The Cordova daily times., 1922-08-14
Lord N0rthcLife NO More
 Famous Publisher Dies
 F0ll0Wing Long Illness

| Northcliffe, noted English publicist, died here today after long illness. The immediate cause of death was i suppuration followed by acute blood poisoning. The event has produced a i profound impression among English editors.
 Born in Chapelizod, Ireland, July 15, | 1865, Alfred Charles William Harms worth, Viscount Northcliffe, the son of an Irish barrister, became ar editor i at seventeen years of age, owner and ! publisher of the London Times and Daily Mail, the moulder of public opinion, man of powerful influence in the making and unmakipg of Brit iSh cabinets, and with David Lloyd George, contributed in a great meaas- ure to arousing England to mere wig orous action in the war. Starting his career as a subordinate editor in a publishing house writing answers to correspondents, he later embarked upon newspaper career with the pub lication of a weekly magazine called Answers" Succeeding in this and other ventures, he eventually founded the London Daily Mail, the first Lon don morning paper to sell for half a penny. He is estimated to have been the owner of some SO periodicals hay ing circulation of 20,O00,000 copies.
 He was created Baron of the Isle of Thanet in 1905 and made a Viscount in 1917 after he had served with dis tinction as head of the British Mission to the United States to consolidate British interests here during the war.
 To Viscount Northcliffe is ascribed the arousing of the British public to knowledge of the fact that the Brit ish army in France was insufficiently equipped with high explosive shells, that British guns on the French f1Cnt were short of ammunition and that Lord Kitchener, then Secretary of State for War was sending the Brit ish gunners shrapnel, while Sir John French, as commander was appealing for the same kind of high explosives that Germany was hurling over the lines in vast quantities.
 This exposure has been character ized as one of the outstanding journal istic feats of the war. It 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.
 Owing, it is said, to the rigid censor. ship which the then Baron Northcliffe bitterly assailed, the British people knew little about the conduct of the war at that time. They were told of the victorious ad- vances, but it is claimed that fully revealed Official England is said to have known for months that the wrong kind Of shells were being furn- ished Lord Northcliffe knew these conditions because he had visited the front on several occasions He sent the military correspondent of the Lon don Times, Colonel Repingtion, to France, and Repington sent and the Times published a despatch exposing the situation and attributing the fail ure of military operations and heavy casualty lists 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 revel- ations and criticism shocked England into quick action. MT. Lloyd George appealed to the British workmen to back up the British army and England became vast shop for the manufac- ture of guns and ammunition. Mean time Lord Northcliffe was denounced on all sides by the British press, his newspapers publicly burned in the streets and his life is said to have been threatened.
 Through his newspapers and peri odicals, Lord Northcliffe had demand ed a more vigorous prosecution of the war. He attacked the government for it's failure in the Gallipoli campaign and in Mesopotamia. He demanded that conscription be put into effect. Next he turned his journalistic guns upon Premier H. H. Asquith, de- nounced the General War committee