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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1915-01-08, Page 54724*, "SWE1r, PIN i !!.' THE SEA IS ; PERILOUS 'TASK'. llu.nndreds et Lives Lost When the 'Runs Strike Mines Sought With Trawls.....,,. Manned by Great Britain's deep- sea fishermen, hundreds of tinyves- sels are patrolling England's coast from Harwich to the Pentland Firth. From boats in which only a few weeks ago they were catching herring and trawl fish they axe now fishing for menaces to navigation and .maintaining a daily "sweep" for mines.Day and night the drift- ers' patrol and the mine -sweeping flotilla are engaged in a work which, if it is less glorious, is not quite an unimportant part of the work of England's navy. What a perilous task the mine "sweep" is is evidenced by the number of disasters which have overtaken members of the fleet. 'The strain of the work is tremend- ous, as each man realizes that every turn of the propeller may send hum to the bottom. For mine "sweep- ing" the -vessels work in pairs, steaming abreast of each other, and dragging between them a heavy. chain that sweeps as' a trawl net along or just above the, bottom • of the sea.. When a mine is fouled it either explodes or is dragged to the surface and put out of action. The danger is in the vessels strik- ing with their hulls the mines that they are seeking to 'discover with their trawls. - Cleared of hostile Ships. Type of Zeppelin Airship from '`'hien J3onsbs were Dropped. on Innnoet nt Civilians in the "City of :M'an'e> '-A 'Deliberately. • Planned a 3 3 ataatcly ] loaned Harder by the Gcx'.iwtn aGovernntent. mines;. a morning of anxious sus- �y� ! T hate trickiness, double-dealing or pease, when it was impossible to C��1 1 IS YOUR BITN RIOT'? ,dec•eit. At the same time neither get correct information, then a bur Men nor women born in May should Heel message from the Board of marry early, their first marriage be - Trade and the sad task of going to 13IG�I FACTOR IN DETERMINING ?ag usually a mistake. the waiting wives, one after an- � O£ all it appears those barn in Considerable Interest has been other, with the news that their hs CHARACTER.. June are the most difficult to tinder- aroused by the mammoth engines of bands were among the missing, stand, In tempe'ram'ent they are destruction which are being em - then hastening over to the South hot and cold almost at the same mo- ployed by the German armies. Ter - then ds infirmary to see the wound- Great. -Many Noted Students illy Meat, They make clever actors, law rible tales have, been told of the yens, lecturers, and a certain class eleven and seventeen -inch Krupp ed, Other sad scenes have taken clams Their Belief in the of public spe,alceis—all those who, weapons; but it may be said, with place on our quay with the landing play a changing role an fife's darn-- out .depreciating the powers of the. of survivors of other mine disas Idea• ma; but if endowed with unusually enemy, that these stories are con - tees. One day the survivors of an Does the month in which one is .sarong will power, and if they can siderably exaggerated. .The exis Iceland trawler with four missing born really have an iniiuence on.the force themselves to stick to one tence of these weapons has been and later that same morning four charaetea and disposition and: sue- thing, then they generally make known to' military experts since the survivors from. a -Danish steamer, cess and happiness in life? There brilliant .successes of whatever they day the first of them. appeared on eight lost." are those who are 'inclined to scoff undertake in any sphere of life. the testing -range of its creators, The mine -sweepers will continue at the idea • but it is only necessar r Ones. says a writer in Chambers' Jour- nal. their work all through the winter to read the writings of those who .Persons born in July usually are A friend of until the 'close of the war. More hove made a �speca:al study of the restless in disposition and have a been resdnsiblehe £oxman writer, whoehass workthan 2n0 theels are h arrying on ea, each with mee itstwit ones oand to wn life and thaeir t constant longaalg for travel and and who saw these guns under test x change. They always are melting upon the Krupp ranges, maintains a crew of ten Hien. of their friends and relatives to be- homes and rarely keeping them. that neither of these terrible how- -an the. roads of the North -n come to be convinced that from those who, o,ci,ais c Inclined to speculate .and make mo- itzers has yet been used, but that Through 'Sea a continual procession of mer- GEN. BOMA A GENTLEMAN. to be experts in regard to fore- gnenerally quickly in alle aamnles, they the ten and a half centimeters, chant shipping,bringing supplies •--.