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M. P. WHISKY.
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SOMETHING WRONG
THE SUBMARINE!'
WITH
A FACT.
[DY" JACK "STAFF:}
This is no fanciful narrative, some thing imagined in order to give scope for Realism to paint a thrilling picture with broad sweeps of a lurid brush.
Quite the contrary, it is the story of those rare, very rare, victories which a man obtains over an apparently in evitable fate, of courage put to the supreme test and winning triumphantly through.
The facts of it are of such compelling interest that they would lose by being over-embroidered with words, wherefore the tale shall be told in a simple, straight forward way, as all really great stories
should be.
GAS GANGRENE. ONE OF THE SOLDIER'S WORST ENEMIES.
Gangrene and tetanus are two diseases which will require all the research of pathologists and the skill-of-surgeons, for, although the practice of removing gangrenous extremities may be traced back to Hippocratic surgery, these dis- eases before the war were rare and, on the curative side, little anderstood. To-day, in the Pathological Laboratory at Manchester University and in other laboratories in the country, important research work is being done in connection with these parasitic diseases assistance is being given by the army authorities, and special tetanus officers have been appointed to the staffs of the principal military hospitals.
PEACE MEETING SCENES.
Everyone inside appeared to join in the general babel, for the meeting was fur CARDIFF HALL STORMED. from unanimous. The struggle to hold the doors was the most disturbing element Citizens of the metropolis of Wales have of all, and it was well past three o'clock given their verdict on the subject of pre-when Mr. Winstone gave in and Mr. J. A body called the NH. Thomas essayou to make a speech. mature pedde. tional Council for Civil Liberties arrang För ten minutes he endeavoured to speak, Stanton is com ed to hold a conference" for South Wales and then rose the cry,
at Cardiff on ing! Mr. Winstone, who unsuccessful- and Monmouthshire" November 11th, under the chairmanship ly contested Murthys against Mr. Stan- of Mr. Janks Winstone, president of the ton, fixed his eyes upon the battling crowd The at the door, where, fighting and strug- South Wales Miners' Federation. conference was stopped by a counter-gling, the burly form of his opponent Was was seen-supported by a host of hackers demonstration, and Mr. Winstone hooted out of Cardiff by a crowd that forcing a way into the assembly. pelted him with mud.
BRILLIANT BRITISH COUP,
NATURE AND TREATMENT. “Gas gangreno" and tetanus have claimed many victims in the present war. The bullet and the shells are not the only enemies that our soldiers have to face in the field, says a writer in an English
There are paper.
other and more insidious and treacherous enemies at work in the form of micro-organisms or germs, which are waiting to enter and infect
Others who shared in the retreat were Over the sents name the attacking force, a vound and to add to the suffering of wounded soldiers. The clean penetration Mr. F. W. Jowett, M.P, Mr. JH and in the general confusion many of the of the tesh by a bullet and even the more Thomas, M.P., Mrs. Swanwick, Mr. Ram- delegates escaped by a back door. Pro- violent action of a fragment of shell de say MacDonald, M.P., and the Rev. Dr. minent in the storming party was an ex- Some damage was done soldier who lost an arm at Hooge, and not, in themacives, cause great anxiety to Walter Walsh. the surgeon, or place in serious danger to the Cory Hall, where the conference the use he made of his one arm must have (except where the penetration is in a vital was to have been held, and free fights caused many of the delegates to be thank- part) the life of the soldier,
took place during the storming sud cap ful that there were not two of them. The disturbing feature of this war 1sture of the building by the opposition. Tables and seats were overturned, and as Something had gone wrong with the submarine, and, losing ber stability, the that some wounds are "septio," and the Mr. Winstone sincerely thanked the police the incoming crowd advanced so the dele. sank swiftly to the bottom, a broken and soldier is suffering in greater or less for the protection they afforded him gates were pressed out by way of a side helpless thing. Her steel-nerved crow had degree in consequence of the presence of throughout his rough passage to the rail- door. Mr. Thomas suggested converting various gorms which cause, among other way station. Without that protection he the conference into a triangular debate, quickly been aware of disaster. With
suppuration,
blood would probably have suffered severely at between Mr. Stanton, Me. Tupper, and things,
general then thought and action were simultane poisoning, spreading inflammation, gas the hands of the indignant citizens. As himself-the rest of the platform party Ous. Only seconds were left them for gangrene, malignant oedema, and tetanus, it was, in one ugly rush ho was forced having vanished but there was no desire escape, and they wasted none of these pre-all complicating the course of the injury, down on to one knee, and there were for "argaing the point," and, having cious jewels of time in aimless furry making the process of healing slower, shouts of Throw him in the river." By obtained full possession of the hall, the The coaning tower batch was forced open, often meaning the sacrifice of a limb and a desperate effort the police surrounded demonstrators hung up placards of a Mr. Winstone and two of his friends and Cardiff newspaper, bearing the words, the commanding officer stationed himself sometimes ending fatally.
