Airman Who Preferred Death to Captivity
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M!I.Y SKETCH, THUP~D.l Y, lU.Y 6, 1915, Digitised by the Library Services, University of Pretoria, 2015. GE MANS POISONED BY .THEIR OWN. GAS FUMES. --.! GUARANTEED DAILY NETr SALE MORE THAN 1,000,000 COPIES. No. 1,921. LQXDOX, THURSDAY, l\IAY 6, 1915. £Registered as a Newspaper.] o:NE HALFPENNY. II AIRMAN WHO PREFERRED DEATH TO CAPTIVITY. Lea-ving the main entranc~ to Parnham House. The young widow at the graYeside of her gallant husband. Crossing- the bridge. Close by is the site on which the dead airman hoped to build his house. :i\Iembers of the Royal Flying Corps carried the ~offin. Second Lieutenant :\"\'. B. R. Rhodes l\loorhouse, of the Royal Flying Corps, who was killed on active service, was buried yesterday in Parnham Park, the property of his father. The young officer, who was only recently married, was laid to rest on the site he had chosen for his new home. His death was an heroic act of sacrifice. \Vounded three times he might ha, e reco,·ered, but he spent his failing strength in reaching the French lines rather than be captured by tlle enemy.-(Dail!l Sl·etch Photographs.) THURSDAY, MAY &, 1915. Page 2.-D.ULY SRETCn. Digitised by the Library Services, University of Pretoria, 2015. ·ON A WARSHIP IN ACTION IN THE DARDANELLES. WOMEN'S SUCCESS IN SVEN HEDIN, QUITTER. INDUSTRY. A Man With A Great Name Watching The Work Of The Guns top to Y Battery,'' "F()retop to X Bat~ry,'' from To the three sailors. How They Have Respopded Becomes A Tool Of Germany. From The Foretop. The enemy's fire is concentrated on the destroyer, ' A J whose movements are interesting and instructive The Country I ppea • KAISER WORSHIP. DESTROYER'S GABY GLIDE. to watch. She is \ ·rithing about on all sides, as - if she had a bad pain inside her, at other times THE !JAN WHO HANG~ BACK. - Reconnoitring The Straits With :~:n;:n~~r~:e/ou irresistibly of one of Gaby's The appeal now being made to men is "Folio~ Goes To " Investigate,'' But Cringes Shells Droppt·ng All Around. Then it dawns on you that she is engaged in your comrades"; the appeal made to ~omen . IS When He Gets There. putting the enemy off their aim. '' Take the place of the men and keep m~ustry What is happening in Germany? What are (By E. Ashmead Bartlett.) One moment. ~he is steaming slowly ahead and going." Within a period of a week or two_ DO,O?O the people there doing? What is life like behind EASTERN :MEDITERRANEAN, April. a shell drops astern of her, and she shoots off at 1-v:omen ha,-e given in their names for a register m that black wavy line which marks the maps the rh h. f t f th d full speed towards the Asiatic coast, when ano. ther order that thev may be employed in fields of en your s 1p orms par o e squa ron d · f t ·h· b d h · d · w newspapers show us day after day? ·h· h ·. ff d . rops ID ron' \\ lC sen s er scootmg to"ar s ~activity t h. ·h they have hitherto been "IC lS o uty, you he at anchor off Tenedos, the European. 0 " lC Sven Hedin IS an explorer-a tra\·eller, rather. and have little to do except to watch the aero- She _is no sooner o\·er there than a batte;y on strangers. He is a Swede, and therefore a neutral. planes soaring upwards from the aerodrome, and, that side drops_ .::ome quite close, whereupon she What a great re\·oluhon this IS l And "e have When the war broke out he saw a rhance. He th d" · h S . h' h turns suddenly m her own length, and dashes back the word of the Premier that the women have been would go to the war and tell the world about it. · en .Isappe~rmg towards t e traits, w IC are towards us, wh~ch brings the enemy's fire just a great success in armament factories; that there He made his arrangements. The German Staff only eight miles away. ahea~ of our slup. is a \·ery important work that they are performing gave him permission, as they have given permission I th di t · t th hull d This sends her !'hatght ahead agam and so on . n e s ance you can. JUS ~ee e s an ~rom side to side. up and down, twisti~g and turn~ With great skill. In. other ~ndustnes the wo~en to scores of Americans, to go to the front. But the smoke of the battleships whiCh are on patrol! mg, dancing about like a mad Dervish. have