BOMBARDMENT.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2523, 19 December 1914, Page 2

BOMBARDMENT.

MORE DETAILS OF THE YORKSHIRE RAID.

.... -l-wmion, uccember 18. ihe iimeo naval correspondent writes: uwing IU ueatner coutunous aim vie instance iroin umcu tne Ucrinans ureu it ivus uuncuit to ascertain tnoii- number, but most likely u l6 y »ero specially cnoson oi neavy ilLm J_ mont unu great speed, probaoly "tne >on .Dor rami, JioitKe, .-.eyuirt-z uiucner, aim uoon. uur coast oel icnce system is oased upon tne principle una only ports containing resources ol national importance- ougut lo Lie lortiUeu, ami inner places sucli us tnoao uniauiuljy uomuarueu should uo protected uy tneir umortiiied conuitions.

Hit; Daily Express' says the Germans dropped mines to prevent diuolllt. * The Morning Post says six Qerwa' vessels were engaged m tlie raid, v is not known wuetber the hi*e of tho -more batteries had any effect. Tbe limes military correspondent uerides tne German raid on tiie coast towns. Ho says it merely exiiiuits a •uid state oi temper on account of tho many disappointments. Cur unbeaten r-iu,mnn tC + ly su l ,e ™-*- -Wcot, backed by MUU,OUO troops, leave no cause fur anxiety, and our land forces aro adequate

iho underwriters accepted largo amounts of insurance on tho East v-oast against bombardment, and have received many claims. Tho Hull trawler Cassandra, 30 miles olf Scarborough after the bombardments saw a German Dreadought and seven other warships rapKUJ approaching and steaming past oouthsea, bring .shells which hiLd overhead. Ibe British squadron was n ing for halt an hour, but gradually relinquished the chase Correspondents on the East Coast iSw tiUU i tlie « e "™* followed „.l • tr *" vle «. knowing that they hut Z sa . f ,° p . oSlfcloUj and the -y wo«id bus be able to reach England without much danger from mine-fields ihe total casualties on the Eas! Coast were 110 killed and 405 wounded including Hartlepool's 83 civilians b soldiers, and 1 sailors. Ha^-tltfol" 111 " 1 15 " Sch ° »* ■ t,tw C^ 5t , S - Uardslmu ! at «™rborough .tuck to his post through a rain .hells until las 51£ „ a i s reached th a.thor.fcies Tho station waa blown io atoms alter he quitted. ihe Daily Telegraph's New York says tlio Wall Street ol u!lf d T! bcS , the oi undefended places as an act of >v J ,p a !i C i'>- murdero «» '"alice which will do Germany more harm than

~,, Rome, December 18. ihe newspapers severely census si !^ m - ba tf mentof °P eu *°wn ß not • tuated m the. region of the war opeations. They quote this latter Phrase from the official German communication of December 10, wWch Proved .against the bombing of The newspaper Messagero says the abators merely Hew over Freiburg to - mb military buildings, but the German .bombardment of British towns v ..intended to destroy everything, ad kill unarmed citizens, proving he hatred burning in the German n?lkb aiU «* th *? Kais^ r «**«"* *• English. Similar action may be repeated, but the Germans will never land on British soil.

n«c - , Petrograd, December 17 Official.-A Russian warship orderci- the crew to leave the German /hXf Cr , U^} C ear Kerason. 'Only two Turkish officers .and twelve •soldiers obeyed. They were picked «1>- ihe Dermtic was bombarded and-blew up. .. y £ Ke ™ So *V s a seaport on the Black ;V-a, ,0 nnles west of Trebizond. Ihore is no steamer named. Derintic iv Lloyd s Register. The vessel was probably the Dcrindje, a steamer of ■M<3 tons, owned by the German Levant Line. Hamburg.] "n • December 17. v.;^'r T ral the I ,!" V T tlgatU,g Co '» m >'ttee, said mat an adequate .number of sub- • Id have prevented the. German '■nd. Germany evidently thought to f-nm the British Navy alon| Ml SS I W W I 0 "16 1' t0 •'ids, and then she would endeavour o destroy the vessels in detail. If t(io German cruisers were speedy and kcpVmoving however, submarines "oufd hardly be.likely to effect much