¥ KINGSTON 'WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER. 16, 1014 East Coast Towns of Scarberough, Hartlepool and Whithy Shelled by Gorman Cruisers and Several People Killed. Churches. and Buildiags Were Badly Damaged---Strict Cen- sorship Prevents Ful Details Being Known -- 'People at First Thought the Firing Was the British Practising. Hull, Dee. 16.--Three churches are reported to have been partially destroyed, the gas works set on fire, two railway platforms destroyed and numerous buildings damaged when four German cruisers. bombarded Secar- borough, the famous seaside resort of England, to-day. rown into a panic by the shells which crashed in- to the town from the warships, people poured from their homes and hurried to the railway stations, taking trains for Hull and other towns. The early - morning train reaching here brought many refugees, who brought stor- ies of great damage done to the town. Between forty and fifty shells fell in Searborough. The three churches were among the first buildings struck. The exploding of shells set the buildings on fire. The Germans also directed their aim upon 'the railroad sta- tion, but oply succeeded in causing comparatively slight damage there in the destruction of two platforms. As the Get unners got the range, other Imildings were dam- ag THGontE" tow thrown into the wildest cons v 2s ry The German. eruisers approached startingly elose to the coast line. With the firing of the first shots, they seemed to get the range immediately and then rained shells into all sections of the town. People Rushed Into the Streets. The bombardment began at 7.56: a.m. The train which arrived at Hull was just leaving the station as shells be- gan to fall. Practically tife entive population of the town had rushed into the streets and those nearest the station rushed aboard the train for safetv. As the train left Scarborough, the booming of the German guns could still be heard off the coast. The government censors how control telephone and telegraph avires from Scarborough. linmediately after the first word of the bombardment reached Hull by tele- phone the censors assumed control. be Thought It Was British Practising. The refugees from Scarborough declared that when they first heard of the firing off shore, they thought it was simply Buitish battleships practising. No attention was paid to the gunnonade. Then a louse was struck by a shell and exumpled into a heap of ruins. A few moments later, the Balmoral hotel was * struck and immediately took fire. Shells began to arrive elose together by this time. Other houses and buildings were struck and burst into flames. al ews EE dae Nine People Were Killed. London, Dec. 16.--Nine pedple are reported. killed and many injured in the bombardment of Hartlepool. The first word bringing details of the attack by German cruisers on this town declared. that the post office had been struck by a shell. War Office Statement. Lotidon, Dec, 16. --A statement from .the war office supplementing an carlier announcement from the admir alty, this afternoon, says: Es 4" : fortress commander at West Hartlepool re Jorte that German war vessels engaged the fortress be- oe and nine o'clock this morning. They tere driven "A small German vessel dso openéd=fire on Scarbor- ough and Whitby." * report from the war office does the | es told by re clare four German bn om participated in the bvmbard- ment of the town. From Whitby, it is also stated that eruisers were engaged, instéad of one. London, Dee. 16.--One person is réported to have killed st Whithy. In addition to the historic abbey, Which as partially destroyed, a number of houses were r About fifty shells 'were fired on 'ead of the three oilice not agree with from Searborough, They de- - v HON. WINSTON CHURCHILL ADMIRAL BARON FISHER coast, towns of Scarborough, Whitby and Hartlepool. At least one person is known to have been killed $ the German bombardment at Scarborough. Refugees Hull stated that a woman clerk in a store was killed whil. attending to her duties behind the counter. Lloyd's agent at West Hartlepool reported that the bombardment of Hartlepool lasted from 6.20 to 845 a.m. Considerable damage was done to property, he said. The German raid is believed to have started from Cuxliaven or Wilhelinshaven, German naval bases south of the Kiel canal, and about 310 miles from 'the British HON. ROBERT JAFFRAY DIED AT TORONTO Deceased Was Senator, and Pre. imperial Bank. Toronto, Dee. 