been taken on ID considerable numbers With there was a fatal difference. The Kaiser himself duty, and you wonder whether they are shelling! SHE GOES ON ALONE the best results. sianed Sveu. Hedin's passport, and Sven Hedin the enemy or not, because the sound of the guns . ... • . The women have thus shown a noble patnohsm b:rtered his manhood for the concession. A strong _1_ • • • • • . All th1s hme our 6m. guns are blazmg away m response to the Government's appeal. and enough man to have demanded that he should go M ld om t ravt::Jli m this d1rect10n. Othermse you I at both shores, the gunners firing at the flashes thro h th · t· f ·11 be ..1 1" . f h , . ug eu ac wn 1arge masses o men WI and see for himself, he took the other way• uo tttle except to try to find somethmg to read o ~ e en~my s guns, as 1t IS difficult to piCk up , . bl f . then locatwn from the foretop. avai 1a e or service. In the language of those American journalists who, .cr something to wnte about. The Prince- of Wales, astern of us, has also come A mu_ch larger ~umber of m€n will thus be free one can confidently predict, will hesitate to reeog Then, one evening, it is your turn for patrol, and into action, and fire~ some rapid salv.oes, which to conslder the part they _shall play. ~1~. Coulson nise him as a confrere. he "q1,1itted "-gave up you know that for the next forty-eight hours some- cause a terrible disturbance to somebody's Kernaha_l?-• the famou~ _wnter! who ~as _given valu- thin excitin rna ba n property, even if they miss the Turkish guns. able sen~ce as a re9rmtm~ office~, will discuss these without a fight g g Y ppe · . We have now almost reached the point where !llatters m a ~pecial article wntten for the. next A MAN OF NO ADVI!NTUR.S, Suddenly someo~~ rushes up the compamo~ our instructions have told us to stop, and let the Issue ~f the Ill~tStrated Sttnda~ !feral~: The h,~le of ladder, and says, Have you heard the news? destroyer go on alone, whilst we afford her what Mr. Kernahan s powerful article will be The First he allowed himself to be led about by the •• What news1" we ask, listlessly. "To-morrow we protection we can. Man Who Hangs Back." German officer appointed to show him-and not t.o an~ t.o enter the Dardanelles, and go as far as the She goes on some little distance, with shells show him-the war, and then, when challenged edge of the minefield, to oover a. destroyer, which is dropping all around her. but is in luck and is not BELLOC'S CONTRIIJUTION. on his facts, he scurries to his hole and s.a~s: to make a reconnaissance." hit. Then, having apparentiy accomplished her ~1r. Hilaire Belloc, the famous strategist, con "Please I didn't see that. I am merely wntmg Imm_ediately, as if by magic, the weary, bored ' mission, she turns and dashes past us down the tributes a striking article on "War's Alarms: about what I saw. I didn't see any atrocities. No, look d1sappea.rs, and everyone springs to life. You IStraits. Exaggerat€d Hopes and Fears." ..... please don't think. I'm \Hiting ab<?ut the .. war. I wo1:1ld hardly know you \yere on the same ship, and This brings the enemy's guns directly on us, Mr. Jerome K. Jerome's remarkable series of don't know anythmg about Lo~va1_n. or 1:pre.s. or amidst the same oompamons. and the shells scream overhead. You imagine that articles in the Illmtrated Sunday Herald have Termonde. I'm just a 'umble md1ndual wntmg When I awoke on the following morning. I ex- each is coming direct into the foretop, but they attracted wide attention throughout the United about what I saw from a luxuriou motor-car when pected t.o find a. scene of. ~ustle, excitement, and miss and either burst short or in the water beyond. Kingdom. Mr. Jerome's article next Sunday will I was not dining with the Kaiser.'' apparent confusiOn prevallmg everywhere. But Then we slowly and majestically turn under a again be a very ngorous contribution. " Censuring Yet after be has declared a. dozen times over not at. all. desultory fire, and follow her down to the entrance. the Censor: England's Friction and Confusion" that he knows nothing at all. abou,~ the w~r, J;Le At eight a.m. the band struck up •' God Save the The enemy's aim is ,·erv bad, some of their shells will be the title.