South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-01-06

brought from Russia FOR use in mines.
The latest report we had before leav-
ing London stated that several tim
Der Yards were burning, having caught
fire when the gas tanks were sheiled
and began blazing.
Received News at York.
we all changed cars at York. II
was here our distracted friend eX-
pcctcd TO receive news OF his family
and his property. lie had explained
he hoped 10 IND tclcgrans awaiting
MIN IN care OF the station master.
~ nile ne ran about in circles trying
vainly 20 get directions as 60 how TO
! nnd that OFFICIAL. good luck sent me
right into his arms And ne had two
kilograms for the stamp collector
Had they contained bad news things
probably would have been very dIt-
Ierent.
lie read them feverishly and then
fairly beamed on me and sighed hap
ply. His family were ali safe and
mis- house untouched. There was no
mention OF his timber yard lis sis-
ter's home had been demolished after
several shells, aimed at the Battery.
had crashed through 1t. but she and
her husband and mis- son were unIn-
jured.
On the train from York to Hartle-
pool he was another man. He liter
ally radiated JOY. 4 am sure II was
his bouyant optimism and CHEEKY &C
Ceptance OF the nerve-racking tragedy
on the one available automobile. But
IL served the readers OF the Interna-
tiOnal News Service newspapers and
end even more interesting.
In our compartment was big,
| broad -shOuldered, ruddy-faced. pros
I perOus-lOoking, middle-aged man and
his son Of perhaps 20. lie seemed TO
know everyone and at least the stamp
collector knew him Intimately Also
it was evident that the two were on
the most friendly terms. They were
neighbors.
Mysterious German Citizen.
But the big mans dialect was rich
I er and more murderous of idiomatic
English than Sam Bernard's at his
worst. He was absolutely the most
out-and-out German / ever saw.
'Tamm tOse Cherman teyils,' he
exclaimed over and over again.
Where is our fieet. amt it? For what
ISIS it dat We all ben baying taxes SO
many years. for What 1 ask you"
EverybOdy--there were five York
shiremen in the compartment-en-
tered into conversation with the port
ly individual and my friend addressed
him continually as buggy" Nobody
seemed TO think his presence in Eng
1
me as wonderful and / so informed
my friend during the ride to his
/ house.
why, he's lived right here in West
HartlepOol for 80 years. ne replied
in answer to my query. Everybody
/ knows him. He is one of our most
respected citizens"
l made no comment and my friend
was silent for a space. Then, sud
/ denly and confdentially, he began
again:
Suspicion Grows.
"Of course we all say just that. we
I have been saying il ever since the
war broke. But the fact of the mat
| ter is-we're not all quite as guileless
as we may appear. There has been a
little quiet investigation going on AID
| thus far we have discovered several
interesting facts about Mr.. -. We
\ know he was an officer in a certain
\ uhlan regiment before he came TO
England and we know also that three
/ weeks ago ne jOurneyed up TO Lon
/ don and took out $3.50 worth of in
surance on his house. Also we know
/ that he left HartlepOOl with his eld-
est son only yesterday. less than "A
hours before the German ships began
Smelling the town. But his position is
/ too important for anyone to do any
thinG rash in the. way of making ac-
cusatiOns. Perhaps something will
happen-but before il. does you may
be sure we will be absolutely certain
of our ground.
Everybody. in London as well as in
the bOmbarded towns, is satisfied the
raiders accuracy of gun fire could
never have been possible had not
some one aboard each enemys ship
had a careful-and recentiy-made
chart of each town in his possession.
For not only were virtually all of the
I public buildings struck, but in a high
/ percentage of cases the residences
shelled had billeted soldiers in them!
The naturalized Germans residence
/ was RACED TO the ground by shell fire,
the only house to be touched in the
neighbOrhoOd. At almost the same
moment his law offices, three miles
away, were also being knocked into
dust by other German shells, Had
he asked for an alibi the raiding fleet
could not have espoused his cause
more completely.
The way the list of killed and in
jured in the two HartlepOols grew
from the "12 killed. 30 injured" of
the first official announcement to the
final igures-rehected conversely the
attitude of the villagers on tie whole
matter of the raid. During the
three-Quarters Of an hour of actual
Smelling the inhabitants became
slowly and gradually. to be sure, but
Iadmittedly-panic stricken and
greater portion OF the population be-
gan a mad dash inland. But within
an hour of the bombardment's cessa-
ton a change of temper set in With
in p hours every last man. woman
and child was declaring vehemently
that the saddest part o. the whole af-
fair was that the Germans hadn't
landed
While surgeons were still pouring
into the town 10 help the Over-taXed
local staff attending the 800 injured
citizens the military took advantage
Of the situation to start "A regimental
band at the head of two companies of
raw recruits on a route march" all
over both towns. BY nightfall there
were several hundred mufti-C clad cit
liens trudging on behind-new mem
bers of Kitchener's new army.
MAN LIVES ALTHOUGH
HIT BY FREIGHT TRAIN