prevented the suggestion being adopted. Brilliant British Coup, declared the at the foot of it, one by one the crew' spreng-up the ladder and shot safely to
It was fortunate for the other members Cory Hall proceedings closed, rejoined the surface. They were driven through
of the retreating parts that they were the procession, and marched to Cathays the water like bolts from a catapult by
able to disappear during the mobbing of Park, where a huge crowd gathered.
The general cry was, Mr. Winstone is a well-known figure in Mr. Winstone,
Down with Cardiff, where his federation holds its the force of air in the boat.
A
Where is MacDonald
Mr. MacDonald, however, was deliberations. Immediately he was seen him" hurrying off with Mr. Jowett down Edemerging from the side door a consider- able crowd surged round him, shouting, Down with Winstone" "Down with Haring ousted the sponkers and déle ward-street, a by-turning, gates from the Cory Hall, the victors pro-Germans and strike agitators marched to Cathays Park, and held a Two of his colleagues walked one on each great patriotic demonstration, a resolu side of him, and there were several police- tion protesting against all agitation in men present. But before ho had proceed- peace ed far a rush on the part of the crowd The forced him down on to one knee. favour of premature and false being enthusiastically carried.
police succeeded in protecting-him from. Although the time fixed for holding the violence during the whole of a walk of By gangrene one understands the death conference was 2.30, a crowd began to about a mile to the Great Western Buil- At the station-approach or mortification of a particular part of gather outside Cory Hall soon after one mud, tomatoes, and other missiles were the bady caused by interference with local o'clock. Superintendent Davies was pre-mu nutrition. Generally, we may say that sent with a strong force of police, and hurled at him, his two friends being more the disease is produced by any agency military police were stationed at intervals bespattered than he was himself. Finally in the thoroughfares in the vicinity. the station gabes were closed by railway which destroys the vitality of a portion. of one's body and leads to the death of Delegates began to arrive, and at two officials. Asked if he would like to make that portion. Gangrene appears in two o'clock the main doors were thrown open a statement, Mr. Winstone reped, forms. There is what is known as dry
card was rigidly excluded. Just before gangrene, or mummification, and moist Anyone unable to produce a "credential
bwelve months from now that will be gangrene. Dry gangrene occurs in super-3.30 the delegates began singing a well known Socialist song with the refrain:- cial parts of the body, and is dry
proved up to the hilt." In spite of the owing to the evaporation of the fluids
Then raise the scarlet banner high, of the dead tissues. Dry gangrene, then, Beneath its shade we'll live and die; closing of the gates, a crowd reached the is due to a defect in the arterial supply, Let cowards cringe and traitors sneer, platform, and continued the "booing
and upbraiding which had been continu- We'll keep the red flag flying here.
Mr. and is most common in the extremities,
This was too much for a member of the ous from the hall to the station. especially the feet. Its immediate eause is arrest or impairment of the supply of crowd outside, who rushed up the hull Winstone and his friends boarded an up Who train, and the police guarded the com- the blood to the affected part. This may steps and addressed the throng, be produced either by direct mechanical are the cowards and traitors?" he asked.partment until the train steamed out, to violence which crushes a tissue, or by The cringing cowards and sneering the accompaniment of hostile demonstra-
What right tions from those on the platform.
