The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-09-19


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To see a real big four funpeler
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, few minutes later, TO see an
other ship not three miles away, re-
duced 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 MaiRz was immensely gallant.
The last I saw of it it was absolutely
wrecked It was Tuning Inferno But
1t had one gun forward and one aft
ike a wild cat
Then we went west, while they
went east Just a bit later we heard
the thunder of the eaemy'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 a
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 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 a swirl alongside, and up, if you
please, hops his Britannia majesty's
submarine E-4, opens its coming
| tower, takes them all on board, shuts
! up again, dives and brings them home,
| $50 miles.
rs not that magnificent? No novel
list would dare facelthe 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 country's 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
I the South African war, it's taken a
| 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
wheImed, hundreds standing outside in
waiting lines. It 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 well
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
eraI approval here, and is considered
the logical step under the circum-
stances
Devotion of Peeresses-
I 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.
I'VE know not what their fate has
been or yet may be; but if it is their
fortune 20 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 viii mark
both our loss and our grief; but II
viii 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
cause