The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-07-22
IN LONDON.
description of English Newspaper in
Time of War.

Time OF War.
A month ago the Observer receiv-
ed a personal letter from an English
man to the effect that as he wanted
this paper to get a correct view Of
events transpiring in Europe, he had
ordered the London Sunday Observ-
er sent us. The paper has been COM
ing with the regularity of normal
times. 1t is filled with war news.
as a matter of course. but all the de-
partments usual with metropolitan
paper are maintained. there being
columns of book reviews. theatrica!
/ notices, court and society affairs, mis-
cellaneous reading matter and adver-
| tisements of all kinds. There is
two-column display advertisement
featuring Lord kitcheners call for
! 100000 recruits to form new armies,
. to which, the paper says in large
type, there is only enc reply-that
our king and country expect from
every man who is between 10 and 40
years of age and physically fit-that
is to go to the nearest recruiting Of
! fee and join the army" Under the
Roll of Honor" is printed column
after column of colonial losses, in
Guiding officers and privates killed or
wounded in all branches of the SER
vice. Under a subhead is given
names of those killed or suffering
from poisoned gas. They speak of
! Zeppelin raids as things to be expect
ed and guarded against. But it ap-
pears that there is but one way in
which the population of London can
minimize the effects of the Zeppelin
bombs and that is in the extinguish-
| ing of the fires started by the ex-
plosives. One of the warning notices
carries this paragraph:
LAS everyone knows, it is not the
mere dropping of bomb that is so
much to be feared as the serious
after-danger from fire, owing to the
fact that these bombs are charged
with thermit, a terrible compound,
which upon ignition Immediately gen.
crates the enormous heat Of 5000 de-
grees Fahrenheit, which can best be
realized when it is stated at this heat
cast steel runs like melted tallow."
Only the day before this paper had
been printed there had been discov-
cred new chemical called "antizep,"
which was advertised as compound
that would Immediately overcome the
effects of the thermit bombs and ex-
! tinguish the fires. The antizep is put
up in hand grenades and the London
ers are advised to keep a grenade in
every room in every house in London.
The cost of a grenade is 5s, Sd, and
this is regarded las so trifling that it
would be foolish, indeed, for any
home to be without one or more.
Much space is given to fashion and
! shopping news, and the New York
| market reports take up considerable
room, bethlehem Steel" being con-
spicuously quoted. The editorial page
is ponderously heavy. There is one
editorial which would make four
columns in the Observer, evidently
one that is strong and to the point.
as it declares the next need is action.
not delay" There is review Of
President Wilson's last note to Ger
many. The conclusions of the editor
are interesting. He judges from Will
sons note that nothing is further
from his mind than to let the subject
be talked out in an evasive and dis
ingenious correspondence" and, al
so, that his interrogatories have
been so framed that, even by shut
ting her mouth, Germany cannot
avoid giving them an effectual an
swer. Placable as it is in form, the
dialectic of the two notes is in es-
sence almost mercilessly ineluctable." "
Charlotte Observer.