Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-08-18
N0RTHCLIFFE DEAD
Great Efltaln's Leading Publisher
Passes Peacefully Away.
MADE And DESTROYED MANY OFFICIALS
Stricken Weeks Ago While travelling

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Incoanito in Germany-owned
Great Chain of Newspapers and Was
Largely Responible for Winning o.
World War-Long One of the Mos
Powerful Men Of England.
Alfred Harmsworth ,Dord North
cliffe), England's greatest publisher
died early Monday afternoon, following
long period of i'll health.
Death was due to infectious ol
ulcerative endocarditis, which. ac-
cording to one of the physicians in at
tendance, probably began insidiousfy
months ago, possibly during. his trip
around the world.
Lord Northclifre was stricken IN
Cologne, while he was making 9
trip, incognito. through Germany
Although he was aware Of the Smys-
teriousness of his illness, he battled
gamely to regain his health.
The news of the death Of Lord
Northcliffe did not come as surprise
for during the past several weeks the
bulletins issued by his physicians, al
though sliillfully worded, had failed to
hold out hope for his recovery. Never
theless his passing has caused univer-
sal sorrow and messages Of sympathy
have poured in to his widow all day
long from all parts Of the world.
Viscount Northchffe, the son OF an
Irish barrister, became an editor at IL
years, owner and publisher of The
London Times and Daily Mail, the
moulder of public opinion, man of
powerful influences in the making and
unmaking of British csbinets and, who
with David Lloyd George. cor 'ributed
in great measure. to arousing Eng
land to more vigorous action in the
war;
He was created baron of the Isle of
Thanet in 1905 and made a viscount IN
1917 after he had served with distinc-
ton as head of the British mission to
the United States to consolidate British
interests here during the war.
To Viscount Northcliffe is ascribed
TIE arousing of the British public to
knowledge of the fact that the British
army in France was insuffcientiy
equipped with high explosive shells,
tl.at British guns on the French front
V ere short Of ammunition and that
lord Kitchener, then secretary of state
for war, was sending the British gun
ners shrapncl while Sir John French
was commander, was appealing for the
same kind of high explosives that Ger
many was hurling over the lines IN
vast quantities.
This exposure has. been characteriz-
ed rs one of the outstanding Journals
tic feats of the war. 1t resulted in the
appointment of David Lloyd George as
the first British minister of munitions
and put him on. the road to become
prime minister. 49,, o.
Startling War Exposure:
Owing, it is said, to the rigid CEN
sorship which the then Baron North
clifre bitterly assailed, the British peo-
ple knew little about the conduct of the
war at that time. They were told or
the victories and advances, but it is
claimed that the disasters, and defeats
were not fully revealed. Official Eng
land is said TO have known for months
that the wrong kind Of shells were be-
ing furnished. lord Northcliffe knew
these conditions because he had visited
the front on several occasions. He sent
the military correspondent OF The
London Times, Colonel Repington, to
France, and Repington sent and The
Times published a dispatch exposing
the situation and attributing the fail
ure of military operations and heavy
casualty lis1s to a deficiency in shells.
This was followed by an editorial
criticism of Lord Kitchener who up to
that time had been regarded as Eng
lands greatest war genius. The reve-
lations and criticisms shocked England
into quick action. Mr.. Lloyd George
appealed tO the British worRmen 70
back up the British army and England
became a gast shop for the manufac-
ture of guns and ammunition. Mean
time Northcliffe was denounced on all
sides by the British press, his news
papers publicly burned in the streets
and his life is SAID to have been
threateled.
Throieh his newspapers and periodi-
Gals. I0rd Northcliffe had demanded q
more vigorous prosecution of the war
He attacked the government for Its
failue in the Gallipolli campaign and
in. Aesopotamia. He demanded thai
concription be put into. effect. Next
heEurned his journalistic guns upor
.prmier II. II. Asquith, denounc-
ed the general war committee as
.bvn meeting" and demanded com
net war cabinet. He supported Lloyt
George in a demand for 4 small ant
fficient cabinet of which ASquiti
should not be a member. Mr.. Asquitf
resigned and Lloyd George succeedet
him.
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