HOW THE TROUBLE AROSE, When it became known that the Council or, again, by severe septic inflammation, have they to come uninvited to Cardif to discuss peace terms? These cowariis
was to confer in usually following injury or attacking a extreme heat (burn) or cold (frostbite), traitors are in this ads wound. A common farm of gangrene is will not fight, but they let my son and for Civil Liberties
The agenda contained four that produced by frostbite. A sufficient your sons fight for them, and they talk Cardiff, efforts were made to prevent the
of peace when they know there is no peace assembly,
Mr. Thomas was to move degree of cold will cause the toes or Engers to become mummified and die.
until we have secured the victory. These resolutions.
Maladmini- Bometimes gangrene is produced by the people are members of the Independentore, ngainat Industrial Conscription, thickening of the arteries of the leg.
Labour party, No-Conscription Fellow the Rev. Dr. Walsh one on ship, and Union of Democratic Control--
Once disaster almost supervened: man's clothing caught some projecting machinery and a block in the tower sermi- ed imminent. In a twinkling the clothes were torn free and their wearer floated off into safety. Last of all the command- ing oflicer leaped up the ladder and tol lowed his men. All this occurred in a few seconds, and the situation of the crew struggling for sweet life through the downpouring water may be more easily pictured by the imagination than de- scribed in words,
Of the crew all escaped save one. He was shut up in the engine-room aetern and could not get out of it in time to join his messmates in their thrilling dash up the conning-tower. Immured within steel walls, nothing apparently remained for him but to stay where he was and die a slow and awful death. But he was not of the kind who give in easily, and be refused to accept as hopeless a position he tried which looked desperately so. to open the hatch overhead. It would
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Then he tried again, exerting every ounce of strength he possessed, and still the hatch did not yield. There was sixty feet of water above it, and against the pressure of this dead weight the puny strength of one man was as caught Aa section of the aide-plating of the boat. What was to be done? It seemed as a
though the steel-walled compartment were destined to be his cuffia and euch a thing as escape from it hopeless. Fat, terrible though his plight was, the man did not Loso neart. With a coolness and self possession that was marvellous consider ing the circumstances, he sat down and calmly thought the situation over.
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FIGHT FOR THE HALL.
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Mr. MacDonald another on- Civil Liberty," and Mrs. Swanwick the fourth, calling for Peace negotiations" It was this last proposal that created the The Home Secretary most indignation.
was appealed to to stop the meeting, and, in his reply. Mr. Samuel wrote to Mr.
J. Herbert Cory, M.P.: "I have only meeting if it is anticipated that grave disorder will result. There appears to be no such suggestion in the present case. " It was then that a counter-demonstra
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sepsie is that known as gas gangrene. they have come here to talk anti-British Shall Here am I he reasoned, "shut up This disease is caused by the presence sentiment. Shell we permit itî
wound of bacilli classed as we force our way in and make our voices in the compartment with only enough air in &
If I cannot anaerobic" because they are able to live heard? to last me a certain time.
They exist The response was immediate, and about get out of it before the air becomes ex-in the absence of oxygen. hausted I shall die from suffocation, and (like the tetanus bacillus) in cultivated thirty mes rushed up the steps.
soil, and in the intensively cultivated were violent scenes when they came into I'm not going to do that if I can help helds of Northern France and Flanders collision with the stewards and door authority to prohibit the holding of a it. How can I get out?' After turning this question uver in his mind for a few the soil is greatly contaminated by them.keepers, and they were unable to force gas gangrene the putrefactive an entrance to the hall. They sang Gor minutes he hit upon an answer to it. If n I let water into the compartment, that organisms present (they are incapable of Bave the King" and "Rule, Britannia," should equalise the pressure and enable living in other than dead tissue) produce and all efforts to push them down the tion was organised, Captain Atherley me to open the hatch," he argued. "Ball gas bubbles among the tissues, and steps were futile
Mr. Bubb, of the Anti-Socialist Uhion, Jones, of the British Empire Union, and Mr. Victor Fisher, of the British Better be drowned these bubbles tend to enlarge and increase may be drowned. doing something than suffocated doing unless atops are taken at an early stage next addressed the crowd from the steps, Workers' National League, combining. nothing. Anyway, I'll try it." And be of the discase to check the invasion. Arging that they should send to their
soldier may be hit by # ricochetting lade in the trenches a message of patriot A great indoor meeting to protest did.
