The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-05-05
GERMAN FLEET OUT
PARIS ANNOUNCES BOMBARD=
MENT OF BELGIAN COAST
london IS interested

London IS lNTERESTED.|
Nineteen Shells of Large Calibre are
Thrown Into Town on Coast-Air-
men Visit English East Coast on
Brief Visit to Two Towns-Reviyal
of Activity in Poland.
London reports Friday: The east
coast of England has been subjected
to an aerial attack accompanied by
the infliction of material damage, but
without casualties. Differences Of
opinion exist as to the type of air
machine used by the Germans, but
most people agree it was a Zeppelin.
It arrived in the small hours of the
morning and spent brief time over
Ipswich and Bury St. Edmunds.
Paris reports the presence of
German fleet off the coast Of Bel
gium and the shelling of Dunkirk
with the loss of twenty lives. Details
are awaited anxiously in England.
It is fact, however, that the air
raid, the Dardanelles battle and the
German sea attack on Belgium were
compelled to forego the limelight in
favor Of the question Of liquor regu-
lation in Great Britain and the fact
that the government for the first
time slice the beginning of the war
has had to meet a division Of the
House of Commons. The attitude of
the House probably reflects the opin-
ion OF the country, which is sharply
| divided upon the question Of regulat-
ing consumption of alcoholic bever-
ages.
Even the Church of England,
which made its first official pro-.
lnouncement at the York convocation,
resolved to view with uneasiness any
action suggesting total prohibition.
But the strongest opposition comes
from Ireland. Some idea of the
strength of this opposition to the gov
ernment can be seen.
Official quarters still remain reti-
| cent concerning the military opera
tions on the Dardanelles, but London
papers contained number Of special
dispatches from that region in which
| the claims are made that the allies
are steadily advancing under cover of
the fire Of the fleet, but not without
meeting an opposition which is caus-
ing tn m heavy losses. British troops
are reported in occupation Of the mar
row tongue OF the peninsula north OF
IGallipoli. Athens dispatches predict
led that this campaign. will last a long
time, as the Turks occupy exception
ally well prepared positions.
The fight in the west still centers
around Steenstraate. This position,
occupied by the Germans, forms an
1 irritating wedge in the allied line.
There has been some revival OF ac-
| tiYity in Russian Poland, where i'm
4 proyement in weather conditions mas
i led the Germans to make a numbersof
Iisolated attacks. These, however, ac-
! cording to Petrograd adVices, have
been repulsed.-
] In the Carpthians and Bukowina,
preparations evidently are under way
for resumption of operations on a
i large scale, but as yet there has been
no pronounced change in the relative
positions Of the contending forces.
An official statement from Paris
says German warships have appeared
off the Belgian coast and have bonn
barded Dunkirk.. Twenty persons
! were killed.
The presence of the German high
seas fleet in the North Sea has been
] reported several times recently and
an official statement issued in Berlin
a few days ago spoke of several eX-
I peditions Of this kind, made without
/ encountering the British fleet. The
captain of Swedish steamer report
ed that on crossing the North Sea a
few days ago he encountered a large
number Of German warships.
Paris reports; German warships
have been seen off the Belgian coast,
/ according to an official statement
| given out in Paris Friday. Nineteen
large shells have fallen on Dunkirk.
| The official notice reads:
German warships. have been re-
ported at large off the coast Of Bel
GUM.
"Dunkirk received nineteen shells
of large calibre. Twenty persons
were killed and forty-fiVe wounded.
Some houses were destroyed.
It will be recalled that there have
been several dispatches in the last
week indicating that German war
ships were at large in the North Sea.
evidently having evaded the British
men-of-war which for many months
have been doing patrol duty in front
of the German naval base on the east
ern side of the North Sea.
The latest report along that line
was brought in by Captain Scott, OF
Swedish steamer, who declared he
had seen in the North Sea German
fleet of sixty-eight vessels Of all class
es. The officer did not say where or
when the ships had been sighted, put
the inference was that it was WITHIN
a week.
Dunkirk is on the northern cotsSI
| of France within few miles Of the
Belgian frontier. It is at the north:
ern entrance of the English channel,
| east of Dover and west of Ostend.
There have been four agements
of Importance in the North Sea since
the beginning OF the war. The first
was the battle Of Heigoland, late in
Annust in which a British fleet sent
four German warships to the bottom.
In October four German destroyersS
were sunk in an engagement off the
Dutch coast On December 10
German cruiser squadron raided the
east coast of England, bombarding
Scarborough and the Hartlerools. On
January "a a British squadron inter-
cepted a German squadron while 1t
was crossing the North Sea to mese
another raid and sank the German
cruiser Blucher.