Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-18
ENGLAND IS BR|STL|NG
WITH ANGER OVER RAID
Entire Machinery or Home Defense
Put In Motion In Preparation
for Another Attack.
FULL DETAILS NOT YET KNOWN
Gripping of Telephone and Telegraph
Wires by Bombartlment Makes II
impossible to Obtain More Than
Estimate OF Dead and Wounded.

LONDON. December 1T.-Crippling Of
telephone and telegraph wires by the
bombardment yesterday of Scar
borough. the IIartlepools and Whitby.
on the east coast of England. by Ger
man cruisers, together with military
precautions thrown about those towns.
made 1t Impossible even to-day. more
than twenty-four hours after the raid.
to obtain more than an appropriate es-
Innate OF the civilian dead and
wounded.
According to All official statement
given out to-day. a total OF afty-fvc
persons met their death In the Hartle-
pools. while lis were wounded AT
Scarborough seventeen dead and thirty
wounded was the toll. Both official
and unofficial estimates place the Whit
by casualties at two dead and two
wounded or the Hartlepool casualties.
seven of the dead were soldiers. while
or the wounded fourteen men belonged
10 the military. The maximum of
wounded is close to $50 persons. That
does not include the slightly wounded
civilians who bandaged their own hurts
and left town
BristlinE with wrath and resentment
at the attack on unfortincd towns
England is ostir to-day as never before
since war was declared. Another raid
is confidently expected. and the entire
machinery Of home defense has been
put into motion. On the east and the
southeast coast emergency committees
are at work, while In London plans to
organize national guard of men too
old for military service are under way.
REALITIES OF WAR
SHARPLY BROUGHT HOME
Although. to the British mind. raid
on London seems remote, yet yester-
days episode drove home the realities
OF war as nothing else could. Arrange
ments have been made ut Deal and
Dover to expedite the removal of the
civilian population in case Of an at
tack. These measures are primarily To
forestall any panic or traffic congestion
which might impede military move
ments.
Through wireless te.aSTaahy Berlin
promptly heard or the outcome OF the
raid, and this morning wireless mes
sage from the German capital. picked
up here. repeated details Of the attack
as printed by British newspapers yes
terday. Nothing has been added from
German official sources.
Steaming at high speed. the German
raiders. barring mishap. should have
reached their advance naval base off
HeiRoland some time after midnight
their trip requiring about fifteen hours
IhiTty nourSrCut or port on such Il ven
ture in mine-laden waters Is a feat
English papers do not belittle. and, in
MS heart, every Englishman hopes that
II VIII be essayed again. and. II neces-
Sary. again, until the call Is paid once
TOO often. II Is presumed that behind
them the German cruisers strewed
mines, so fleet OF .trawlers is now out
engaged in the precarious task OF
sweeping.
The towns attacked yesterday had
resumed much of their normal appear
nnce to-day. except in the bereavcd
homes and in the hospitals
Behef is general that the Germans
mad the able assistance of spies The
remarkable secrecy with which the
raid was executed is shown by the fact
that not "A single incoming vessel ut
any east coast port saw the German
ships prior to their sudden appearance.
The nearest parallel to yesterdays
visit Is found In the activities of John
Paul Jones' terror of English shipping,
who lnenaced English coast towns in
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