Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-07-06
IN LONDON
Description Of English Newspaper in
Time Of War.

Time Of War.
A month ago the Observer received
a personal letter from an Englishman
to the effect that as he wanted this
paper to get a correct view Of events
transpiring in Europe, he had order
ed the London Sunday Observer sent
us. The paper has been coming with
the regularity Of normal times. It Is
filled with war news, as matter Of
course but all the departments usual
with a metropolitan paper are main
tained, there being columns Of book
reviews, theatrical notices, court and
society affairs, miscellaneous reading
matter and advertisements Of all
kinds. There is a two-column display
advertisement featuring Lord Kitch-
ener's call for 100000 recruits to form
new armies, to which, the paper says
in large type, there Is only one re-
from every man who is between 19 and
40 years of age and physically fit
that is to go to the nearest recruiting
Office 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 serv-
ice. Under a subhead is given names
Of those killed or suffering from pois-
oned gas. They speak Of Zeppelin raids
as things to be expected and guarded
against. But it appears 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 eXtinguishing Of the fires started
by the explosives. One Of the warn
ing notices carries this paragraph:
"As everyone knows, it is not the
mere dropping Of a 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 a 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 grenade is 5s, Sd, and
this is regarded las so trifling that 1t
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
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 Pres
ident Wilson's last note to Germany.
The conclusions of the editor are in
teresting. He judges from Wilson's
note that nothing is further from
his mind than to let the subject be
talked out in an evasive and disingen-
uous correspondence" and. also. that
his ;nterrogatories have been so
framed that. even by shutting her
mouth. Germany cannot avoid giving
them an effectual answer. Placable
as it is in form, the dialectic Of the
two notes is i'm essence almost merci-
lessly ineluctable. e."-Charlotte Observ-
er.