The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . ft UNDERWOOD. N. Y. REMAINS OF THE ANCIENT ABBEY OF WHITBYNear Scarborough, England, after the bombardment havoc was wrought along the sea front. The district lyingbehind the lighthouse was severely battered, but the batteryon the front, that guards the entrance to the port, was nottouched. Behind and beside it houses were unroofed andholes made in their walls. A whole terrace on the frontescaped injury. A few yards behind it a residential squarehad on
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . ft UNDERWOOD. N. Y. REMAINS OF THE ANCIENT ABBEY OF WHITBYNear Scarborough, England, after the bombardment havoc was wrought along the sea front. The district lyingbehind the lighthouse was severely battered, but the batteryon the front, that guards the entrance to the port, was nottouched. Behind and beside it houses were unroofed andholes made in their walls. A whole terrace on the frontescaped injury. A few yards behind it a residential squarehad on one side hardly a house left whole. Further in therear, by the Rugby football field, was a long row of houses 57 IN THE GERMAN COLONIES AND ON THE SEA every one of wliich was extensively damaged. Half were nolonger habitable. A violent earthquake could not havecaused the same measure of ruin. Except as an example offrightfulness. the visit to the Ilartlepools was was going on next day in workshops and at docks asusual, the port working normally, and merchant ships weresteaming home through sea fogs just as if nothing had. THE BRITISH SHIP APPAM happened. The hostile cruisers did nothing but sacrificenearly a hundred lives of innocent non-combatants. The cruisers steamed close into Whitby, and when about amile off the port discharged shots into the town, which wasundefended by artillery. It was estimated that 100 shotswere fired. After the bombardment, they steamed out to seaand were soon lost to view. Two men were killed andhouses and other property were damaged. Whitby Abbey,close to the signal station, was struck, as was the AbbeyLodge. News that the venerable ruins of Whitby had beendamaged caused a feeling of anger, as deep in purpose as inresentment, to pass through England. These ruins, bat-tered by the storms of many generations, stood still un-conquered, perched high above the huddled beauty of theold port and the town near the edge of a cliff and on the
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