- 'cilia the future bybasin their they geernexa]ly lose, whereas in business four and a quarter inch—howitzers, of all kinds to the various ports is The Character of the Premier of g p n -which Withath, as a rule, most successful. with which the German army is well c.al,cul�atio�ns on the date u o employer they equipped, have been mistaken for p With their e lo. er never passing with regularity and cam- South A:friott, one was born. 011ie. work or the putting forward the Probably no man .has made .ag there: The former. were employed North Seas seconcerned,a't is only "Let us fight like men," said closer studyof the subject than of his interests. against the Liege, Namur, and Ant- , ,�„ 1Greet soldiers, leaders in finance, weep fortifications with deadly et - mines, ...comparatively speaking, General Louis Botha, to some who Chiero, a palmist and olairvoy- and public men often are born in feat. No occasion hat. yet arisen for that constitute _.a danger to the counselled tactics of a particularly ant, who most truly remarks in his August. The main charaeterastics the use of the larger weapons, al - coastwise and oversea traffic, for savage charaoter during the Boer book, << When Were You Born? of people whose birth month this is though the eleven -in& gun was be the seas are well cleared of hostile war, when he was fighting the Brit- that hose people roan who to lehave arn are sympathy and generosity, al- ing dragged southward, and was to ships. ish, "but do nothing revengeful or Lough somewhat impetuous and. be used for the reduction of th`e for - Many of the drafters engaged in mean.” And there we have the their own ch+aaacter•s and the alas quick-tempered, They make enc- tification of Paris. Fortunately, patrol work have been tied with keynote of the &exacter of the man positions of others must certainly m,Ies througgh their frankness and however, the transport proved too wireless, so that they quickly get who fought., lost, and has since done be case armedin In thebattle of life, straigbtforw•ardness, and have a difficult, and the guns became in touch. with the au hordes when everything he could to :haat up the consequently mo e s tendency to gest terribly deceived, stranded in the country alongthe fn t.. la •yrs oro h eve wounds and restoreprosperity'than those .who know nothing of ax}d•an,the end become bitter,. severe ' River Aisne • ,layera i er.hostale vessels such things.': and over cl• ttoa1 are Bighted. The' coast is divided to Sone. Africa. . 'Chic. " sthey retired ilia Germans they 717bl: estt e into districts and Lowestoft A favorite ..tory concexnan - y alis he has seen taaa•n.y '.0 Ane born in September usually they retired until reached -the North Shields Folkestone,. isthatiterelatingv a e nano Botha wicked and broken ;lives where, ,make good literary critics, being lines where they hadbe:en placed g portskones b and is n himself nd Lord meeting had people possessed a slaght'l.non- quack to see the weak points, while upon emplacements, when it was other such fishing ledge et : their own . dispositions, at the same, tiarae they are rapid recognized that a German":. re- 'ome headquarters for the mine Just before the .finish of the Boer they mmht have been saved, and readers and endowed with wonder- treat was inevitable. These estroyers. war, when 'they discussed the pos- his knowledge he endeavors to give fu1 nnemories. In the execution of are the "Jack Johnsons," as they. Hundreds of other . fishermen, sibilities of peace, there were see,- in his book, almost anything they set their minds are .facetiously dubbed by the nembers of the Royal Naval Re- eral fruitless interviews before a January's Influence. on they generally euoceed• British soldiers. The heavy siege- erve, have been mobilized and are working basis was agreed upon. At A varied career is usually the gun of such a calibre is too expen- ow in barracks waiting to be the end of one of these discussions Persona born in January, accord- portion of persons born in October. sive an equipment: to be used ex - rafted into vessels as they are Botha got up and remarked : `'Well, ing to "Chiero," have strong men- They often are successful as speou- cept in extreme cases. The forty- issioued in the stokehold or I am afraid I really must be off." tai force, but they are, as a rule, lators or gamblers, but have little 'two