost at once. Thou
| sands rushed INTO the country. running
bieath!essly when they could not md a
conveyance. Many went to Hull, spread
! ing the alarm and carrying the news
Later in the day the Mayor issued a
! proclamation warning the citizens NJ; TO
| touch any uneXplodsd shells md that in
! formation as TO the position OF these
| shells could be obtained At any police
| station.
! At Scarborough. the queen OF English
watering places" as the town is frequently
called the line Of the German bombarl-
ment was directly across the harbor as
| far az the wireless station and then along
! the coast TO the suburb OF Falsgrave.
| There was "A large chimney on the brick
| works which was RACED 10 the ground and
| damage was done to the gas works. A
! hoe WAS blown in the roof OF All Saint
| Church AT FalsgTave.
Arthur Wood, his wife and a son, aged
| -. ..Ilvcd iu London his afternoon
| Mr. Wood rel ted what he had seen and
! heard 1T Scarborough He was wounded
! by fragments of d she'll which struck
| him in the head Mr.. wood sad he
| thought the bomhlrdmeut lasted three
| quarters of an hour. tn" shciling was
| incesS 1T. Two cruiser, no believed.
were engaged, and during the whoe time
! they slowly moved in noWherly direc-
| tlun His opinion is that they stood on
about two miles, hut the weather was
SO hazy that he couldn't see them clearly,
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lroniclaI news Of the shelving OF these
three scacoast towns adds .ttlc TO the
official announcements What sticks IN
the british mind IL that for the first time
i'm Two centuries British towns have been
shelled by a foreign foe ana British blood
split on British soil,
4 refugee named Woods says that tho
accuracy OF the German fire at Scarbpr-
ough was wonderful. They had, he said,
good knowledge of the arrangement or
the town and the location OF important
buildings There can be no question but
that more than one ship was enGagcd.
lurh railway officials who visited scar
borough say that the people there were
ut midday curiousy examining the
wrecked buildings OF the Grand Hotel
and other structures fallen to pieces un-
der German shells and were staring as
II they were IN "a terrible dream. As FAR
as the officials could see the Grand
Ilute, had been hit twelve times, and
tacro were ten wide holes In the walls
In another case shell passed through
a bedroom of house where an official
was staying The mistress OF the house
lay IN bed. and the shell passed over her
within two feet of her head, she es-
capped injury Shells dropped IN front
o; the Prince OF Wa,cs boarding hou se
tearing up the ground for distance bu,
doing little damage postman was
Killed while In the act Of handing let
ter 20 = girl, who also was killed.
In York place, along Bellevue ter
race IN Scf,lby place and on the South
cur there are dozens OF ruined houses
Roofs were ripp"d off holes wore tori
. IN the wills Windows and doors wer,
Shot away, Broken glass and spliwcrcd
tNuber cover the streets Hotels board.
ing houses, private houses ana shops
. snfi"i tel alike, The railway sr'rtion wus
/ In the line OF fire and suffered dis ~
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Aimed Mt Wireless station.

