THE RAID
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“Do you remember Black Mary of Hamburg?”
“Aye, well.”
“She got six years for killing a child, whilst we get the Iron Cross for killing twenty at Hartlepool.”
This morning a German cruiser force made a demonstration upon Yorkshire coast, in the course of which they shelled Hartlepool, Whitby, and Scarborough.
A number of their fastest ships were employed for this purpose, and they remained about an hour on the coast. They were engaged by patrol vessels on the spot.
During the bombardment, especially in West Hartlepool, the people crowded in the streets, and approximately twenty-two were killed and fifty wounded.
British Admiralty report. December, 1914.
