Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1914-09-19

OF their guns was Just like coo,,n.
drink. N'0lilg
ITO see real big four fpnro,.
spouting flame, which fame denotos
shells starting, and those shells NJ, y
US but for us, was the most che
thing possible. Once we were IN 49, ~
ty, l hated it. We had just been bas
ing our own imaginations stimr,ata.
on the subject of shells striking
Now, few minutes later. 10 SEQ -.
other ship not three miles awav :.
duced to a piteous mass of unracoe
INABILITY, wreathed In black fnroe.
from which fared out angry gusts y.
fire like Vesuvius in eruption 90 ~
amending stream of hundred mona
shells burst on board 1t, Just pointas
the moral and showed US what mick,
have been.
Says Malnz Acted Calamity.
The Mainz was immensely galIsn,
The last ! saw of it it was absolptoIy
wrecked. 1t was Tuning inferno Rn,
1t had one gun forward and one an
still splitting forth fury and defiance
like a wild cat.
Then we went west, while they
went east. Just a bit later we heard
the thunder of the enemys 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 I'D 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 tog
and foes around them, and then sud.
denly swirl alongside, and up, if you
please, hops his Britannia majestys
submarine E4, opens its coming
tower, takes them iii on board, Nhuts
up again, dives and brings the IN home,
$50 miles.
rs not that magnificent? No novel.
list would dare face the critics with
an episode like that, except, perhaps,
Jules Verne, and yet here it ia. and all
true"
England In Anger.
Calm, methodical, undemonstratve
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 gloriouslys
gallant fight that the small BRITISH
force has been making to stem the
German flood towards Paris has
touched this country's imagination.
aroused the martial spirit and called
forth a rush to the colOrs.
Hitherto the country has nos|
seemed to realize fully the portent q
events across the channel and. as ID
the South African war, it's taken 4.
bit of pounding of their own forces a
bring the people to the point of patrii
otto anger which the situation des|
manded. Now they have reached thaE3
point.
StoPmed by Recruits.
The recruiting stations were over
whelmed, hundreds standing outside 81
waiting lines. 1t was reported thaS
$4,000 have been accepted during -
last three days. It's glorious upr%a
ing of the whole nation, which naS
come to fully realize the necessity "a
not only clearing the seas Of the enc
mics ships, but helping the allies y
! land as well.
With this condition prevailing Lor
Kitchener will find it possible TO sem
steady flow of fresh men to "a
front. The removal OF the frehc q
government to Bordeaux received ge
/ eral approval here, and is considers
the logical step under the clFeu1
stances.
Devotion Of Peeresses
The following letter, signed by ~
women of title. is addressed 10 y
press:
THE undersigned have ali got ~
relations serving with the coloFs' NJ
OF them have got near relations
have borne and are bearing psi'
the gallant and sanguinary "a.
which the British army IS ngnu- =
against heavy odds on the noF'ns
frontier of France.
1--WE know not what their la'7
been or yet may be; but If Il Is T."
fortune to die for their counu!
shall not show our sorrow as lol
who come to a less glorious emu
white band around the arm VIII -.
both our loss and our grlel, w.
will do more; It will express 'ne
we feel in knowing that those
are nearest to US and dearest - u
given up their lives in their co-D
cause"