centimeter howitzers, which the the deck. Not all of the fisher- ` There is no hurry, Kitchener an- generally misunderstood by others. regard for money. Large numbers same informant also saw under trial en have been able to find places swered pleasantly, "you have not a, They are thinkers, I•easoners, and of them seem to drift naturally into ,at the testing ranges, has a life of the various .branches of sea ser- train to catch, you know, ' "That should aim for some form of public the study of the law, and an it they only about thirty rounds. The shell oe. Thousands of them are out is just what I have," was Botha's life for they generally do best in generally 'make a name as lawyers, weighs nearly a ton, while the firing f work and the outlook is any- reply. Next morning the chief of such careers, . barristers, or judges, In marriages, of a round represents an expends- ing but bright for very many, staff reported a successful Boer They have strange ideas of love, however, they are seldom happy, tare of twelve hundred pounds. The `{' " raid on a British armored train on duty and social positions, and for for in affection they appear to weight of the weapon precludes its In other years at this time, this reason 'they are often consid weigh matters too much. • movement by ordinary systems of oilers of the. Deep, the magazine the Delagoa line only a few miles erectf 'the Royal National Mission to off. Botha had caught that train. with odd, and do not fit in easily Curious ,aa -e the eine actenistics of haulage, and it can be moved only with their neighbors. But theyhave those been in November, for up to over a railway. eep Sea Fishermen, says, "the At homo General Botha Lives a warm hearts, toward sufferin, and 20 years of age they usually are ex- The ehell, when fired at a verti- reat herring u dg arvest of the eastquiet life, .haeppv in nnthe society of as a rule give lrargedy ba charities, trenmely puree minded, virtuous and cal angle of sixty-five degrees, has a bean full swing. '1'0 tin action This is +also aa, charracteristic of religious, but once their nature is range of between eight and ten ay the ,quay•is lined with vessels, he is the live, vigorous, hard-hit- persons , boars in February. \V1ule aroused, they are often found to miles, attains an altitude of about it there is no alga of life on ting fighter. Perhaps the best pen- excellent in business and finance, swing in the opposite direction. three miles, and travels at a speed oarrde; also they are idle because picture of Botha in the :field is that as a, general rule, they are more The have great magnetic powers, of one thousand feet per second x�akrketse on the other side of I r, ndArthur. Lynch, 1VI:P,, who sttccess€ul tor others, and make and in danger and in sudden crises upon leaving the muzzle. Its flight the North .Sea are closed to oom a ed the Irish Brigade in the more money for others than for are cool and dete anan�ed, Many of may be followed with ease even by em, and ,because their work at Boer forces, was sentenced to themselves. They are usually high-- the best surgeons have • been been the naked eye, while wa+tli glasses a would be .a menace to them- death fax high treason, pardoned, strung, oversensitive and, while in November, the action of turning turtle, which Ives and cause serious hampering and then released, not de+monstratdye in affeetions, feel In Decetnib�er the great 'wee -kers, occnrs, when the missile has reached the rapid movements of his -lea "I rememlber," he ~says, "one in- very deeply, are born, who never seem . to tire the lugheet poipt of its trajectory, sty's ships that oaane and go con-; cadent at Vereeniging. +veiything Those born in March have -rather ,uncal they wear themselves out. is plainly- visible, Expert antiller- p g p g o tnually, was going wrong for the Boers, peculiar temperaments. They are They have enterprise in business, ists who are fully cognizant of the dent. _ inclined to brood and +be,aome mel-' but never feel them Ives conflated Krupp trend en gun e. elution, '-' - Trawlers Captured. Botha was almost the last to leave anolaol the field. ,1 came to him #or orders 3' and woiir about what their to any one line. For this reason evince alight iegard, for this iyeas„ . Pelititial Uaoanoteige. 