bullet bullet that first strikes the iam, a message that they did their best against faise peace agitators" was held Opening the valve he let the sex pour ground and then bounds forward into to oppose the enemy in their midst in and an open-air demonstration. into the compartment. Then, standing the flesh of its victim-which has been
Cardiff. As a Welshman he appealed to Procession was to have passed Cory Hall upright boncath the hatch, he quietly said to carry the gangrenous germ. Welshmen to show their opposition to singing the National Anthem, but, after receipt of the Home Secretary's letter the More recruits police insisted that it should not go awaited the result of his intelligently hold Another common cause of the introduc- this peace conference. action; and that period of waiting was a tion of the germ is the presence in came from the crowd, and in a melée at fearful ordeal for him The inkaping wound of an infinitesimal portion of the top of the steps fists and sticks were within a quarter of a mile of the hall. water circled about his feet, then climbed earth-stained clothing, or, as often hap freely used, and the smashing of glass To that the organisers agreed, but those A glass-panelled door had taking part in the proceedings disrogard- to his knee, and so higher and higher pens, the wounded soldier, without a was heard. about his body. As the water rose it thought of the consequences, places his given way, and the attacking party were ed the request of the organisers and in- A large number of those taking part lifted the air with it until the man began soiled bands against the wound when thereby enabled to make themselves better sisted upon marching to the hall. to suffer acutely from the heavy air pres applying the first-aid dressing, and so heard by the delegates, so they sang "God
the gorm is admitted to the affected part, Save the King" again. This was resent-in the opposition to the conference were seamen, who declared there could be no sure, around him. Breathing became dif- cult, noises sang in his head, he grew Sue years ago there were pathologiste ed, and as each side obtained the upper talk of peace with those who were murdor- who contended that these bubbles did not hand so they hurled their opponents down contain gas, but air.. But this conten- the steps. Pandemonium reigned among ing their mates at sea. Not one of the re periencing the same kind of sensation tion was soon dispelled, for when the the peacemakers, for several of those solutions were put to the conference. The dizzy and had to struggle for breath, ex that a diver does when his air supply contents of these bubbles, were released inside were opposed to the resolutions on police behaved throughout with extreme by the surgeon, through the agency of a the agenda, and the uproar lasted uctil tact, and it is due to them that there were Rale, Britanno personal injuries, more serious than Desperately he fought against a creep slight penetration, one could hear the 3.30, when the strains of
abrasions and contusions-Daily Tele- graph. ing drowsiness which he knew would be hissing noise of escaping gas, and if ania" were heard.
STORM AND CAPTURE, fatal if it overcame him; sturdily he light was applied it burned with a bluish wrestled with the vertigo and symptoms flame.
It was the Forndale band that was play- of "diver's head" which were slowly. The only chance of saving a gangrenous For we say that the skinniest, scraw-
INDUSTRIAL "PATRIOTISM. niest man or woman can quickly fill though effectually, mastering even his iron limb, or indeed the life of a soldier suffering the national air, a band of Welsh out" become plump-yes, with actual will. All this time the water continued ing from gas gangrene, is to check its miners that has been awarded prizes at
procession which had been organised by German employers are getting tired of healthy fat, in sixty days and all by a creeping higher and higher up his body; destructive effects at once. Some diseases the Crystal Palace contests. It headed a new, simple, harmicas home treatment it encircled his waist, it flowed over his are checked by the free use of serum in
What the dressing stations near the battlefield the British Empire Union and the Brithe obligations which they accepted when tish Workers' National League. The their employés set out for a short war, that can't possibly hurt you, that imposes shoulders and rose to his chin no hardships, no disagreeable dicts, no made matters all the more difficult for and in the casualty clearing stations, and
The Frankfurter foolish rub ons," that can be taken him was that only a few inches of clear the incidence of disease has been by this band came to a halt outside the hall, and and are now making organized efforts. it, Welsh," was drawn across the en Zeitung, in a vigorous protest against privately in your own home without the space were leit now between the surface means reduced to a comparatively small a large banner bearing the words, "Stick to free themselves.
