AT SCARBOROUGH
WHOLE SEA FRONT SWEPT BY SHELLS.
PEOPLE BREAKFASTING AT THE TIME.
LONDON, Dec. 17. A couple of flashes and i the roar of" oio- <nms startled the people of Scarborough, who were mostly breakfasting by gaslight, it -was an unusually dark morning. , , A light cruiser came close to the shore, and a° bigger -vessel remained I ' at a distance, firing recklessly. The whole of the seaf ront -was -swept by a rapid succession of shells. ' . The most damage was done on Castle Hill the Castle keep being damaged. Shells struck .the -General Hospital and the Royal Northern Infirmary, where wounded soldiers were under treatment. No one was injured. . , The Town 'Hall and several churches were damaged. The western ..part .ot the town suffered badly, many houses be : birr demolished. „_J ■QDhe guns fired in threes after a lew second's pause, and terrifying .explosions indicated where the.shell&liad lodged. Threo struck the Grand Hotel, doinii heavy damage. ... A wounded resident who has arrived in London estimates .that nearly a hun-; dr'ed houses were destroyed in Scarborough. The population generally was calm.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLVIII, 18 December 1914, Page 5
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