'At the outbreak of the war the and found.fin seated on a little box future position an life may be, one often finds the amen of this per pons and emphatically state that , rtla l ea was cleared,for a time of before a ffiaex deal case, and little "This etate of wind i.s, I thank, iod change from clejrggyyamien to stook arts bark is worse than its bites," r hope you will remember, fi8111 vessel's and manyus eating a dish of Irish stew. Our de- said "Clhiero," ' `l.ar?ely* due to brokers, or frim professors to fol- The forty-two centimetre weapon C7aesar, sato talo Btatihci ,.l o• his than, ' oftheir daalalee and dread of ,bean de- lowere of trade, As a rude from is dkunte•d as the modern wonder of "that your vete is arse)✓.'' our dear- role it would have beeu well had fences: were all abandoned; at any pendent on others znore then from their intease concentration and will- the, artillery world; but,as a mat- est poesesseon," . prohtbation been maintained moment a troop of Lancers might any love of um ney." Many artists, power they are stroce•ssful in, what- ter of fact the British frge is just "Yassuh,'" said •f.;aaeater. '° ' ger than it was. There ,can :be have dashed over the bridge ; a musicians and literary people are ever they do, and they should a,1- as ewexfull equipped; and lkee in' i e , all sit doubt that n ait[tbe.rs at fishing large continent of the advancedp Ywhenhp oat a mind, iodise , but h barn in March, but they must re- ways be allowed •a free hand it the time arrives £os,• bombardingthe de same time, tante, we is have bee» • captured and guard did en er soon :afterwards. ceive encouragement to make the choosing their vocation. fortresses guarding the German in mind de fay • got tubs hero ned into ynine-l' iia vessels But Botha was entirely unruffled. a,at writ it ydon't ,pay ed �Y• � , ,. y bent of t�teinse� yes: �- frontier, at will be the Giermalras, as make it Bi, dear noihogiy lain aff+aittd ile outwardly to all appearance, $e finished his Irish stew in .:his us- Fresh Brilliance.' well as other nations who will be y are English trawlers engaged utel solid, serious health style, Strong Will Power. to ,etre 't, suh, their ordinary rou tine of fishrn and then, reaching; into hisovered The main cahal�aeteaisltic of those etmo1 ghont the oatshowan the lerp�of •thenBratalarmeeThe fieldert French istati.11er, have shown the ', _ 'it'll atm ,taken en A Circular Teter any of the fishing:p have re van, he brought out two bottles of born in April are strong .will power ,ren y the whole, Lye the most powertnl an ed blows through the note whisky and explaiieing laughingly and great o�betznaey of purp�o e.. greatest bxalltante end xe•soxtrce. On thewoe-ld, and it will be found t t Mary had They one. oce�asion a German battery was ha 1 , a l tt,ie ring, %was civ - all he had• left, o - They axe been fighters ; they have so. le ottru siege weapons will fully main- en ,by Joe, . and everywhere that urn of a large part of their fish that these werecleverly concealed that the '� fleets. Tile, vessels have sem faxed Inc. one, 'Neither Botha nor al o the gro Lost ability en the for- myself oo - Freuc rain our 'halm to pre-eminence in Mary neat that cin Wan Vire disappeared. Whether the zrlysclf was a° drinking masa;: but .I maitton of big sdl'e'nes or as, the + h battery which it was ascii- this articular field of human ". + e it io go, pPying was linable to find the ran p Ll en- :She took the ring rvrbh baaante day, e beeil ,sunk ox, captured no one took that bottle like a benediction," : heads of big.businesses, But ;they Forrleavor. have their disadvantage in life,four ontin hours this e state, of, of-. when she weztl; out to i,oa, whoi ti say. Gaston, lxilnsbv, and Hull 8e fairs ca�'tuitred, until at last a C4er-: _ _. -, _ she might, chow ct fire• elm girds .Pito Encouragement. as a rule ,they are u,nha• I in their g e been ,partrouirzrly ltearoy suf �• ply man shell buffed itself h21 the ground numbered twenty -direr,. And vellen rs through vessels striking: "Well " said in marriages. They rarely meet mem without exploding. �, the 71 e the infirm old aunt, leers of tlle:opposite .sex who trader. ?� xn.g• The officer in + Y h giLle :e sale that ring, they, es.. Thin vessels were re, ort rr ' - caz'xmttnd of the Fre•n-ch batter ns, First Nut 710 you think It Will , Thirty p desJiondantly, I ;shin t be, a nide- stazt,tl thele. Y t stop •raining? Seconal Nut -••It al. mode a } retltad�r, ex;nit►raLUltg with lestroved from Grimsby and mice toyou .much longer," on�e dug u the shell, cantly tanking one volae ---`'Bras it . last of -cin' , p ways has, at i round fioni 13ostola,, In ttlie`cases of "Oh, don't talk like that, aunt," Sincerity ie. rife keynote' of en- the great riskof't•lte slholl explodingto ciu?" Y i,wa veeels were the crews all said her nephew, reassttrin 1 sans born