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TUESDAY. JUNE 13. 191(3 PAGE SIX TIIK REVIEW: RBnWTLLE. X. C. -O 0- MODS HI liiiil HE: IB I'l ill! Of -V I 1 1 1 1 J Fight to Death With Both Sides Holding on Like Bull dogs Until the Germans Retired to Their Base. ; o How the Big British Ships Were Sent to the Bottom. Warrior Abandoned Af ter Fight to save Her. II II! IS Pfllf II; 101 IT 1 1 811 1 "Man of Iron" Won Fame by Named Secretary of State For His Daring Feats In India and "Africa In Quell ing Rebellions. A" MONO the British sailors who on their return told of the North they Wi'r0 vel'' mum auve. etui tiii vii 1 Un ttt (in ii .1iw.tI1.iw Tiller there went a shell demonstrate to their o!il enemy that ; From the , M il It 'll, 08 a duel worthy of the Nelson tradition between the invincible und a ilg German warship, the Identity of .which Id uneertalu. "The two ships." he said, "fought like bulldogs, all guns tiring at once and most of them hitting, with such an enormous weight of metal pouring out that the duel was bound to be short It lasted lens than thirty minutes. those in a position to observe reported. got one of the Iierrillnger's turrets) und wiped out u gun crew. Others were planted with equally deadly effect on the enemy, and unless the Tiger's men are greatly out In their calculations there is not much more likely to be heard of the Derrllinger. "The battle raged with tremendous violence. The air was (Hied with white w IlKN" J)arl Kitchener, British secretary of state for war,' "It was a fight to death, and both hot steel, dust and slivers. Ears were hips died. The German vessel burst deafened by the tremendous crash and Into flames and sank. Almost Imme-1 clatter. If all the opposing fortes re dlately afterward the Invincible fol- maiued as they were the result was in lowed her to the bottom. Both sank evltable. iwith their flags flying. The water was ( "The battle cruiser action was fought strewn with men dead and alive. But with the enemy lying t lose to neutral In the midst of the fierce fight it was , Impossible to arrest the activities for .the purpose of saving life. "The Queen Mary was In the thick- est of the fight and did heavy damage. : Danish waters off .Jutland. Everything was going well with Admiral Beaity when the ' i superdfeadnouglits came up an:! rjshed in to cut off the enemy fi'"tu Ills southern base. Ad- Bhe then became the center of the con-, ,,,,., j; .utv tiwu t drive in from verging lire of several powerful Ger man ships. She broke In two and went down. "The lot of the Indefatigable was Very similar. She was In a smashing fight at close quarters. Then the life was blown out of her. The Warrior had to be abandoned at hlli sea .after being towed for ten hours "The Warspite, which was one of the earliest vessels to return to the base, dashed between Cie Warrior and her enemies and received a salvo meant for the badly'-h!!. Warrior. She did not save the Warrior, but probably saved the Warrior's crew." Bit Shells at Short Eange. A survivor of the Warrior told this story: "We got td very close-quarters,- less than J3,000 yards, I should say. It was air weather, but misty. A westerly gale had subsided. The entire German navy seemed out against us and all ships were firing us fast as they could erve their guns. "The whole sea looked like one bloody battlefield. At such short range you could scarcely miss. Great H the iioi iheisi and either force the Ger iraiis to shelter in neutral waters or to compel I hem to accept the challenge of tl.'c heavy battleships Germans Re-enforced. "The strategy was e.v oHeiit. but It was upplicd loo late. I roin the south came re-ciii'orcenient.s which provided the explanation of the ph. inunction of the Germans accepting Admiral lieat ty's challenge. From the south camo the major portion of the German grand fleet. The Warspite got. the brunt of the first attack. It is said thai she be came isolated ironi i:er coiisoris and got surrounded by. half a dozen ships. She made a brilliant lipid She tlis- j posed of more than one of them and by clever maneuvering shout ! a clean I pair of heels.. The other supcrdrcad I naughts retired to the assistance. of the I battle cruisers, w hich were then faced Willi tile tlreatll ul ordeal ' ul' tackling I unsupported the (lower of the ttcrmnu navy. U Is tins phase ol Hie Might which will go down as o.ic ol the most gallant deedj m Itiiiidi .... ul luMory. "In naval con's tr in I ion', you choose lost his life as the armored erui.er Hampshire sauk the popular idol of the English people was taken away. Kitchener hud won his popularity by daring feats in Indiu und Africa and on the outbreak of the present war succeeded I'remier Asquith as head of und directed the affulrs of the war office in London. Kitchener made fre quent trips to the firing lines In France and was in close tout h with all mili tary operations. The Germans had been after Kitchener since the war started, and they knew thut he made frequent trips across the channel, but until the other day they always failed. The "man of iron" that exactly sums up the character and career of, T ri-l,..n .1. ......) I and possessing that virtue of virtues silence the work Lord Kitchener ac- War on Outbreak of Pres ent Struggle and Had Directsd Armies. tine to take photogf.iphs, and it wa his knowledge of photography which led yotuig Kitchener's appointment and gave hjni his chance. His Fake Prcdi;lion. furiously enough, Lord Kitchener was u fatalist und on several occasions had expressed some very strong con vlctlons as to his future. During the Soudan campaign he was once warned li"t to expose liliiwlt so recklessly to t!i" eiie:.!,v while in action. To this rcmoiiMiah o he replied: "1 .