The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1917, 1915-02-02
BLINDS WERE WFIISKED
DOWN AND CITY WAS
SOON IN DARKNESS
WAR SITUATION
REMAINS THE SAME.
Submarine Attacks on British
Merchant Ships Paramount
Topic of Discussion.
(By Associated Pe.s)

LONDON, Feb. Especial orders
issued by the police early tonight
caused blinds to be whisked down all
over London, and reports spread that
i've 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
for 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
been issued by the war office, but
wheher because aircraft really had
been sighted or as rehearsal it
WAS impossible to- ascertain.
One message from Dover reported
that the raiders had been driven off,
but no details were Forthcoming.
This furry broke the monotony of
: news from battle fronts, where none
or the armies, either in the east or the
west has delivered a 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
i more raids are accomplished West
scoast shipping tonight temporary
OF all sailihgs for Bel
fast, Liverpool and Glasgow. One
other Dublin company also has sus-
pended sailings. but other schedules
are being maintained.
The chief soiace Great Britain
finds In the German submarine at
tacks Is that the craft thus used can
not take part in regular naval opera
tions. q
Out OF the confused fighting in the
Cafpathians, which continues to .domf-
. nate the military situation, comes
nothing In the way Of the decisive
4 conflict and perhaps the most signi-
fcaht news from the east, Is the re-
port from Petrograd that Field Mar
shall Won Hidepburg is planning anoth-
er general onslaught on the Russian
lines west Of Warsaw.
Artillery dueis almost exclusively
have been the measure of the recent
fighting In France and Belgium. The
German official statement. dismisses
the ywestcrn theatre with the terse
annOnncement nothing to report"
y The French record only one infantry
attack, southeast of Ypres, where they
y .ooS GncS SeoppSu dcVHlhu attempt
!, to advance.
Z, The British parliament will reas-
: 4ssemble tomorrow to consider war
time questions. Although no .conten-
tious Legislation will be debated, the
labor party will press for government
action with reference to the increase
In the price Of food, alien enemy re-
strfctions probably, again. will be
threshed out, and there is likely to be
q further request for more informa-
tion on the recruiting situation
London newspapers pointing
out the growing unrest I'm labor cir
cles and there is a belief in some
quarters that this may necessitate ac-
tion by the government. Fifty thous-
and miners In West Yorkshire, whose
! agreement with their, employers ex-
pfres in o fortnight, are demanding
<wage increases on o threat TO strike.
The Welsh miners are demanding fas
creased pay and better working con-
sditions, while the railway men con-
tend that their wages are, not In keep
ing with the increased cost of living.
sp The first thing to be dealt with by
parliament, however. will be finance.
: The old year Will be wound uH and
the new. estimates discussed