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Show BRITISH SQUADRON II BRIEF BATTLE Six German Battleships and Some Armored Cruisers Shell Scar-borough, Scar-borough, Hartlepool and Whitby, Doing Great Damage and Killing 60 or 70. FLEE IN MIST FROM PURSUERS Losses on Both Sides in the Engagement Are Small; Many Are Wounded Among Inhabitants; In-habitants; Thousands Flee to Interior. BERLIN Dec. 17 via Amsterdam Amster-dam and London, 3 25 a m. An official announcement issued, here says Parts of our high seas fleet made an attack on the English east coast and bombarded on the 16th, early in the morn-ng both, fortified and coast places at Scarborough and Hartlepool. Regarding its further course of action, no information can yet be given. (SpeiJ Cable br Arrangement With London Daily Te eeraph and in ematioua Neva Service.) LO'NDON Dec lb Germany daring h ttaeked England herself today ifter a dash across the North sea on a misty night a German not 11a bom baraed Hartlepool Scarborough ani Whitby unfortified cities on tho east coast of England, earl this morning Some 60 or 70 English women and men were killed it would seem Churches were ruined hotels dwellings and stores were destroyed bv the bombardment, which endured forty minutes, after which the Germans steamed aorthward from Scarborough Hundreds fled n pan c while the in vaders proiectiles thundered and burst setting on fire the structures they had reduced to ruins Others afirighted took refuge in cellars The exploding shells of the bold cruiser' who slipped through the British fleet and the guard ships and dodged the mines thickly strewn in tha lorth sea dng holes in the streets of Scarborough so wide and deep that a raJwa3 truck could pa s through them. Tho gun flashes ind cated that four big warships wero firing One shell that had been picked up was twelve in hes n d ameter and thirty three inches long English Ships Respond H rr edlv called by w reles British warsl ips ha tened from the nearest po nts to attack tho enem whose In mis on had not been unexpected bv the naral a ithonties and experts But tho German cru ser fore n ado ui of their fastest cruisers e& aped in the mist trom the Br tish squadron sent to cut them off While England hae apprehended a at tack from the a this demonstration has caused tl e n ost Intense surpr se and the fiercest anger that nfo tl d cities were attacked Fo onlj Hart epool has a ttle fo t at the mouth of tl e Tees. 1 he ala -m that fcp -ead thi oughout tl e k ngdom es ted In calling out the na tlonal rcservs at Not Ingham In many other pla es units of ar II ery and tntan trv ere sent to the r s a ons pre pa edness to resist an poss ble attack T e nun ber of the attacking fo c has been arlouslv estimated it from hree to sK cues Qome v ihej had a (Continued on Pago Three ) GEilS SHELL ENGLISH TOWNS FROMTHE SEA Cruiser Squadron Kills and Wounds Scores and Does Great Damage Along Coast (Continued fTom Page One) s brou i e The o Is no information on t s pol t vet The atta I benn at Hart epool about n n s af 8 th a or ng hen n ost pe pie vere a breakfast It was ke a th nclerbolt f -oro a ear sky most persons hi king a thun lerstorm had arisen The first shell had ml lode! car a man who sa 1 afteruard that he tho gh a British squud o was pra ng g nnery and was mak ng bad markamanahlp of 1 In 1 1 tr ordlnc to be t reports aho t thirty she! s fe 1 I Hartlepool 1 a said that twenty nine persona Here killed there aid manv nuumled the gas works vas larnaged and seeral lumber yards were set af re When the Ge man fioti la sa lod Iron Hart epool It dropped mines, with the purpose of pre enting pursuit At arbo ouah the e Went purpose of tho a tok unit to destroy the wireless telegraph stat on but It fai h1 of its ob le t At the Mrs so nd of the ftrl g per tons rushed fr 1 e r houses to he promenade a oi g he seashore Alt the 0 1 see were as ea of ght fro n the dlBtant guns t rough he mis Tiut e the ehella began to full they fled n the ott er direc Ion many of them to he railway station to take the first train for Hull Damage at Scarborough Ibout flft projectiles fell In Scarbor o gh mong the build nee that suffered were tt e elaborate sea be lng establ sh nent St Colun bus genera ) osp tal All Sal ts hurch and the rar ah church hospital The roofs of all tl ese ere dan Af.ed she la fell In prl -ate houses, and It la ma ed that elgh een