The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-12-23
WARSHIPS ESCAPE
BRITISH ADMIT BAIDIKG Bat
TLESRIPS GOT AWAIT
FAST CRUISERS ARE Used

German Attack on Northeast Coas
of England Gives People Great Sur
! prise-Over 100 People Killed
Scarborough, Whitby and Hartle
pool Buildings Seriously Damaged
The German attack upon the coast
OF Northern England is the boldes'
yet attempted by the Germans. The
German naval men showed exception
al seamanship in getting by the guar.
dian. British feet, feat which the
fleets OF Napoleon were unable to &C.
complish.
II was surmised that the Germans
had felt their way across the North
Sea during the darkness, with all the
| lights in their ships extinguished.
The route giving them the most safe
ty under the circumstances would be
one due north from the western en-
trance of the Kiel Canal, past Den
mark to point of the southern
coast Of Norway, thence a straight
away dash westward to the English
coast.
The carrying out of the long ex-
pected German attack was the first
time that the British coast had been
attacked since the American Revo-
luton, when John Paul Jones con-
Quoted successful forays into Eng
lish waters.
Hartlepool lies in Durham, be-
tween 22o and 225 miles north Of
London, Just north of the mouth Of
the River Tess. Scarborough lies in
Yorkshire, about As miles down the
coast in southeasterly direction
from Hartlepool.
The point of attack lies approx
mately 400 miles from the Kiel
Canal, where the German feet was
concentrated at the outbreak Of the
war. It was necessary for the Ger
man ships to steam clear across the
North Sea, passing through mine
fields and evading the powerful Brit
ish patrol fleets all the way down
LILO SoSI SSslSI VI 1ASo1csAos
4 dispatch, from York says that
the residents Of Scarborough were
thrown into panic by the lombard
ment, hundreds of them rushing to
the railway station, where they
crowded aboard trains just leaving
for Hull and other cities. This tele-
gram said that the cannonade began
at 1855 o'clock. The morning was
hazy, but despite the fog, the Ger
man gunners had no difficulty in To-
eating their ranges.
London reports: Hartlepool suf-
fered most. There two battle cruis-
ers and an armored cruiser were en-
gagged. The British war Office fixes
the number Of dead at Hartlepool as
seven soldiers and twenty-five civil
ians and the wounded at fourteen
soldiers and fifty civilians.
At Scarborough, shelled BY bat
tie cruiser and an armored cruiser,
thirteen casualties are reported,
while at Whitby two were killed and
two wounded.
The following Is the official press
bureaus statement on the German
attack on the English. coast:
This morning a German cruiser
force made demonstration upon the
Yorkshire coast, in the course of
F; which they shelied Hartlepool, Whit
by and Scarborough.
GA number Of their fastest ships
were employed for this purpose and
they remained about an hour on the
coast.
"They we're engaged by patrol YES
sells on the spot. AS soon as the
presence Of the enemy was reported
a British patrolling squadron en-
deavored to cut them off. On being
sighted by the British vessels, the
Germans retired at full speed, and
favored by the mist, made their es-
cape.
A wave Of intense AMER has spread
over England because of the attack.
Bitter denunciation is heard every
where Of a policy which permits
shelling of undefended towns.
| The Germans choose night when
a thick mist prevailed and must have
left their base at least two hours be-
fore dark. AS they started to return
about O'Clock there remained about
seven hours Of daylight for the pur'
suit, which, however, was rendered
almost impossible by the fog. How
the Germans evaded all the mines
and patrols remains mystery.
The booming of heavy guns of the
three towns drew hundreds to the
beaches. They had no thought of g
German raid, but when shells came
crashing over their heads and into
the quiet streets. they dashed fol
shelter. Of shore the German guns
did rapid work, the flashes coming
| necessarily and the shells finding g
mark among the buildings. Many
residents took refuge in cellars; 9th
ers rushed from their houses, among
them women and children in theil
night clothes, and not a few sought
the railway stations, leaving on the
first trains.
/; Various rumors were heard. One
was that two German cruisers haC
been sunk. Many thought the long
expected general naval engagement
between the British and German
fleets was progressing and that the
shel,ing of the coast towns was mere
ly incidental.
The admiralty's report issued a
$3.50, giving the news that the Ger
man ships had eluded pursuit ant
were returning safely to their home
waters, caused keen disappointment
Naval writer's express the opinion
that six or eight ships were engaged
The Germans have available for suct
an attack the armored cruisers
Blucher, Room, Prinz Adalbert, Prin:
Heinrich and Prinz Frederick Kar
and more than twenty cruisers Of (
smaller class.
To Join Belgian Felief.
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