16. ~Hom: Robett Jai. fray, senator of Canada, president of the Globe, recently elected president of the Imperial Bank, and one of. the most prominent men in Toronto, pass- ed away at 4 a.m., after a brief ill- ness. Mr. Jafirny was in his eighty- second year. Hon. My Jaliray was in his usual health on Friday last, and during that night was taken ill. Doctors were summoned at once and realized that the attack was very severe, The senator was conscious to the last. At 'the bedside was his son, W. C. Jaf- fray, and the daughters, Mrs. Eaton, of Owen Sound, and Mrs. Wellington Cameron, and Mr. Cameron. Another son, Rev. Robert Jafiray, is Presby- terian missionary at. Wu Chow, China. a---- INTERNED AT PETAWAWA. There Are Now 370 Prisoners of War There. Petawawa, Dec. 16.--Col. J M. Balderson, of Perth, commander of the 12nd Regiment, Lanark and Renfrew, arrived here yesterday with fifty men of his regiment. He Was accompanied by Major E. De Hertel, also of Perth The guard of one hundred men ordered to be supplied by 'the 42nd Regiment is now complete. Of the men who ar rived to-day 55 are from Smith's Falls and 15 from Carleton Place, which makes the total number of men from the 42nd Regiment now on active' service here and with the first and second overseas conting- ents four hundred and fifty. The number of prisoners of war now interned here is two hundred and seventy whiéh is expected to be Increased to -eight hundred within the next week. Provided With Nightshirts. Poston, Mass., Dec. 16.--Nightshirts are to be worn to-pight by inmates of the state prison in Charlestown for the first time, it is said, in the his tory of penal institutions. Sixteen hundred 'of them were ready to-day for listribution among the prisoners, each of "whom 'will he = supplied with two Four hundred new iron beds, with springs and mattresses, will tke ths olace of old-fashioned slat bunks in the old section of the prison. Sir Robert Borden left ysteriay for his promised visit te the mari- time provinces. aris, ~ Dec. 16.--Violent bombard- ment oi - Westende by British war ships seeking to drive back its Ger: man occupants, was reported in to day's official communique. The state ment indicated the greatest activity yesterday in the western war zone. It. was Wsserted that thé troops had 'repulsed counter-attacks by!' DECLARES GERMANY WILL LAST LONGEST Field Marshal von Der Goltz Believes Endurance Will Determine , 'via the. Hague and Lon- don, Dec. 18,--The correspondent of the Tagebldatt in Sofia, Bulgaria, telegraphs an interview he had with Field Marshal Baron Von Der (Goltz when the latter was om his Way to Constantinople. Apswering questions regarding the war situation in the west the field marshal pointed put that an army of millions of German 'sel®iers was in the enemy's country and that the richest French provinces were oe- cupied. "We don't underestimate our op- ponents," he said. '"The French and English fight with "utter coniempt for death, but we are gradually winning ground. and are convinced that some day the enemy's resist- ance will be broken. "Germany is prepared to wage the war for years, and the side which is able to stand the most and has the best discipline 'is bound to win The enthusiasm and morale of tie German soldier, fostered by good supply arrangements, we are sure, will ultimately make us victorious." FALLS INTO_HANDS OF GIRLS Man Trarmed By 29 Has to Sample Their Cooking. Pittsburgh, Dec, 16.+<Walter De- mar, the young wife-hunting .archi- tect, who asked a paper to find him a wife a few weeks ago, saying that he was possessed of 4 good diges- tion, had an experience Tuesday night that has somewhat discourag- ed 'his matrimonial.inelinations. De- mar received a letter from a girl 4sking him to call. When he arriv- ed at the house he was surrounded hy 29 girls, all of them -residénts of the big boarding house and ev- ery one had a sample of Mer cooking vich Deman was. obliged to taste. Called "Inmate," Not "Convict." Hartford, Conn., Dé. 16:+The word "convict," ring to prifoners, is no' longer in usé at the Connecticut state prison.. This ib one of a number of changes in rules made recently by Warden Ward A. Garner, and which, the warden says, Has had a beneficial effect on the prisoners. Phe word "in- mater or " - ers' is Siw used in informal talk; addréssing 'prison- ers and on the printed matter. Word has béen received in Cal- gary that Robert Miller, was badly wounded in the battle of Ypres. VIOLENT BOMBARDMENT OF WESTENDE BY BRITISH farms the Germans and had ied along the left bank of the Teer. In the regions of Arras, Aisne and Champagne, an artillery duel was con- tinually in progress, the French - ob. taiping an .. advantage: at several points. ¢ hg 'Inthe Woevre region 'the French are declared to have repulsed several ' at- tacks," Tt. Jeveral aks," "5 BLACKEST FAMINE NEAR. Americans. Loudon, Dec. 16.