Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-12-25
DARING RAID BY
GERMAN WARSHIPS
Leave Harbor and Shell Coast
Cities of England With
lmpunity.
BRITISH FLEET POWERLEss
TO PREVENT OPERATIONS

Enormous Damage Inflicted, With
Loss of Life ConservativeIy Esti-
mated at 143, and Raiding Fleet
Makes Good Its Escape-Believed to
Be the First of Series Contemplated
by German Naval Authorities.
London, Dec. 18.-The casualty list
as result of the German naval raid
on the east coast of England early yes
terday morning is growing rapidly.
Figures tonight show 143 persons
killed, of whom only a small percen-
tage were combatants, and SGT wound
ed.
simultaneously with the receipt of
the report Of casualties from West
Hartlepool, where the official list in
Hartlepool and West Hartlepool has
reached the figure of 70 killed and
800 wounded, there came the first
definite news that the German ships
had been engaged by the British coast
patrol ships while carrying on the
bombardment.
British Ships Engaged Raiders.
The admiralty announced tonight,
through the official press bureau, that
the light cruiser Patrol and the tor
pedo destroyed Doom were among the
British warships that attacked the
German raiders. They were heavily
engaged and came off with some casu-
alties.. Aboard the Patrol four men
were killed and four wounded, while
on the Doom one was killed and IL
wounded.
Unofficial reports are that the Ger
man ships did not escape without SUI
fering severe damage. Several OF
them are reported to have been struck,
though not vitality.
Members of the crew of the diminu-
tive destroyer Doom related how the
two ships, with others whose identity
could not be made out in the mist,
struck at the Germans despite their
superior strength both in weight OF
guns and ships, and did their best to
infiict damage.
Three ships have already been sunk
by the mines strewn by the deeing
Germans in their wake, and today the
admiralty closed to traffic the waters
between Marlborough Head and New
castle.
Berlin, Dec 17.-An official an
nouncement issued here says:
parts of our high seas fleet made
an attack on the English east coast
and bombarded December 16, early in
the morning, both fortified and coast
places at Scarborough and Hartlepool.
Regarding it's further course of action
no information can yet be given"
London. Dec 17.-Germany daring
lv attacked England herself early in
the morning.
After a dash across the North sea
on a misty night, German fiotilla
bombarded Hartlepool, Scarborough
and Whitby, unfortified cities on the
east coast of England. early in the
morning.
Some thirty women and men were
killed. Churches were ruined, notes,
dwellings and stores were destroyed
bv the bombardment which endured
40 minutes. after which the Germans
steamed northward from Scarborough
and escaped pursuing British cruisers:
The gun flashes indicated that four
big warships were firing. one sheli
that has been picked up was II inches
in diameter and SO inches long.
Hundreds fled in panic while the IN
vaders' projectiles Numbered ana
burst. setting on fire the structures
thev had set in ruins. Others, al
frighted. took refuge in cellars.
The squadron which shelled Rartle-
nooI where the bombardment was
most destructive to life and properly
was composed, the admiralty annouh-
.ces. of two battle cruisers and an ar
mored cruiser, while from four to SIX
Night cruisers attacked scarborough
and Whitby
Germans Escape In Fog.
The German squadron escaped prac-
ticallv unframed The organized pur-
suit that drew England's great ships
from their stations at sea could not
catch up or cut off the fast raiders.
The Germans mad in their favor
heavy mist, which covered the sea, and
they made a rapid Withdrawn alter
raining shells on the coast towns Tor
about thirty minutes.
The only ctficial mention OF damage
to the raiders is contained IN an ON
cial British statement which SAID the
batteries at Hartlepool had damaged
at least one of the vessels which ap-
peared there.
Most Daring Raid OF War;
IL was the most daring and success
ful exploit the Germans have per-