The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-14
NORTHCLIFFE DIES
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army in France was insuff1clentIy
equipped with high explosive shells.
that British guns on the French front
were short of ammunition and that
Lord Kitchener, then secretary of
state for war, was sending the British
gunners shrapnel while Sir John
French, d Ommander. was appeal
ing for the same kind of high expIo-
sives that Germany was hurting over
the lines in vast quantities.
This exposure has been character
lied as one of the outstanding jour :
nalistic feats of the war. 1t resulted
George as the first British minister
of munitions and put him on the roa
to become prime minister.
-~orsed Harding Plans.
During his world tour. Lord North
cliffe occupied the public attention of
each country he visited, displaying
great knowledge of the problems fac
ing various nations Arriving in New
York, July 20, 1921, he warmly en-
dorsed President HardingS plans for
the armament conference. In Aus
tralta he saw a Save danger in that
country being overrun by Asiatics,
and in several addresses revealed an
intimate knowledge of AuStralia's ma
tional problems. During his tour of
the Pacific he made a close study of
the situation in the Far East, and in
Hongkong expressed Il opinion hat
the Angle-Japanese Alliance was a
bar to its solution. He returned to
London from his tour in May, 1922.
In June he was reported to have made
a tour of Germany incognito.
Shortly after the completion of his
world tour. differences grew in the
Newspaper Proprietors association
criticising certain methods of the
newer members of the association. He
later resigned.
In May, 1922, dissension broke out
between Northcliffe and other mem
bers of the Associated Newspapers
Ltd, owners of the Northcliffe press.
In June, 1922, libel suits were brought
against Lord Northcliffe by Sir An
drew Card, vice. chairman, and Wal
ter G. Fish. a director of Associated
Newspapers.
The day on which the announce
ment of the filing of these suits was
made, Northcliffe was reported to be
suffering from a nervous breakdown
in Switzerland. He was brought back
to England several days later, and
was reported then to be ill from
ptomaine poisoning.
Early in July his differences with
Lloyd George were said to have been
ended and the libel actions brought
been dropped. His health, however.
continued to grow worse, his ailment
being diagnosed as due to unknown
poisoning
Was Born In Ireland.
Born in Chapelizod, Ireland, July
Is, 1865, Alfred Charles William
Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe,
started his career as a subordinate
editor in a publishing house writing
answers to correspondents. This sug-
gested to him a newspaper career,
which he embarked upon by publica-
ton of a weekly magazine called AN
swers." Succeeding in this and other
ventures in publications, he eventually
founded the London Daily Mail, the
first London morning newspaper to
sell for a half penny. He is said to
have been the owner of some sixty
periodicals having a circulation of
100000 copies.
In 1888 he married Miss Mary
Elizabeth Miner, daughter of Robert
Miner, of Kindlington and st. Vincent.
His daughter was the wife of Lucas
w. King. principal of a medical school
at Madras One of Viscount North
cliffe's brothers was Baron Rother-
mere of Hemstead. who with another
brother. Hildebrand, was associated
with Viscount Northcliffe in journal