Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-09-18
AVAL OFFICER SAYS SEA FIGHT
va WAS NOT BATTLE BUT MASSACRE

of their guns was Just like a cooling
drink.
ITO see a real big four funneleI
spouting flame, which fame denoted
shells starting, and those shells not a.
us but for us, was the most Cheerful.
thing possible. Once we were in safe
ty, | hated 1t. We had just been hay
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
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 al
amending stream Of hundred pound
shells burst on board 1t, just pointed
the moral and showed US what might
have been.
SAYS MaInz Acted Calamity.
THE Mainz was immensely gallant
The last | saw of it 1t was absolutely
wrecked. 1t was a Tuning inferno. But
It had one gun forward and one all
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 enemy's guns for q
| 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 a Submarine.
Imagine their feelings, alone In an
open boat without food, rs 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 face the critics with
an episode like that, except, perhaps,
Jules Verne, and yet here 1t 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 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 not
seemed to realize fully the portent Of
events across the channel and, as in
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-
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 neal
relations serving with the colors, Mos
Of them have got near relations who
have borne and are bearing u part IL
the gallant and sanguinary battle
which the British army is fighting
against heavy odds on the northeasr
frontier Of France,
I'VE know not what their fate has
been or yet may be; but if it is theil
fortune to die for their country, W,
shall not show our sorrow as for those
who come to a less glorious end. A
white band around the arm will mari
both our loss and our grief; but /
will do more; 1t will eXpreus the pride
we feel in knowing that those whit
are nearest to us and dearest hav,
given up their lives in their country
cause"