These are magic words in the this movement, publishes a letter in which knowledge of anyone. SARGOL tablets do of the water and the roof of the compart. figure, when one considers the enormous trance.
possibilities of infection. For gas gan Principality. A gallant Welsh officer Rhenish firm, observing that it is the work, your chemist keeps them inment, and into this momentarily decrease grene, however, there is no serum know wounded mortally in the tronch fighting adopting a practice approved by many stock.
ing area all the air within the place was
by which to check its ravages As the raised himself and urged his men on with A, 8. WATSON & Co., La.,
being compressed.
anaerobic bacilli canont live in oxygen, these very words, and they have become large industrial associations and now Vipronti DISPENDARY, THE PHARMACY,
Picture yourself standing in a room the obvious way to destroy them is to the battle-cry of the Welsh battalions at becoming general, informs its employes just above your head, with the water concesses of the wound. How this is done with the motto of the Royal Welsh Fusi- now cease unless they sign an agreement tinually lifting until it seems about to depends upon the nature of the injury, liars," Better death than dishonour." binding them for three years after the touch the ceiling, and you will under Occasionally a hole is pierced through the From behind the band came Mr. O. B. war. The men are to regard the allow stand this man's situation. Into the shoulder and is sterilised by the use of a Stanton, M.P., and Mr. E. Tupperances as loans, and to pay 5 per cent. parrowing space between water and the wick drawing peroxide of hydrogen from organiser of the National Sailors and interest on them, and they must repay Another Firemen's Union), followed by about fifty the "loans if they leave the service of ceiling he resolutely kept his head thrust, small tank above the bed. despite the stifling air pressure, until at kind of wound is sprayed with ozone, and of the processionists. Bushing under the the firm within three years after the
a third is more conveniently dealt with Stick it. Welsh" banner, Mr. Stanton conclusion of peace. The circular says: last it seemed that the disastrous end so
by means of a perforated tube fed with and Mr. Tupper led the way up the steps, In consequence of the long duration of The gallantly fought against had come.
those immediately behind them carrying the war, the enormous taxation of profits man reeled and insensibility came upon gen gas from a cylinder.
the Union Jack, the Belgian, and other which is to be expected, and the impos him, but in the last moment of fading consciousness be made one superhuman hatch had swung up when he pushed flags. The barrier of stewards inside the sibility of foreseeing the state of business effort and won the life for which he had against it and the outrush of air carried door, although about a dozen deep, was after the conclusion of peace, we are both.
unable to withstand the new onslaught. struggled so heroically. Raising both the man through the opening. arms he gave a dosperate push to the A few seconds later the crew of a patrol They gave way but rallied, and a free pelled to protect our interests. Our in- hatch overhead; then the black mantle vessel saw what they at first thought to fight ensued. Then reinforcementa rushed terests uske it necesary for us to clear up the steps and the attacking party up the situation and to take measures of precaution. The measure is based upon of unconsciousness enveloped him and he be a dead body rise alongside their boat. secured the victory. knew not whether death or he had con- This was our "hero (and he was a hero,
It was a little after 2.30 when the the principle of reciprocity. If you con- quered. But Stout Heart had won the was he not ?), living but unconscious. He speakers came on to the platform, and tinue in our service after the war, it is victory he so abundantly deserved. Help is living still and has gone back to sub-many efforts were made to address the not impossible that there may be such ed by the air pressure beneath it, the marining. Of such stuff is the British meeting, but the demonstrators outside alterations of salary as correspond with
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