Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-03-14 | Page 17 | Newspaper Tells Bombardment Story

NEWSPAPER TELLS BOMBARDMENT STORY Frankfurter Zeitung Pub Iishes Account Told by On of Participants. By Correspondence of Associated Press BERLIN March 13 The Frankfurter Zeltung pub shes an account of the bom bardment of the east coast towns by one who took part in It as follows We sailed In company with Beveral othe sh ps and steered a course for the ngl sh coast Fach of the sMps taking pa In the expedition had Its own par Ucu ar task T ey were ordered slmul taneously to bombard the three great Ecgl sh ports of Hartlepool Scarborough and Whitby in order to destroy the s g nai stations harbor works and the land batteries situated at these points. Full of joyful hopes we weighed anchor the engines began to move and we were on the way to our goal Care ful y avoiding every obstacle we arrived off the Eng sh coast without untoward ncident Al night we had traveled w thout how tig a 1 ght and we succeeded in passing unobser ed through the chain of patro s. Had we been discovered our p an certainly would have come to naught But everything went welL No one s ept on board of course, aa no one felt the need of it At i a n our ships d spersed each one to seek its own ob ject ve The word was now passed to keep a particula ly sha p lookout. At 7 a m we s ghted the Engl sh coast and our jov knew no bounds as we approached our goal. Every man on board was at his poit. I 1th jsome of my stokers was do ng duty at the search ight which dur Ing the bombardment was used for s g na ng and I was ab e to see everything thro h my blnocu a s S ghtly favored bv fog we approached stl 1 c ose to the coast and the order j vas g ven to Clear for action close all ' ertlght doors and hatches Our guns j had ong ago been been made ready ; to fire Our first target was the s gnal station of the harbor before us When ! we were close In the order came to hoist j the flae: and a moment later the German war flag was waving n errl y from the' malnn ast 4.t t is the sly English knew with whon they had to dea They hoisted a flag at the s gnal station but It had hard y got to ha fn ast when the first i German salvo thundered out and the 1 whoe bu Id ng was destroyed thanks to the marksmansh p of the German gun i ners : nd now one aivo after another I I roared out f om our own and the other j ships a fu I broads de e erj t me and 'the Eng sh shore batteries were covered with a hail of projec I es The mole at Scarborough was totally , destroed wh e se eral mi tary bu Id ngs were reduced to heaps of debris beneath our fire Our cannonade asted some thlrt nunutes We then steamed for the harbor of Wh tby where our guns aga n , came into plav During the bombard ment here an Eng lsh passenger steamer came right into the I ne of fire As we saw th s ship had not enough boats on board to sa e al the passengers In case it sank we "barbar ans ceased fire for some minutes to a low the steamer to get out of danger After we had destroyed the ml Itary works at W tbv our work was o er and we began he return Journey bout 2pm the weather which had up to then been prett c ear changed a hea y sea was runn ng the wa es we e as hici as houses Da knes soon fe 1 and nder the co er of night we reached the home harbor Dur ng the attack our sh ps had recei ed only a few h ts which were scarcelv worth mention ng The damage we inf cted on the Engl sh must have been enormous