. Thrilling stories of the Great War on land and sea, in the air, under the water. ions was observed bythe German naval raiders who on December 16, 1914,bombarded the historic English towns of Hartlepool,Whitby and Scarborough. Appearing in the earlymorning, the Germans rained deadly shells upon thesecoast towns, none of which was of strategic importance,and only one protected by fortifications. The imme-diate result was the useless slaughter of many non-combatants—men and women and children, and theruin of buildings, churches and historic monuments,including the ancient abbey of St. Hilda at
. Thrilling stories of the Great War on land and sea, in the air, under the water. ions was observed bythe German naval raiders who on December 16, 1914,bombarded the historic English towns of Hartlepool,Whitby and Scarborough. Appearing in the earlymorning, the Germans rained deadly shells upon thesecoast towns, none of which was of strategic importance,and only one protected by fortifications. The imme-diate result was the useless slaughter of many non-combatants—men and women and children, and theruin of buildings, churches and historic monuments,including the ancient abbey of St. Hilda at Whitby. The raid on Scarborough was described by RuthKauffman, the wife of the novelist, Reginald WrightKauffman, in an interesting communication. The240 BOMBARDING UNDEFENDED CITIES Kauffmans had been living for several years just outsideof Cloughton, a village near Scarborough. MRS. KAUFFMANS DESCRIPTION Its a very curious thing to watch a bombardmentfrom your house. Everybody knew the Kaiser would do it. Butthere was a little doubt about the date, and then some- I .--?-,-_. Where the War Was Brought Home to England. how the spy-hunting sport took up general the Kaiser did send his card it was quite asmuch of a surprise as most Christmas cards—fromafriend forgotten. Eighteen people were killed in the morningbetween eight and eight-thirty oclock in the streetsand houses of Scarborough by German shrapnel, twohundred were wounded and more than two hundredhouses were damaged or demolished. From our windows we could not quite make out theu 241 BOMBARDING UNDEFENDED CITIES contours of the ruined castle, which is generally plainlyvisible. Our attention was called to the fact thatthere was practicing going on and we could at quick flashes. That these flashes pointed directlyat Scarborough we did not for a few moments compre-hend, then the fog slowly lifting, we saw a fog thatwas partly smoke. The castle grew into its place inthe six miles distance. It seeme
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