--If : someébod. y does not come (0 our aid, God knows what will become of us," write. two leadi residents of = Blankenburghe, West, Planders. in a pathetic appeal they "presented to-day to the repre- sentative at Rotterdam of the Ameri- can Commission for Relief in Belgium. These. men. were deputfied to seek relief -on behalf of Heyst, Wenduyne and several other ¢ommunities #8 well as' Blankenburghe, 'in all of which they say "the situation is so' grave that if in the near-futurs food doass not arrive they will be plunged in blackest famine." The plight of these places is particu- larly desperate because they are cut oft from all communication with the rest of Belgiunw-even with Benges, capital of the province in which they are situated. Blankenburghe, the appeal says, has receive no contributions of money or supplies from any soufes up to the present and has contrived to feed 1,600 persons daily, but now the funds of the community are completely, ex hausted. COULD NOT KINGSTON BUILD Some Submarines For the British Navy ? An article recently appeared stating that the dry dock' company of Por Arthur was making efforts to secure the building of submarines for the British navy at its works. It seems that if this work can be done at Port Arthur an elfort should be made b the local shipbuilding yard, shrough the Dominion government &t Ottawa, to obtain a part of the contract re cently awarded of 'twenty million. dol- lars for submarines. A. local repre- sentative should be sent to Ottawa to try to facilitate the placing of orders and outlining facts in regard. to the local companies and their plants. The promise exacted by President Wilson from President Schwab, of the Pittsburgh Steel company, that he would not build submarines for the British government in the United States, obliges the United States Steel company. to construct these ships in Canada. The Board of Trade should make an effort to obtnin this work for Kings- ton. FOR WIFK.: Has A Letter From President Wil. To Kaiser. Boston, Mass., Dec. 16.--Beari a personal "letter from President Wilson to Emperor William to aid him in his search for his wife, lost in Germany gince the outbreak of the war, Eward E. Muecke, of 'San Francisco, United States * vice-consul at Iquique, Chili, sail:d for Kurope yesterday on the steamer Canopic. Muecke fears his wife is ill and penniless. . She went to Germany over a year 0 for her health and when the war broke out her letters, 'which Muecke had before" received regularly, ceased. LOOKING son LASTED HALF HOUR. Hull, Eng., Dec. 16--The lat- est refugee to reach: Hull from Scarborough this afterpoon said "he saw three persons killed by the bursting of German shells. His own home was not 'dam aged, but the houses of neigh. bors only two doors away were demolished. The bombardmeént lasted half an hour. At West Hartlepool great damage was done to the town. The bursting shells blew great craters in the streets. At _Hartlepool, a shell crashed through the window of Lloyd's bank. Ft exploded, wrecking the interior and: caus- ing great damage. BARR RISB DPI b Dh d dsb PEP PP PIPPI EPI E PrP Son of Former Premier Dead Paris, Dec. 16.-----A son of fHrmer Uremier Barthou "has diéd _ from wounds received at Thann. Although only eighteen years old, young Bar- thou volunteered during the first days of thé war. He declined to accept an easy place on the war staff, and requested to be Sent to the firing line, where he won the highest praise for courage from his chiefs. . Banished to Siberia. Berlin, Dec. 16.---Baron Carl von Mantefel, who owns a fitie @3vate at Kardangen, near Libau, and the most prominent German noble in the Russian Baltic provinces, has been banished by the military chief of the district to Dwinsk, near Tomsk, Siberia. The excitement of the Bal- tic nobility because of this incident is reported to be great. Shackleton Expedition Sets Out. Sydney, - N.S.w. Dec. 18.