The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-09-17

OF their guns was just like a cooling
drink
To see q real big four funneler
spouiing flame, which flame denoted
shells starting. and those shells not at
us but for us, wan the most cheerful
thing possible. Once we were In safe
~. hated H. We had just been hay.
ing our own imaginations stimulated
ON the subject OF shells striking.
Now. a few minutes later, 10 see an.
other ship not three miles away, re.
duesd to piteous mass ~ unrecog
INABILITY. wreathed In black fumes
from which Jared out angry gusts of
IRE like YeAuyiua In eruption. az an
unendiBg stream OF hundred pound
shells burst on board II. just pointed
the moral and showed US what might
have been.
says Malnx Acted oalIantiy.
The Mainz waA immensely gallant.
The last saw Of IL 4 was absolutely
wrecked. IL was q tuning inferno. But
II had one gun forward and one AFT
sim splitting forth fury and defiance
like Wild cat
Then We went west. while they
went east just a bit later We heard
the thunder Of the enemy's 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 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 It's small boat.
Up Pops . 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. II you
please. hops his Britannia majesty's
submarine E-4. opens It's 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 II 10. and all
true"
England In Anger.
| Calm, methodical, undemonstrative
Britain, slow to arouse, Is getting into
a passion which is carrying the nation
to 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 a rush to the colors.
Hitherto the country has moi
seemed to realize fully the portent Of
events across the channel and. as II
the South African war. it's taken 4
bit of pounding of their own forces t.
bring the people to the point OF patri
otto anger which the situation de
manded. Now they have reached thai
point.
Stormed by Recruits.
The recruiting stations we're over
whelmed, hundreds standing outside IL
waiting lines. II was reported tina
$4,000 have been accepted during tn,
last three days. It's a glorious upris
ing of the whole nation, which hal
come to fully realize the necessity o
not only clearing the seas OF the enc
mics ships, but helping the allies oil
land as we'll
With this condition prevailing, Lore
Kitchener will find 1t possible to sent
steady flow of fresh men to tn,
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 fiv'
women of title, Is addressed to thu
press:
THE undersigned have all got nea
relations serving with the colors. Mos
of them have got near relations WHIT
have borne and are bearing part IL
the gallant and sanguinary battle
which the British army is fighting
against heavy odds on the northeas
frontier of France.
I'VE know not what their fate hal
been or yet may be; but II 1t is thei
fortune to die for their country, w
shall not show our sorrow as for thos'
who come to a less glorious end.
white band around the arm will mari
both our loss and our grief; but l
will do more; 1t will express the prid'
we feel in knowing that those whC
are nearest to us and dearest have
given up their lives In their country
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