Cheraw chronicle. (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, April 08, 1915, Image 7
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and Grain, While Russia C
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New York.?The Herald's naval
correspondent writes:
The most striking characteristic of
this great war Is the rapidity with
which its main interest centers first
|n one part of the world and then In
another. Something like eight thousand
miles separated the scene of <
the battle off the Falkland islands and
that off the Dogger bank, while on
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on the Belgian coast qr the campaign
in Lorraine, and at another in the
Carpathians or on tr* life-and-death
struggle in Poland. This week the
nt hnth naval and military
watchers of the conflict have been directed
to the Dardanelles, the gates
of Asia. There another phase of the
world-wide war Is opening, the effect
of which no man can tell.
Each of the contending empires In
the conflict possesses an advantage
which In a measure compensate one
the other. While Britain holds the
command of the sea, Germany has the
Interior position on land, which enables
her to strike alternately heavy
blows on either front. She also has
been able, with the assistance of Austria
and Turkey, and aided by the
geographical conditions, to drive a
wedge between the communications of
her enemies which extends from the
North sea almost to the Indian ocean.
The movement in the Mediterranean
indicates the determination on the
part of the superior sea power to cut
that wedge in two.
The strategic Importance of the
straits between Europe and Asia has
been recognized from very ancient
times. It was on the Chersonese, the
i peninsula on the western side of the
straits, that the Turks got their first
looinoia in Europe. n may ?cij ?cu
be that if it now falls into the hands
of Great Britain its occupation by
British troops will mean the uprooting
of the last vestige of Ottoman rule
in the northern continent. There are
at least indications of the development
of a far-reaching operation from both
ends of the Sea of Marmora, having
for its purpose the expulsion of the
Turk from Constantinople.
There are other objects of first-class
importance to be obtained from a successful
attack on the Dardanelles. Now
that the Archangel route is closed by
ice, communication between Russia
and her allies has almost entirely
ceased. There is no outlet for the
immense supplies of corn and oil of
which they are in want and which she
could furnish, and, on the other hand,
the only source of supply of the munitions
of war, which she cannot manufacture
herself, must be brought over
the long and difficult road from Vladivostok
and Harbin. The opening of
the Dardanelles and the Bosporus
must have, therefore, an immediate
and important effect both in the western
and eastern theaters of war. Nor
can it be doubted that a substantial
I gain of this character to Germany's
foes would directly influence the na
Itions which have been for so long hesitating
about entering the war. All
the Balkan States would be affected
considerably, and while Greece could
scarcely stand still with Russia at the
gates of Constantinople, Italy might
well feel that this sharp stroke removed
the last doubt as regarding the
side with which she should be acting.
Of the operation itself, although the
Dardanelles have long been regarded
as impregnabl . it is more than
likely that as other fortresses have
failed to maintain their security
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who had been making observations o:
o report his findings to the commander
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EREAGHIN6 EFFECTS
ibns Seems to Purpose Expulsioi
?Allies in West End Need Oil
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ler War Shipments.
against'the modern materials of wai
so those in the straits will be over
whelmed by the mass of explosive*
hurled upon them from the long-rang<
artillery of the battleships of today
When the forts in the straits wer<
planned ships were dependent upoi
the wind and they carried guns whicl
could not Compare in power wltl
those mounted in the land batteries
__When Vice-Admiral-Duoltworth -tee]
a British squadron through the strata
in 1807 his vessels were assailed wit!
huge shots, some of them weighing 80(
pounds, but even these heavy missilet
did little damage. Today the Britist
ships will throw shells filled with hlgt
explosives, each more than double the
weight of the shot thrown at Vice-Ad
miral Duckworth's ships, and the de
struction wrought by such missilet
will be immeasurably greater.
