The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-02
BLINDS WERE. WHISKED
DOWN AND CITY WAS
SOON IN DARKNESS
WAR SITUATION
REMAINS THE SAME
Submarine Attacks on British
Merchant Ships Paramount
Topic of Discussion.
tBy Associated Press.)

LONDON, Feb. Especial orders
issued by the police early tonight
caused blinds to be whisked down all
over London, and reports, spread that
hve zeppelin dirigible balloons, sight
ed over Dover and presumably maxi
ing inland, had been fired on by the
forts.
Parst of the city of London waited
Tor more than two hours with blinds
drawn, but nothing happened. In
Quiries ELECTED from the police that
orders to prepare for an air raid had
oeen issued by the war, office, but
wheher because aircraft really had
been sighted or as rehearsal il
was impossible to ascertain.
One message from Dover reported
that the raiders had been driven OF,
put no details were forthcoming.
This furry broke the mono.ony of
news from battle fronts, where none
or the armies, either in the east or the
west has delivered blow sufficient
to cause any shift In their alignment.
German submarine attacks on
British merchant ships continue the
paramount topic of discussion, and
predictions are made that food prices.
already soaring, will go still higher if
more raids are accomplished West
coast shipping tonight temporary
abandonment OF all sailings for Bel
fast, Liverpool and Glasgow. One
OTHER Dublin company alsG has sue
pended Eailipgs. but other schedules
are being maintained
The CHIEF solace Great Britain
finds In the German submarine az.
tacksg Sc that the craft thus used cam
not take pflrt In regular nayal opera
.fions. s.sS q q. !;
Out OF the cunfused fighting fin the
Carpathians, which continues to domi-
nate the military situation, comes
nothing in the way Of the decisive
conflict and perhaps. the most signi-
ficant news from the east Is the re-
port from Petrograd that Field Mar
shai Won Hidenburg is planning anoth-
er general onslaught on, the Russian
lines west Of Warsaw.
Artillery duels almost exclusively
have been the measure of the recent
fighting In France and Belgium. The
German official statement dismisses
the western theatre with the terse
announcement nothing to report"
The French record only one infantry
attack, southeast of Ypres, where they
say they stopped a German attempt
to advance.
The British parliament will reas-
semble tomorrow to consider war
time questions. Although no. conten-
tious/ legislation viii be debated, the
labor party will press for government
action with reference to the increase
in the price of food, alien enemy re-
strictions probably again will be
threshed out, and there is likely to be
further request for more informa-
tion on the recruiting situation.
London newspapers are pointing
out the growing unrest in labor cir
cles and there is a belief in some
quarters that this may necessitate ac-
tton by the government. Fifty thous-
and miners In West Yorkshire, whose
agreement with their employers ex-
pires in fortnight, aref demanding
wage increases ON threat to strike
The Welsh miners are demanllItg IN
creased pay and better working con-
diticus. while the railway men con-
tend that their wages are not in keep
ing with the increased cost of living
The first thing to. be dealt with by
parliament, however. will be finance.
The old year viii be wound uni ana
the new estimates discussed.