HARMSWORTH'S 



UNIVERSAL ENCYCLOPEDIA 



VOLUME 5 



Drill OR DRILLING (Ger. Drillich, 

 Lat. trilix, triple-threaded). Strong 

 linen or cotton fabric used to make 

 suits for wear in the tropics. Khaki 

 cotton drill is worn by troops on 

 service in hot climates. The pat- 

 tern is a twill, often of a round, 

 screw-like diagonal, and the tightly 

 twisted warp yarn is predominant 

 upon the surface. Cotton drills are 

 employed for pocketing and fre- 

 quently for corset making, and 

 other purposes for which strong 

 stuff is required. 



Drin. Kiver of the Balkans. 

 It is formed by the union, at 

 Kula Liamu, of the White Drin, 

 rising in the Albanian Mts., and 

 the Black Drin, issuing from Lake 

 Ochrida, and flows into the Adriatic 

 below Alessio, after a course of 

 110 m. Anciently it was known as 

 the Drilo or Drilon. During the 

 Great War the gorges of the two 

 streams and of the main river were 

 traversed by the Serbians in their 

 retreat to the sea in 1915. 



Drina. River of S.E. Europe, 

 forming part of the boundary be- 

 tween Serbia and Bosnia. It rises 

 among the mountains of E. Monte- 

 negro in several headstreams, the 

 chief of which is the Tara, and 

 flows N., N.W., and then N.E. to 

 effect a junction with the Save, 58 

 m. W. of Belgrade. The principal 

 of its many affluents is the Lim. 

 Its length is 160 m. 



Drina, BATTLE OF THE. Fought 

 in Sept., 1914, between the Aus- 

 trians and the Serbians. It began 

 Sept. 8 and 9, 1914, with the Aus- 

 trian crossing of the river in their 

 second invasion of Serbia. The 

 attack developed more strongly in 

 the S. of the region bordering the 

 Drina than in the N., where the 

 Serbians were in force and threw 

 back the invaders. 



The critical fighting took place 

 among the mountains S. of the 

 Jadar. At the outset the Ser- 

 bians, under pressure of much 

 superior forces, were pushed from 

 some of their positions on the 

 Guchevo, Boranja, aad Jagodnia 

 ranges. By Sept. 11 the Austrians 

 held Shabatz, while the Sokolska 

 Planina as far as Petska was in 

 their hands. On Sept. 14 the 

 Serbians, who had been reinforced 

 from the N., attacked the Guchevo 

 heights and carried Kulishte, but, 

 fearing envelopment, retired from 

 it. Three days later they renewed 



the engagement, and drove the 

 Austrians from it to the Drina. 

 Southward, on Sept. 16, the Ser- 

 Jjians stormed the summits of the 

 'Sokolska, and drove the enemy 

 in disorder to the river. There- 

 after the struggle centred on the 

 commanding position of Matchko 

 Kamen or the Cat's Leg, which 

 was taken and retaken eight times. 

 Finally both sides, being exhausted, 

 settled down to trench warfare, and, 

 the battle of the Drina died away, 

 the advantage resting with the Ser- 

 bians. See Serbia, Conquest of. 



Drink. Drama adapted by 

 Charles Reade from Zola's L'As- 

 sommoir, and produced June 2, 

 1879, at The Princess's, where it 

 had a run of 222 performances. 

 Charles Warner (q.v.) achieved his 

 greatest success in the part of the 

 drunken workman, Coupeau. 



Drink Traffic. Name given 

 to the trade of making and selling 

 intoxicating liquors. Owing to the 

 evils caused by excessive drinking 

 this trade is subject throughout the 

 civilized worid to special control by 

 the state. See Liquor Control ; 

 Local Option ; Prohibition ; Tem- 

 perance Movement. 



Drinkwater, JOHN (b. 1882). 

 British poet and critic. He was 

 born June 1, 1882, the son of an 

 actor, and edu- 

 cated at Ox- 

 ford High 

 School. He was 

 for a time a 

 clerk in an in- 

 surance office, 

 and published 

 his first volume 

 of verse i n 

 1908. One of 

 the founders of 

 the Pilgrim 

 Players, he became manager of the 

 Repertory Theatre, Birmingham. 

 His published work includes an 

 essay on the Lyric, 1916 ; studies 

 of William Morris, 1912, and of 

 Swinburne, 1913; two plays in verse, 

 Cophetua, 1911, and Rebellion, 

 1914,and several volumes of poetry. 

 His play, Abraham Lincoln, pro- 

 duced at Birmingham in 1918, had 

 a long run at The Lyric, Hammer- 

 smith, in 1919. Later plays were 

 Oliver Cromwell and Mary Stuart. 

 Dripstone. In architecture, 

 the projecting tablet or moulding 

 placed on the crown of an arch, win- 

 dow, or doorway. See Moulding. 



John Drinkwater, 

 British poet 



Hoppt 



Driscoll, JIM (1880-1925). Pro- 

 fessional boxer. Born at Cardiff, 

 Dec. 15, 1880, he has more than 60 

 victories to his credit. He secured 

 the feather-weight championship in 

 1910, and became the winner out- 

 right of the Lonsdale belt for that 

 weight. His two defeats were by 

 Harry Mansfield in 1904 and by 

 Freddy Welsh (q.v.), to whom he 

 lost on a foul in the tenth round, 

 at Cardiff, Dec. 20, 1910. Driscoll 

 announced his retirement from 

 boxing after his drawn battle 

 with Owen Moran, Jan. 27, 1913. 

 He died Jan. 30, 1925. 



Driver. Longest club in a 

 golfer's outfit, with a wooden head 

 and almost straight face, used for 

 tee shots. The beginner should 

 learn to drive with a brassie, and 

 when he can use this club success- 

 fully, should procure a driver with 

 a similar lie and of equal length 

 to the brassie. Only when the ball 

 " sits up " well is it possible to use 

 the driver through the green. 

 See Golf. 



Driver, SAMUEL ROLLES (1846- 

 1914). British Biblical scholar. 

 Born at Southampton, Oct. 2, 1846, 

 he was edu- 

 cated at Win- 

 chester and 

 New College, 

 Oxford, where 

 he took high 

 honours. He 

 was a fellow of 

 New College, 

 1870-73 ; tutor 

 1875-83; a 

 member of the 

 O.T. Revision "*" 

 company, 1876-84 ; and Regius 

 professor of Hebrew and canon of 

 Christ Church, Oxford, from 1883 

 until his death, Feb. 26, 1914. 



One of the greatest Hebraic 

 scholars of his time, Driver colla- 

 borated with F. Brown and C. A. 

 Briggs in editing A Hebrew and 

 English Lexicon of the Old Testa- 

 ment, 1906 (based on E.Robinson's 

 translation of the work of F. H. W. 

 Gesenius). His Introduction to 

 the Literature of the Old Testa- 

 ment, 1891, aroused much con- 

 troversy, but with his other writ- 

 ings is now generally held to 

 reconcile what is known as the 

 higher criticism of the O.T. with 

 a sincere belief in its inspiration 

 and religious authority. His other 

 works include A Treatise on the 



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