-shall nevci be killed. When my time comes 1 shall die peacefully 111 my bed." His capacity for work was umazing. ami he had no patience with a man less energetic than himself. It was char acteristic of hhu that his first question when he entered the war ollice us sec retary for war was, "is there a bed iu the building?" "No, sir," replied au ollieial. "Then get one," said Lord Kitchener. Then the ofliclal knew that HUSBAND RESCUED DESPAIRING WIFE After Four Years of Discouraging Conditions, Mrs. Bollock Gave Up in Despair. Husband Came to Rescue. LIKED SINGLE SOLDIERS. 1 ... i ..,. ,i .,,.,! .t ;. .,, p. on.. Inch shells were coming at us all tue ,,. flI(. ,., .,,. ih ,,. M,mi and are. not intended to face up to a prolonged light against heavy armored time. Some smashed clean throuL'h the ship, killing every man they touch ! ed. We engaged uhlp after ship. Wei accounted for two light cruisers und a' destroyer. I "We snw the Queen -Alary- blow up; as a result of concentrated fire. It! looked as if n magazine exploded. Slie broke in two und went down like a stone. It was all over in a. couple of minutes. "Right In the hottest of the battle it was impossible to pick up men out of the water. "The Indefatigable went down much the Buuie wuy. She had given the enemy a pounding, and they-gave the same to her. Our losses on the War rior were few. We were badly holed. One of her engines was smashed, and the others stopped. "One of our ships took us Into tow and drew us out of the line - a grand bit of work In the -middle of shell lire and torpedo attacks. We should have reached the base, I think, if the sea had not gone up. We shifted ships .without any loss of life. "All we want la another ship and another 'go' at the Germans, for they are Jolly worth fighting." Describes the Battle. Another survivor tells this story of the battle: "The battle cruiser squadron was shoring through the water at twenty live knots, dcslrojcrs ami huht ciuls ers in their appointed places. The seu .was as smooth as a mill pond, the day .Was warm, and a slight haze l.ung over the water. For .well nigh sixteen ijjiiira the squadron steatite I m n. '. t)!l. tlllMl the destroyer sen e.i up., in. pu-s ence of enemy erat-t --snial; t rai t, but significant perhaps t,f the pre.-t'nce of bigger vessels. A s:nurl little dest rover action was iiegiin. A lig'u nuLser dashed up to us.i.t. ami soon the first phase of the. battle was In full swing. "Later the bailie ei.-tu.sv-.-s joined, and when the enemy a.pp ;;ted iili the full strength of ins battle ciuim-i- squadron -All the elements oi en eve.ily contested battle were present. "But the nitt'i.ie-s with which the Germans -accepted- the challenge must have set Admiral- I'.eatty to thinking bard. Thtf Germans uiul from their point of view It i;i.:y be sound enough tactics not to filit unless they are there lu superior fort e- do not fight as the British do. always and at any cost. For the first time sim e the war began they stood up to L. aity and his ships, j sud from the impressions gathered from Beatty'a men who have come through the tight the Germans suffered heavily during that phase. "It was u 'running- fight The Lion, as on tin- Memorable day off Dogger ban!;, led t'.w line, followed 'by the Ti ger. i:t ill jicrformed marvels of speed, and there bhould be further honors for ti.e engine room staffs. Opinwlte them lit 1 -i.; range was, among others, an old : Hit my in the Derrfliuger. In the lK)gger bank Oght the Derrfliuger sent a shell Into the wardroom of the Tiger. "It was therefore with jiecullar relish pat the crew of the Tiger proceeded to , I and heavily gunned sliips Admiral lleatty knew the risks lie was to run, but h( had to hold the enemy at all costs, lie knew the grand Meet was not Mar .behind, and he knew what It meant if he could hold on until Vice Admiral Sir.Iohn .Jeillcoe arrht-tl, What l.ieatt.v and his men went through during those hours ot miei'no no one but themselves can ever realize. Strong men., physically strong and strong of nerves, men v. ho had .looked 'death In the face in naval ac tions before, shuddered us they thought of It. '"It was like forty thunderstorms rolled Into one,' said one of them. "'It was as If all the ammunition la Great Britain and Germany had been let off In one-half hour,' said another. '"It wus hell,' was the commonest description of it." Kept Record of Battle. A correspondent of the Cilusgow Herald writes: I "One man of the fleet who was In the thick of It possesses an odd relic of the light of his own making a time table of the battle giving the hours of the different occurrences and written on the back of a treasury note. "It had all the appearau-e ..t one of those elaborate lime.-tn-Mes that sport ing -writers give at the end of their de scription of some important game, when a dashing three-quarter goes through to score a brilliant 'try' which makes the grand stand rise as one man "At present .and doubtless hereafter that treasury note will not be exchang ed. It is not u scrap of paper with certain monetary vulue, but a histori cal document. "It was soon after 3 o'clock that the battle .