Their first effort" Mr.. Wood said,
was to hit tAe wireless station, but
they missed it c'ch time. They next
tried to reach me electric works, hut the
shots went wide Considerable damage
was done TO neighbor!ns property,
Il was standing near a butchers shop
few doors from my house when II she'll
scmmcd to burst right over my h"tl.
one o. tho frasments passed within Il
few inches of me, struck a vindows!N
and glanced to my head. Another frag-
meut, evidently almost spent, struck my
hoy and made deep cut on his head
was partly unconscious for "A time, hu,
about $40 A. NJ. | persuaded my wife
and boy to take refuge IN the cellar While
! got together few necessary belong
ings. So that We could go away as soon
as poss bile. Shells seemed 70 be falling
On all sides Along the Hanover road
Their were collected very soon heaps OF
masonry, states and other debris Houses
We're falling in,
SHORTY after the bombardment COM
mcutcI the guns of the castle began "a
r,pl. .. re German ships, and from then
ON Ala, Germans paid moro attention "a
the castle. Quite hundred houses in
MANY parts of the town were burning
however. and all OF the largest and tall
rst buildings were damaged in some way
| Nearly an thr houses on the sea front
were demolished Onc sin II went through
tine house of Mr. Bcaforth ON the lis
plauade Road, then passed clean through
three other houses and finally landed IN
/ the Scarboroush bowling Gardens, for
( tuuttrly not killing anybody
TWO soldiers Wup came from Scarbor
! ouch said there was haH" ON the soi
and that when they looked ont to So,
! they could just disC"'u cruiser "pptv
unity about ,,gHt mites from the coast.
| No. ~ h.. Il
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don by the North Eastern Rauvd,
Whitby, also IN the North K.n.z -
Yorkshire. Is about half way .Nt'H
SCARBOROUGH and Hart!epoo,. Its u..,. .s.
cbratcd feature IL the famous Aun.. -
- llllda. great ruin ON the s.gu;
OF the east Clln. 1t was iruf. n
of pswy. King OF Northumhr!a, ~ 49,. ~
lulHlment OF "A vow OF a N4,'urt UNrr
i'nda. king Of Mercia The existing ~..rs
comprise part Of the Elrly IMgl.-. .t..
the north trlnsept, also Early Er-
nut OF later date, ana IT,, rich y .....'.''1
nave. ON the south SId" are i.".
OF 'lo'stcrS and doWcst.c build .'r.
tacdmon, the Northumhri1u I..'. ,.1
IN the abbey and cross stl., ,.H..
rates him. Adjoining the abbey q.
Han, the seat Of the CholWI,N tt'
Nearby Is the PARISH churc. of - N.r'
originally Norman. and efiN s.oNrS
traces OF the early building
Whltby was a famous whaling ''t
sixty years ago, hut has declined ''-
| portanc", although its fore so '.. p.
stlIl considerable, The hotels dl' Do A'si
along the cliffs ana the tpvp '-
built on both banks Of tho E-h vi -' -
joins the sea. The harbor is i..'" $
! At It's entrance by stone PIERS rIn.u ~
out $50 yards. en- one OF IN Sc
lighthouse rising eighty-thrce feet a.. "
/ tho sea
IIartepool is all important s'drorr ''t
manufacturing town Together 9" "
Hartlepool. which has 6a.0Up inhta t''
II has vast system Of docks af' -
| fore the war had hig re, 49,
/ the Baltic ports ana also W' ~ ~.
/ burg, Antwerp and Rotterdam Ilr 1'
! c!pal industries are sh.phu..G ua On
! founding ana the construction o. ..' -
| engines.
West Hartlepool ia a modern '" 4
has many handsome luiilUp-. ~
beautiful churches. municipal O. -+
an AthenTum and public lhr.' 70
is 2i7 miles from London tr
/ station OF tho Northeastern E..,t.. ''
! has East lIdrtlcpuol also
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town from distance - about three
miles. They fired uutl . o'clock. and
about thirty shells fell into the town.
The Abbey oi st linda. on tho Fast
GIN. was made target deliberately for
It was or" Of the FIRST structures 90
Whithy to suficr l. stood out boldly on
III" clin aud made an easy AMI COM
spicuous target The coastg uaId station
on the edg, gf the cliU WIS destroyed.
and in front of the lin many hpusrs
adjoining the able. were ruined. Tur
various buildings composing tho 3bacy
property were the principal places dam
ag'd. The first Shot nrcl fol in a add
behind the abbey. and from then On
in quick succession .hers dropped on
or about the ancient church
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Good Bull Point,
Say London Brokers.

Special Cabie Despatch 10 Tue SuS.
LoSpoN. Dec. iG.-Comment of the
brokers in Throgmorton street on the
bombardment to-day Of unfortified
east coast towns was that It was the
best bun point for some time" The
brokers expressed the belief that now
that the German ships have shown
themselves in the open their destruc-
ton will not he long delayed.
American securities were less ac-
tive to-day and prices were adjusted
to the lower New York Levels. Buy
Ing orders were soon forthcoming.
however. and prices Of many stocks
advanced.
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Fire starts In scarborough.

