Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-09-17

To see a 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
", / hated it. We had just been hav-
ing our own imaginations stimulated
on the subject of shells striking.
Now, a few minutes later, to see an
other ship not three miles away, re-
dueed to a piteous mass of unrecog-
INABILITY, wreathed in black fumes
from which fared out angry gusts OF
fire like Vesuvius in eruption, as an
unending stream of hundred pound
shells burst on board it, 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 it it was absolutely
wrecked. 1t was a Tuning inferno. But
it had one gun forward and one aft
still splitting forth fury and defiance
like wild cat.
Then we went west, while they
went east. Just bit later we heard
the thunder of the enemy's guns for
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
yivors. 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, % miles from
the nearest land, and that land an
enemy's fortress, with nothing but fog
and foes around them, and then sud
denly swirl alongside, and up, if you
please, hops his Britannia majestys
submarine E-4, opens its coming
tower, takes them all on board, shuts
up again, dives and brings them home,
$50 miles.
Is not that magnificent? No novel
list would dare face the critics with
an episode like that, except, perhaps,
Jules Verne, and yet here it is, and all
true"
England in Anger.
Calm, methodical, undemonstrative
Britain, slow to arouse, is getting into
a passion which is carrying the nation
to a point of deathless determination
to defeat the Germans. The gloriously
gallant fight that the small British
force has been making to stem the
German food towards Paris has
touched this countrys Imagination,
aroused the martial spirit and called
forth rush to the colOrs.
Hitherto the country has not
seemed to realize fully the portent Of
events across the channel and. as in
the South African war, it's taken
bit of pounding of their own forces to
bring the people to the point of patri-
otto anger which the situation de-
manded. Now they have reached that
point.
Stormed by Recruits.
The recruiting stations were over
whelmed, hundreds standing outside in
waiting lines. 1t was reported that
$4,000 have been accepted during the
last three days. It's a glorious upris,
ing of the whole nation, which has
come to fully realize the necessity of
not only clearing the seas of the enc
mics ships, but helping the allies on
land as we'll
With this condition prevailing, Lord
Kitchener will find it possible to send
a steady flow of fresh men to the
front The removal of the French
government to Bordeaux received gen.
eral approval here, and is considered
the logical step under the circum-
stances.
Devotion of Peeresses.
The following letter, signed by five
women of title, is addressed to the
press:
"The undersigned have all got near
relations serving with the colors. Most
of them have got near relations who
have borne and are bearing a part in
the gallant and sanguinary battle
which the British army is fighting
against heavy odds on the northeast
frontier of France.
eve know not what their fate has
been or yet may be; but if it is their
fortune to die for their country, we
shall not show our sorrow as for those
who come to a less glorious end. A
white band around the arm will mark
both our loss and our grief; but it
will do more; it will express the pride
we feel in knowing that those who
are nearest to us and dearest have
given up their lives in their country's
cause"