The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1914-09-12

ol tneir guns was Just like cooling
drink.
ITO see real big four funneler
spouting flame, which fame denoted
shells starting. and those shells not at
us but for us, was the most cheerful
thing possible. Once we were in safe
ty, | hated it. We had Just been hav.
Ing our own imaginations stimulated
on the subject of shells striking.
Now. few minutes later. to zee an.
other ship not three miles away, re-
duced to n plteous mass OF unrecog-
INABILITY, wreatbsd In black fumes
from which flares out angry gusts OF
lire like Nesuvius In eruption, as an
unending stream OF hundred pound
shells burst on board II, just pointed
the moral and showed us what might
have been.
Says Mainz Acted Calamity.
The Mainz was immensely gallant
The last l saw of II II was absolutely
wrecked. II was fuming inferno. But
II had one gun forward and one aft
still splitting forth fury and defiance
like wild cat.
went east. Just a bit later we heard
the thunder OF the enemy's guns for a
space. Then fell silence, and we knew
that was all
The most romantic, dramatic and
piquant episode that modern war can
ever show came next The Defender.
having sunk an enemy, lowered
whaler to pick up its swimming sur.
vivors. Before the whaler got back.
an enemy's cruiser came up and
chased the Defender. which thus had
to abandon Its small boat
Up Pops a Submarine.
Imagine their feelings, alone In an
open boat without food. 25 miles from
! the nearest land. and that land an
enemys fortress. with nothing but fog
and foes around them, and then sud
denly swirl alongside, and up. II you
please. hops his Britannia majesty's
submarine E-4. opens its coming
tower. takes them all on Loard, shuts
up again. dives and brings them home.
| $50 miles.
! rs not that magnificent? No novel
list would dare face the critics with
an episode like that. except. perhaps,
8 Jules Verne, and yet here It Ia. and all
! | true"
. England In Anger.
n Calm, methodical. undemonstrative
{ Britain, slow to arouse, is getting into
e a passion which is carrying the nation
a to q point OF deathless determination
d to defeat re Germans. The gioricusly
gallant fight that the small BRITISH
force has been making to stem thu
d German food towards Paris hal
r, touched this country's imagination
II aroused the martial spirit and Gale,
n forth a rush to the colors.
d Hitherto the country has no
n seemed to realize fully the portent o
d events across the channel and, as II
n the South African war. it's taken I
bit OF pounding OF their own forces tt
& bring the people to the point OF patri
@ otto anger which the situation de
d handed. Now they have reached that
s point.
d stormed by Recruits.
a The recruiting stations were over
whelmed, hundreds standing outside In
a waiting lines. II was reported that
q $4,000 have been accepted during the
n last three days. It's a glorious uprls
I ing OF the whole nation. which has
+ come to fully realize the necessity Of
!. not only clearing the seas OF the enc
0 mics ships but helping the allies on
d land as well.
g With this condition prevailing, Lord
Kitchener will find II possible to send
a steady flow OF fresh men to the
:. front The removal OF the French
q government to Bordeaux received gen
q eral approval here, and is considered
e the logical step under the circum
A stances.
A DevotiCS Of Peeresses.
{ The following letter signed by five
( women of title, is addressed to the
press:
Y The undersigned have all got near
| relations serving with the colors Most
/ of them have got near relations who
= nave borne and are bearing part In
r the gallant and sanguinary battle
q which the British army Is fighting
I against heavy odds on the northeast
Q frontier of France.
{ I'VE know not what their fate has
4 been or yet may be; but II 1t Is thef
fortune TO die for their country, We
q shall not show our sorrow as for those
. who come to less glorious end. A
q white band around the arm will mark
A both our loss and our grief; but II
, will do more; It will express the pride
A we feel in knowing that those who
e are nearest to US and dearest have
given up their lives in their countrys
cause"