Evening star., 1914-08-19
ENGLAND APPEARS
. T0BE ARMED CAMP
Soldiers Are in Every London
Square and Notices
for More.
SOLID SOBER BRITISH
ENTHUSIASM PREVAIL S
Boys Trying to Join Army Are Told
to Get Parents Con-
sent First.
Special Correspondence of The star.

Special Correspondence of The star
LONDON, August 81 have never seen
such crowds and such activity In London
streets as now. Enthusiasm, eagerness
to enlist offers of private help to the
government. cheerfulness In the face of
sacrifices and new burdens and conditions
reach the highest pitch known in Eng
land since Napoleon's days: The hub
nub of the Boer war was small in com
parison with today's evidences of a ma
tion's solidarity and devotion Best of
all there is absolutely no mafficking, no
Jingoism but calm, sober-eyed. hard
working enthusiasm
All England is an armed camp. SOL
diers are in every London square and
thousands of tesritorials and volunteers
are gathering every hour. Churches
public buildings and boardings are
p'acarded with orders calling out reserv-
ISIS. territorials and volunteers. Already
the eNpeditionary force has begun to en-
park for Belgium to help relieve that
brave little country In it's plucky fight
against the Germans. and battles are re-
ported on the North sea
strict censorship prevails and only a
modlcum of the news is really known.
IN every cable office sit leisurely gentle
men. arms. hands and eyes bound with
war office red tape. who pass Judgment
Oh every message that comes OF. goes
tuo II IS becoming almost impossible to
pursue the business of a news gatherer
under the irksome conditions.
Messages. harmless chronicles from
anherica, take from five to ten hours in
delivery. They arrive in good time over
the cables and are Immediately handed
on TO the censors. who calmly and with
out the least knowledge or appreciation
OF now least count in newspaper work
allow them to accumulate Tbursday
iisnt Tour words announcing the death
OF Mrs wilson took five hours and ten
minutes to get by these leisurely work
ers."
Forbid Registered Addresses.
NOT only have all codes been STONED.
out the use of registered addresses known
10 cable companies and the commercia1
world for many years is forbidden. All
receivers of messages from America and
sise"here must be addressed in their
fuit names with the number and straat
OF their office, while senders ynust sfsn
their full name, too. All this makes for
ueiay and confusion, but 1 understand
lhat II has been ordered for fear that
1ermans might learn Of English move
"ients Dy news of code addresses alone.
VI course. the text of the MESSAGE 20
censored. chopped up or altered hut No
one IN his senses thinks of cabling any
information that is not likely to pass. We
al recognize that censorship is neces
sary ana we are all Loyalty striving TO
90 what is asked and to help in every
way possible this country where we live
put IL does seem pity that men who
have little sympathy and apprec;ation.
OF newspaper work could not have been
appointed to look after press matter.
we have been without money. with
prices of food rising for the past week.
banKs reopened yesterday, but there was
little rush for money. The new paner
notes for one pound and ten shillines are
crude. out were got out in hurry and
may be improved. Everybody ia cheer
fui and Is accepting the new situation
spiendidly- few tempers here and
there show signs of wear
BUT the streetS-the streets are crowded
hli the time, very different from the usual
August London. Thousands Of rapid
motors OF all description are dashine
about at full speed. soldiers marching
driiing. food and store wagons rafting
aions' hundreds of commandeered horses
pens ned through the streets and the
SIDEWALKS Jamnled with people at All
hours. Hotels are full, packed with
americans and others stranded here and
most nightiiy glad to get to England
aiter highly exciting experiences.
bnt with all the crowds and natural
excitement the war fever has not got
hold of London and in the present snirJ,
do not think it will
Demonstration in London.
remember too vividly the scenes the
fomuit and the shouting in those mar
Hcking DAYS of the Boer war. when ma
'riotlc cation degenerated into hysterical
Ingoism, to welcome return OF that
sort OF thing. But / liked the spirit OF
'he Angio-French crowd in Piccadilly cir
Gus at midnight the other night.
~ mad started at the closing time in tho
are Royal. which had sent thirty-one of
IT'S thirty-hve cooks and several of its
Salters TO join the colors in France.
some one stood on a table and shouted
Vive la F'rance"' In a second every one
was standing. waving hats in the air and
cheering. voiceless Irshman began
La Marseilk,ise." and after several ef-
Iorts the crowd. not knowing the words.
took il up. Then came God Save the
King" and Rule Britannia" and the
wnoIe company marched out into Regent
street, infianed with the good wine of
enthusiasm-for France and the entente
BY the time they reached Piccadilly cir
Gus they formed the nucleus Of a demon
stratfng crowd. some 1000 strong, and
stood FOR over an hour cheering, and
cneenng every soldier In uniform who
came among them. and roaring with de-
light when a huge union jack was un-
furled on the roof of the Criterion. It
took an omnibus nearly ten minutes to
cross from Regent street to the Hay
market. and pedestrians took penny trips
across. obtaining a grandstand view OF
the demonstration
As / stood watching and listening I
felt my hand seized and vigorously
shaken.
Goodbye, SIR" said a voice. 1t be-