-opened at a distance of 7.000 to 11,000 yards. The German boats, hurry ing along at full speed, were mere blots on the surface, moving under their canopy of smoke. Although In his sixty-sixth year Lord Kitchener had the vigor of a man ten years young er. He was straight as a dart, stood - six feet two inches, his black hair only slightly tinged with gray, ills penetrating gray eyes and stern, cold expression were the terror of army loafers who either "get on or get out!" Lord Kitchener was a bache lor. Society he detested. For wo men ho hail no time. He dedi cated himself to his work and did not believe in the domestic joys for the soldier. All his of ficers when he commanded the army In Kgypt had to be bache lors. He did not want to have men around him sighing for home and wife and children. Those things were not for him. rS $ I'liotos by American Press Assoclatlun EARL KITCHENER AND THE CRUISER HAMPSHIRE, compllshed stamps him as one of the greatest soldiers and admlnlstratoru Britain has ever produced.-. - Work, not talk, was his motto. Take the Hocr wur, for Instance. Kitchener went to South Africa in the black days, when Great Britain hud suffered a succession of defeats Stonnberg, Magersfonteln, C'olenso and British military supremacy was In grave danger. And how the "geutle men" of the ranks and others hated his methods! Soon letters were arriv ing In -England complaining of his ar bitrary w ays. He was '-'making him-1 self hatetl everywhere," "insulting' voluntary otllcers of noble lilrth dal ly," "ruining the organization" ami so on. But never a word from Kitchener until he broke the silence with the lu- " Anininrlliii ItrUlul, I ... I i 1. 1 i.e. u-hlol. n..r.. ..v.v...i..t,..i t. iti. ti... i,i.. ,.i.i,tA. ctuii.: ilLsputcli, "St-ml me -more men." I injuadron in the first phase of the tight none took a more prominent part than the recently completed Warspite. She did not have the same disadvantage as the battle cruisers In the face of the enemy's battle licet, and she took her full share and more In light It is said that to her Is due the destruction of at least two German vesstls. The meas ure of protection which she and her three consorts endeavored to afford our battle cruisers by tackling as many German battleships as would face them may account In some measure for the extraordinarily slight damage sustain ed by those of the battle cruisers which came out of the action. "To another of the battleships, un derstood to be the Valiant, la ascribed the sinking of an enemy submarine. The U-boat apjeared almost across the track of the battleship ufter having Bred without -ffect at another British vessel. The Valiant, racing at full Ieed. rammed the submarine, which auk at once." And with these he won through; "1 understand." a friend remarked to him as lie was about to sail for South Africa, "that you intend to re organize the transport as soon as you arrive." Takes Boer Capital. "Reorganize!" replied Kitchener, "I am going to organize it" And he did, with the result that t-he army was able to march on the Boer capital. It was a cousin of Lord Kitchener who told the tjtory of how the fuuious field marshal got his first chance. A tall, overgrown lad. nearly six feet one inch In height, he mauaged somehow to scramble into Woolwich. He was not high in the lists, and uo one thought anything about blin. After leaving Woolwich young Kitchener was gazetted to the corps of Royal engineers and appointed on the Bales tine survey because he knew how tc photograph. The authorities at that time wanted some one to go to I'ales- day or night would find Loid Kitchener at his post Dm lug the South African war he sel dom hail more than three or four hours' sleep a day. rSmg regularly at 4 or P o'cloi k in the moi u.ng ami worklna hard nntil n'ght. O.hcers knew that Kitihener alwa meant business. He hud, no use for leg. mental ornaments; pi hi deal soldier-, were what he want ed. One officer in command of a col n:nn had not been heard of for some dajs Telegrams were --cut In all di rections to find him bearing two ques tions: "What are you doing? Have j on taken anv Boers and how nian.iV- Ills grim. I.n mile humor was well l!!i -dinted by his reply on one occa ii,.ii to the war edit e authorities who wee ; .easing u certain weapon. "Ket p the mm,'' he wired. "I, can thiow stones nijself." No man had a irreater faculty for c-tln-.'iting a man's capabilities at a giant--. Men d'd the imp. ssible at a word from him "Twehe hours hi which to carry this dlspat h?" le u-:-.liked to an ollicer on one o. casiou "You must do It in six." Anil the otlicer, who had asked for twelve hours, did It In five. Time to Kitchener wus everything While engaged In building a bridge for the advance upon Pretoria the engi neering ollicer. apprehensive of danger to his--workmen, hinted his fears to Lord Kitchener, explaining that a dif ferent mode of construction -would be much safer than the one employed, which might, indeed, cost the lives of twenty to thirty men. Kitchener Us tened patiently and then asked, "How much longer would it take to do the work by this safer method?" "Not more than an hour longer, sir." "Very well, do not change the plans. You will continue the work as it Is begun." Catron, Ky. 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