persons were k ed and nanv were wounded In one r-ou e a fan. of tlx waa wiped out 1 a shot the woman behl d the coun-er coun-er was kll d a d 1 er husban I was se e el nj red The town ha I a o her o e t a of e ene n was on si ghtly Injured Nearly e er window In the town was Iroken The gas works was set on tire and a shell passed through the wlndon of IJoyds bank doing great r ctural damage but ca atng no loss o 1 fe. One she dug a great crater In- let -la road Tl e firing waa d rected gl t a roas the ha hor and extended to ne suburb of Falegrave where a h ge h m e f he brick works was de troed A loe waa blown up In the 01 of 11 talnts hur-h at Felsgrave d a n mber of shells fell In the valley ose to Oil er a Mount Ho!) comn n on was be ng observed In s Martina chur h n Scarborough w n o sheila s ruck he ed flee but the ongregatlon remained cnlm bough two men o ta de the church were killed There were ftf v wounded In the Scar oro gh hosp tal Shel s fell three miles iland from Scarborough, doing no dam age Flee bj All Roads T e flee ng civ lane from Scarborough as be bo: bardment got under way I a a tha po emporarllj the appears ce of aor e 1 elc an town. The afreets were owded w h hurrying throngs and ogged w h chicles of all descriptions mo nz o t of tie danger sone The b ggest crod went o the railroad sta on and the fl rt train carried a great r mbe of women and children without As the residents of the east coast of England ha e b en keenly alive ever since the war began to the danger of a aid n any of them put Into operation plans formed n ad -ance for their per sonal safet n case of a German attack. Attack on Whitbj The peop e f W hitby saw only two warships T appeared off that town bo 9 o lock About thirty s ells fell n Whl b and ta surroundings doing onsiderable damage chiefly In the Com I e d districts where several houses were n peked r e historic cathedral was damaged Two persons were killed and two wounded From the three towns that were bom barded terrtf ed residents took the first trains to Hul fo the south where they told arlousi alarming stories Those from Hartlepool said lat the gas works was exploded by a she 1 but none of the em plo ees was k led The postofflce was damaged and three employees In It were "Firing was ea d at Darlington, nine teen miles Inland from Hartlepool and w ndowa In the houses miles away were broken by the concussion At MIddlesboro on the Tees side dis lc windows were shattered. It ap pears beyond doubt hat conslderab e ma terial damage was done at West Hartle pool As heard at MIddlesboro the noise tf the cannonade was faint, but grew n force until a most thunderous then d ed away by 9 o c ock Aliens Arrested Precautionary n easures were taken at once at North Shields and a large num ber of a ens were arrested and Interned at the Centra po ce station. For about an hour the gas supply of the town was turned off. But shortly before noon ser vice was resumed at the gas works, which was guarded by so diers The mil tary guard vas set around the postofflce oo Some of he o erhead cables In Scar borough were cut by shells and the tram ars ceased running for a whl e For hours some of the shops remained c osed An engineer of a train that took the ref gees fro a Scarborough to Hull wl ed to his wife Shel s are fal ng thickly around me but I am all right. In mediately after the start lng event t e adm ra ty took over all the te egraph wi es between Indon and the invaded towns add ng to the difficult! of obtain ing particu ars. The Evening Standard reports that iwelve persons were kll ed and 100 Vounded during the bombardment of Scarborough. On the other hand a die patch from Scarboro gh s ates that e gh een persons were k 1 ed four in one house three in another and the coast guard station was fclown to pieces Attacked by Destroyers d spate from the New Casta Even ing Chronic e p aces the number of Ger nan c u sers w ich bombardel Hartle poo i h oe It says these cru sers were a ked almost tmmed atel by four Br s dest o e s Several ent e rows of ouses at Hartlepool were destroyed and the gas works was serious y dam aged this newspaper says In London thore was great excitement In Lojda underwrit ng room when the announcement of the naval raid was posted Insurance rates so far as the No th sea is concerned have been prac t ca suspended pend ng receipt of def lni e news from t e s e t admiraltv |