in May. If they love at any .minute. Ile examined t, y P a g y, the are enerous to the last de- ed. "you know that ,you will'!'' red and will consider no sacriixee flair's Prise, nasal then set his. own en- x� , :liac Geed to be Nue. ti� c•: had a sad time a fCr weeks; g ^ es your mamma sarin that I. ani. ' cortlxxr ly, i�itltin:ltall s,7 hour the t „ , , too great feox the person they care German battery g " going to marry our etster'1'. •;0 , ,:llolher--N:ta v, 1+'reddie if gut, re one fishermarls wire wrote way silenced, "' Even.a 'tltiini i fox. lj ,they arc enemies they will oci, air ! ilia siva that sister might disagreeable to .Gle•ac.tein 14'rthel she , n North Shields, when two of us, ll onaiee .ran have fight with the most determined oh- * ._ have Married someone with Braine won.,' ,carne and hors. with yea naine,sweeping trawlers were has veritorm appendix; removed only 'sonar y to rife cleatll. But ',bey s,l- e o itiioti of a colloid Iers.olt 'Fa Y y p 1 art they wciuldn t have been half so ,Itgaui. n up iliacs' simultaneatr ly by. once. '.ways fight in the open, ;for they is :seldom sought 4 second time. easy h manage as youe Freddie -4 that, , pcaatzalx^aat? 111' THE [,<lsll,Ml.:SN COMM l 14 N. 1Ner1.IIl, . arv-s1s net thy. Manner in Wide,. tleo•Kilties Survived .:?`lunch' onn the Trenches. A New York Wurld oor,eepondes: at the German frau' .in France ha interviewed Commander in - Older Von ileeriogee. "The British fire: bier? t,,,r,Gna are splendid , oldie•ee, a <p'+•r ie;teed and very tough, e,spe,c°ially esu the ;de- Pensive. .''there wsnW he an, credit in beating them it they were r," not, " he is quoted as w;aying, making it clear that he referred „a+ic to the British regulars. The'1aI.)11I e+• aeiun turning on Kitchener's r?, r n ; s:; he said srtgnilicanit�l;, ''`Yrou eannU,t im,p +, Ji ,-' d, rates-, England cannot h•t,pe, eu :cc+.ent,l�•li4}t in a few menthe 'what it t,,,k Gera British Artillery Is Superior to the many 100 years to build ;ata,'' Coming bark >,1 eke- British h r?. r Germain. h �ti- tars, he 1Arld the Fallowing anec- dote : "At one pent we used. 41, nrineen= werfer (mine thr•,zxer >t.a•u,a,et r.ne of their trenches.. These mortars go off with a frigh;tfe t rl tee, calculat- ed to shake the oodrag^e ot the stout- est. est. After the tenth ieleot 'fear nzen advaxtoed with ,, ,load "hurra'• expecting to find tile British e' gy; but—will you believe it ; . tough Scotsm :n crawi$d ewe of trenches and .actuaily att•e,mpi counter bayarnet •learge French- th. y also fight bravely. Vahane of I`:n^esun;hes. Speaking of robe tnr3er lessons of the war so far, he *lai i : "For one thing I believe that. there will be in future no great building boom rri fieri.,:; snd again, the o•Id Vheory of trenches has been sent to the ecr•ap help Formerly, you know, it was, though indispen- sable to have a :clear fighting field of at least 1,000 yards, it" passible. Now that artible.t^y plays suchan all important role, the thing• is not a wide firing laid, bat cover and protection againet artillery bre, even if you dna ee 'rn• fire for only fifty yards. Fi+€ty pus quite enough, and an infantry attack can be stop- ped in that dists,Iiee Muet IAanita,ae, Preach. "Another thing: After you have taken a village by dbrotsn the Hien must find safe cover without an in, stant's ic,ws o'.f time, an Sno+u can in- ti taxiably eacp•ect an earrz+4dtiate heavy arti3:lerg .fire- £rata the eaie+suy, ?T'h'e - Fren;ah+a'e' particu:larter good a- . finding cover Tidally. Our ane:. must Imitate eleein . "Also teleph. •es and aeroplanes are indispensable. War without them would; be ttrethiztkaable new:" Bravest Bead. d. "What is the one, bravest deed that has eome too y Beer knowledge, Your Excellency?" was, asked. "Shall I give you a bombastic an- swer 1'' he replied, good-humored- ly. '�3'ebl, then, there have been so many brave deeds: that no one o them stands, ewe pre-eminently. But in the retr,>'sperat5 ,the finest thing, to my mind, area our young troops:, charging far the first time in the face of a murd+eroue fire, singing 'Deutschland, Deutschland n•ehex apes Scute idea of tiie position of the Germane in the went ,lean be gaibe ered from the fact that the Genera had tine,to smoke and chat with me for something ;like 'tea iaoure in two drays.. "Let the people know in Atnerica that we are not barbarians; that everything' quiet and in good or der with us, and that we Jere hoot~ ing forward with calm., e.nedge confidence to v et.ory," he aa.id s eedin the azr cin orreecpo,:. - n•, RUDE GERMAN GUNS.