Moreover, it is unnecessary for the
ships themselves to approach neai
enough to be injured by the shore bat
teries, even if the guns in these have
been somewhat augmented from Ger
man sources. It is already announced
that the forts at the mouth of the
straits, about two miles apart, have
been crumbled into atoms, and those
in the narrows, further up, can be sim
ilarly treated at ranges at which the
ships themselves will be comparative
ly immune. There remain other ob'
structions in the shape of mines in
the channel, but that these have been
located by the British submarines is
WHAT ONE SHELL DID
Few people realize what great power
there lies in the modern sheila
and explosives. This unusual picture
vividly tells what an enormous
amount of destruction a shot from one
of the French 75 mm. guns is able tc
accomplish. When this horse was
struck by the shell the force of the
shot cut the animal in two and lifted
the fore half of the carcass into the
tree.
There are 91,818 organized workers
In Missouri, of whom 3,926 are women,
certain, and their removal should be
?no difficult task. Once the passage <
clear for the ships of war, and these are
off Gallipoii, the remainder of the
business is simple.
With the numbers and composition
of the Turkish garrison in the Gallipoii
peninsula the British authorities
must be acquainted, and, the forts being
destroyed, a force of sufficient
strength doubtless will be landed, If
necessary under the fire of the guns.
The configuration of the mainland by
a narrow isthmus not four miles wide
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from the sea at either Bide, makes the
occupation and holding of it by the
stronger sea power easy. The possession
of the peninsula, as the late
admiral of the fleet, Sir Geoffrey Horn- I
by, said in 1877, when he took an :
ironclad fleet through, guarantees a
safe passage, not only for the ships of
war, but for their auxiliaries as well.
The appearance of a Franco-British
fleet off Constantinople and the consequent
wiping out of the Ottoman
navy, even with its German re-enforcfement,
will make the task of Russia at
the Bosporus end a light one. Already,
it is said, Russian forces are
assembling at Odessa and the transports
are available whenever required,
so, in the opinion of many
astute onlookers, the ultimate success
of this undertaking is scarcely in
doubt. It will be one more lesson
of the ubiquitous exercise of sea
power.
IMAGINED RAT WAS BURGLAR
' Girl Bitten by Rodent Thought Her
Cheek Punctured by Hypodermic
Needle of Night Intruder.
Lafayette, Ind.?Miss Bernice Crowden
heard a noise in her bedroom at
her home and, thinking it was a burglar,
did not move. In a few minutes'
I she felt warm breath on her face and
I was too badly frightened either to
J scream or to move. She thought that
she was about to be chloroformed and
a second later, when she felt a sharp
) sting in her cheek, she was certain
that a hypodermic needle had .been
used by a burglar. She screamed for
her brother, who rushed into the room
and found Miss Crowden's cheek
bleeding.
The cause of the wound was not
determined until a pnysicianwas
called. He declared that the young
woman had been bitten by a rat. A
5 rat, believed to have been,the one that
5 bit the young woman, was caught and
killed by her brother, Louis Crowden.
> Miss Crowden is in a serious condition
1 from the nervous shock.
IN THEi GERMAN T|g|^L
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Underground Houses in the German
Trenches In Poland.
WAVE DOES HOUSE MOVING
Huge Breaker Accomplishes Work 80
Gently Milk and Coffee Are
Not Spilled.
Los Angeles, Cal.?C. H. Jennlson
of Alamitos Bay, near Long Beach,
planned to move his home back 20
feet. Before he started a big storm
struck.
A huge breaker picked* up the house
and moved it back 20 feet, setting it
down squarely on the ground so gently
that a pall of milk and pot of coffee on
the table in the house were not spilled.
Mrs. Jennison and her two children
were not in the house at the time..
The house was placed on its new
foundations the next day.
SHOULD HE TAKE ONE DRINK?
It Will Cost Him $4,000 Placed as
Conditional Forfeit to Obtain
His Release.
Tacoma, Wash.?One drink will
cost Thomas Cannally $4,000?that is,
if he takes it. Six weeks ago Cannally
was sentenced to six months in
jail for stealing $4 while intoxicated.