---The steamer Aurora left lere Tuesday having on board that section of the Antarctic wxpedition of Bir Ernest which is to make its way to the Ross Sea, on the New Zea- land side of the Antarctic. This expedition expects to make a land- iy about the middle of Janwary. td -- A subscription of $5 was received Declare The Belgians In 'Appeal To| London, Dec. 16.--Four British' destroyers attacked the German cruisers which bombarded Hartlepool to-day after fifty shells had been fired upon the town and great: damage inflicted. The destroyers assailed the Germans as_ they were starting to draw off. Details of the naval engagement are lacking, owing to the censorship which has been es- tablished on all telephone and telegraph lines. The report of the attack by destroyers reached here from Neweéastle: Reports were circulated here late this afternoon that the British fleet, which went in pursuit of -- the German vessels, engaged in the bombardment of English coast cities, had sueeeeded in sinking two of the enemy's-ships. Lhere were also reporis that the British, fleet had suffered some damage. The press bureau would no con- firm either these or scores of other rumors in eiréulation here. ™ eae : The admiralty has commandeered all telegraph lines from Londen to the east coast cities, and it ighimpossible to get messages through. 2h Only a Raid For Revenge. London, Dec. 16,--To-day's raid on th by the German cruisers is probably an iso}afed atta does not suggept itself as an indieation that the . Kiel fleet has been ordered to put Britain's super- naughts to the test. The bontbardment of Sear Whithy and Hartelpool are doubtless no moe. desperate search for revenge for the desfritefi miral Von 8pee's squadron. It is hardly attacking German fleet will be able to 3 ase. Ea A sea battle is in progress this afternoon in the: North Sea with the German cruisers which 'bombarded: Hattle pool, and part of the British fleet. - Susi Seaplanes are patrélling the Northumberland coast to guard against another attack upon English cities by German ships, which might succeed in 'dige zing them- selves from the battle. The fight started o F Hartlepool. The latest reports merely stated the battle was proceeding. No details could be obtained owitig to the 'eénsorship which has been established. Rumors of losgss: on' both sides were widely circulated, but were without confirma- tion. DAILY 'MEMORANDUM. Band at Palace rink to-night. Domestic Science basa Friday Vaudeville, Grand Oper® House, 7.30 in pan. "The Rogue's Comedy," House, 8.15 p.m. See top of page 3 ht hand corner, or probabilities. a Engineers' Association meets ~ morrow, Labor Hall, at 8 p.m. MARRIED THOMPSON --COWAN-~At Winnipeg, . 46th," 1914, by Rev. , 'of Grace Methodist Nettie Marion, only daugh- of Mr. '8nd Mrs, Archibald J. Cowan, Kilbirple, Ont, to Arthur Strachan Thompson, youngest son of the late J. uncan Thompson, Kingston, Ont. | THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Is on Sale at the Following City Stores: Bucknell's News Depét. ..296. King Clarke, J. W, & 00. 4..5.,353 Princ College Book Store «:....163 Prk - {Coulter's Grocery ...siuns" 309, Bri Cullen's Grocery, Cor. Piitcens & Alfred Carnoveky, T. R. ... 448. Frontenac Hotel ...ivevvg Gibson's Drug Storé .. McAuley's Book 8téréd ....893 Pringess McGall's Cigar Store; Cor, Prin. & Kihg McLeod's Grocery '....51 Union Bt. W. Medley's Drug Stord 300 University Ave Paul's Cigar, Store "...i.i 16 Pfintess Prouséd's Drug Store' ...:313' Prificess Valleau's Grocery /..... 208 Montreal Lowe's "Grocery. ,..i:.4.« Portsmouth Grand Opera =. to- BORN SAVAGE--In this city, at 331 Barrie St, on Dec. 16th, 1914, at 3 am. to Mrs. A. Favage, a son. DIED » SAVAGE--In this eity, at 231 Barrie St, on Dec. 16th, 1914, at 7 a.m, in- fant 'son of Mrs. A. Savage. HUNT---In Kingston, on Dec. 16th, ah J. V. Hunt, will 18ave the family reei- ence, 114 Johnson St, un friday morning at 9.15, for St. Mary's Cathedral, where a snlomn requiem mass will be sung for the happy repose of his soul. Friends and acquaintances are respect. fully invited to: attend. JAMES 264 and 266 "Phone 147 § Liberal Majority Red d Ottawa, Dec. 16.--The death of Nen- Lator Jafiray reduces the liberal mm. jority in' the vpper house still Tr. When the eight vacancies are filled by the appointment of conservatives, the iberal majority in the wu hou'é will be eleven. The death of six more liberal senators will give the conservatives a majority in the sen- ate. Dog Returns After 14 Years. Evansville, Ind., Dec. 16.~Fourteen Years ago, believing he was about to die, Hiram n §