u was not yet clear daylight, since the
sun does not rise along that part Of the
coat until S;0l \. NJ, and there was a
haze out at sea. The people who rushed
from their homes, startled by the FIST
IJar OF cannon and the explosion OF he
shell that cropped near the railway sta
zion. could not yet make out the Ger
man ships They could see the flashes
That stabbed the darkness when tho guns
were Nr,l Many persons, unaware Of
trs retl nature Of tn, tirng imaElucd for
;ha moment that n British squadron was
- tarao, practice OF the coast. Then
Tho sus.s came thick and fast causing
widespread loss Of life aud ruin TO prop
Cr'y
Roofs were smashed in houses whore tho
people Nr'a hardly awake. The Balmotal
Hotel WIS u't ana quickly took fire. This
wus tar Ms, iuNWdtun that many per
slus DO DISTANT pI.ts of the town had that
tlc GcrmrN. were attacking The hot,
:. FOO Thorough, where the destruction
v0s very GREAT
tn" suols made holes in the ground pig
enough o. bold railway COACHES Tao
famous Grand llo'I, u.rahcd on the ci II
HcIl. H.- ryr'.a,lr demolished. Hllf \
'.z.u -Hl.a holes show I'm the walls ot
-r' upper -iul .s, while 'nc walls Of tho
over s'f'.a Ha ~. coward front, n
lm1 tND Laws. dining room and restau.
ants. wore shattered \ picture palace
.Nt ''pr ~ 90, ,Irlul Hotel suffered heavy
c'u'E- \ portion OF the elm tramway
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shells In Centre Of city.

Most .? the city WAS calmly at break
fast when suddenly heavy firing was
heard from the sea. We thought at hr~.
that British torpedo boat dostroyerS We're
firing AT a German submarine. Tho firing
Vas 50 close to the harbor front that
many persons started to the seaside to
.c what was happening. Almost Imme-
lately shells began failing IN the CEN
trad part of tho city. Houses that Were
struck by proicctiles sent up great clouds
OF smoke and the wreckage tumbled out
ward into the streets.
I'VE did not have fear of tho Ger
mans landing men, even after we learned
that they had assembled ships OFF the
port, for we believed that the forts would
stop that and We know ,hIt the rarr.sous
had been heavily increased
small fires started in several quar-
tors We could see smoke over tho dis
trict where a number OF pottcrics are
located and we surmiscd that one Of the
buildings was burning Shells also dropped
IN tho shiphuldlng yards, setting fire to
stacks Of timber.
MANY persons were seized with panic
and started TO run toward the railway
stations or toward tho road leading to
the countryside. \ few carried cherished
household articles. Others left all be-
hiud.'
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Hnid Perfectly Organized.

Hart pool and Scarborough are forty.
two m Leg apart. with Whitby about midi
way between them ObN ously the Ger
mans had organized the raid perfec lv.
Their squadron OF probably eight cruisers
divided helor. approaching he coast. Tvs o
cruisers TO K station Of Hartlepool, two
lay of Whltby and four made the at
tack on scarborough. II IS also appdr-
,nt that the raiders were supplied wi'h
most nporttn- details, such as the ne,es
sdry rang. the !ocat!on OF railway sta
lions and wire. - plants and the position
of public buildings
Having tlat Information they were abb
70 acc mpish a tremendous amount of
destruction in a very few minutes. No
time was wasted. They came out of the
night with tori. BILE suddenness, struck with
all their power and slipped away like
ghosts
Their main attack was against Scarbor-
ough At this point they came startlingly
close to the coast linz, as near as they
dared to risk the grounding of their
cruisers. They had the range at once
and shells fairly rained upon the city OF
10000 inhabitants Not less thin ht.y
smells went screaming into Scarborough y.
md it Is probable that many more were
fired.
The Daily Yclcgrdph'S correspondent at
Scarborough estimates the number OF in
Jured AT 2oo.
1t was exactly 7 80 A. VI when the peo-
pie of scarborough were aware that The
war had come 10 thems At that mHd'c
q shell fell near tn" railway station \
train was ahou. To leave for I. y. There
was small crowd al the station, There
was q panic at once. People rushed 10
the train aud !mplored the engineer and
guards to leave instantly The engineer
refused to be swaSed and d!d very
plucky thing lie stepped to the te!e
Crauh office In the station and sent a mes
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on the this picture ae by German Shells which
picture the right of the group shows the entrance Whtby
Abbey of ST. da Whtby where Caedmon
The Abbey founded by King Oswy in 65S
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was destroyed. The gable end 81 the town
hall, situated on the cif. was shot TO
pieces. The hfchoat house was damaged.
\ corner OF the Royal Hotel fine build
ing near the centre % the town. Was
demol. shed