After serving a month of his sentence
Cannally appealed to Police Justice
Evans to be released, offering to
deposit $4,000 In cash, to be forfeited
in case he took a drink before his
tprm tvnnld havn pxnired. Justice
Evans agreed, and placed the money
on deposit in a local bank.
The money was still in the bank
today drawing 3 per cent interest and
Cannally was occupying a seat high
on the "water wagon/
Thief-Catching a la Mode.
New York.?Pursuing a thief who
had stolen his watch, Robert Brown
ran his automobile on to the 6idewa".li
and pinned his man against a build,
ing.
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Remarkable photograph of the
lands just as the submarine flred 1
one of the photographs that won th
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United States submarine F-4.
its entire crew, and Lieut. Alfred J
GEN. SCOn CAPT
The capture of the outlaw Piute
Utah, by Brig. Gen. Hugh L. Scott \
staff Af the army. Unarmed and wi
Michle, and one private, he met the
ringleaders to surrender. In the ph
shal Nebeker, Lieutenant Colonel M
son, Hatch (Tse-Ne-Gat), Chief fos
The Future Man.
When one goes way back to th
cave man or beyond him to the tim
when man walked on all fours an
slept In a tree, and then reflects upo
what man is now, he is wont to in
agine What sort of a creature he wi
be hundreds of centuries hence. Som
of us who believe in the ascent <
man are inclined to accord to him a
angelic form and grace, as far ahea
of the present man as he is ahead (
his prehistoric progenitors.
AS THE TORPEDO WA5
German submarine U-29 made from the
Lhe torpedo that destroyed the merchant
e $500 prize offered weekly by two Londr
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s who had started an Indian upristng in
vas a feat characteristic of the chief of
th only his aid, Lieut. Col. R. E. L.
i rebellious Indians and persuaded the
otograph, left to right, are: U. S. Mar[ichie,
General Scott, Chief Old Polk, his
ey and Posey's son.
But now comes a scientist who sugle
gests that the future evolution of the
le human race may develop lips like the
d bill of a pelican. A circumstance that
n suggests this change is the use of
a- these bubbling fountains by the chilli
dren, which has a tendency to proie
duce protruding lips. What else goes
}f with these protruding lips the scienn
ist does not say, but if they add to
d his fishing efficiency he must have
)f wings for that, and wings we would
all like to have?Ohio State Journal.
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deck of the British steamship Headvessel
off the Scilly islands. This is
?n papers for the best war pictures.
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they retreated from the soil of Serbia.
BOB GORDON AND THE MACE
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"Bob" Gordon, sergeant at arms of
the house of representatives, is here
shown holding the mace of the house,
which has been sent to New York to
be repaired. The Job must be done
quickly, for congress could not assemble
if the mace were not in its place.
Got Them Mixed.
It happens that my stories are read
in the family of a well-known probate
judge up in Danbury, Conn., writes
Irvin S. Cobb. Otherwise the Judge's
household is above reproach. Not
the least important memuer ox
the family Is the queen of the kitchen,
the old colored cook, and she has her
fling at the magazine ev?>ry week as
soon as the new one arrives.
The Judge is a keen follower of all
the war stories by different writers
in the magazine, and he knew that the
old mammy had been looking over
some of the stuff herself, as she had
expressed her opinions about the Germans
and "alleys" on several occasions.
One day soon after the story of my in'terview
with Lord Kitchener was published,
the judge casually asked mammy
how the war was going along, and
f^she thought they'd ever stop fighting.
"Jedge," she said, "dat wah gonna
last jes* three years."
"How'd you find that out?" aske^
the judge.
"De king o' Europe done told Ty
| Cobb."
Making It Right.
"I am going to sell kisses at tha
church fair."
"Are you?"
"You should have said you'd buy
some."
"I could not well say that until 1
knew if they are to be your owr kisses
or are to be furnished by your cook
I don't care for confectionery."
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