Show 4 we aw 1 copyright 1915 by J W muller all ali rights right reserved A narrative fact story based authoritatively on the InCAo rable mathematics of war what can be done to oppose an invading army amy with our actual present resources in regulars trained militia untrained citizens Citizen 3 coast defenses field Artil artillery lemand and all other weapons of defense I 1 continued where ithe Is the mobile army cried the he cities send it herel cla not ell each city there was war no reply somewhere behind I 1 tin he Aili mile coast lay tile the mobile army silent the cities to sen sea they ils tuned for sounds from the sen sea that ocean that find made them rich and great land become suddenly suddenly teri ible a secret act act place where thel there blooded brooded wrath every tiny pleat great mul ti tades stirred by helpless bagne im pulse moved toward the waller fronts gazed down tile the harbors kery every umble of blasts or belly bonivy y vehicle every greit nolie noise the cities into it quick Ll listell Liste stent nl Cannon sl where Is 14 the fleet bleet the question rill tr from 0 m malue maine to florida till it loo do became one great arat clani clamor or storming ut it tit alie white alonse anlu again there wits no answer dayh before the american fleet halt aten steamed nied out of the lie ell eastern oct it end of LOUR long island sound the fall kluy gray dreadnoughts mid artnur arin imd ed cruisers each with its circling savage brood of destroyers deit unlit light A torpedo boats seagoing hospital ships and colliers coll lem one by one they hall passed into the open sui sea and vanished but though no mail know knew where it was front from its unknown place it spoke by wireless to and through to the tin tion from froin somewhere between tile vir clr ginta lnla capps and the northern end of the Balia linit hands It lands where it lay illy it had sent out its feelers the son sen toward the lie oncoming foe swift pray gray till fall skeleton fire allu control ron top were white with watching sailors sal lors anil and so HO presently lao between tween tho the enemy and the american const there lay it tin line of relays to catch tile the news and pass tt it on to 0 o the nation tint and its fleet CHAPTER it II the inevitable order to an inferior fleet OTIE till 1 I 11 I 1 I 1 hundred bundred miles of M sell nen sam said tile the news were im or ered cred by the advancing fleet it was wail it hundred times miles or steel forts and outside of blicka dash lug buck back land aud forth lit in patrol were the he lighter and ami faster craft con coal of destroyers destroy era unit dinall swift cruisers the scout cruiser had hal soled si led ins dc even llie inner line but they were not transports tian they wro still warships the troop transports ports were so BO far within all the protective cordons cordona that the Amp american rican scouts lying far along the horizon boil zou could not even sight their masts mams the enemy fleet scarcely arcely bc made lunde an I 1 attempt to attack the spying besack it seemed almost that flint the enormous tulips wits was too insolently hurt of lt its power to trouble about the scouts so with watching cruisers cault ars all aind to de yera hanging to its sides day and flight the invaders armada moved westward wei its as scendy as am n lifeless As civic ed machine and the outer cordon held bold true it did not move slowly majestically like tile the armored line incessantly it swept buck back and forth and lit in and out patrolling the hea xe i to it a distance so fur from tile the tunit tho he american onto lardy fould could nearer than to f y lit frum from their own tops topa tho thi tolls of I 1 11 As the lie uy rovereto rover etl the sea ana so he filled tit tin air constantly all city adny loni floating tind ind drifting with tile sort soft white cloots far beyond tit the farthest extent it t tile the cordon his survived surveyed tin tile water world awl and till day long and all night ton long the sli lp wireless tore tile the lair the american wireless creless lr eless too plumed played forth foith it its 4 electric waves or of air night light and nil day from daring to relay reiny ships and front from relay ships to hidden fleet and to waiting nation nent ment tit the atory out of the far sea the american milli millions omit knew the pro progress resa or of the lie ing jiunn us its if tile lie fleet beet were au an army moving u highway of tin the the nation wat cliel tile lie implacable leamui aid allive areat li lessly up 1 l tint lint behind its ith ston there was hope surely surely burcl nien nil 11 sold mild to catch other our splendid nellois it alors will tet get lit jit thewl act ti stowed by ltd its hi history story to expect thrilling deeds of dash unit enterprise unit wrest out ur or dimas lettin united states suited fur for the died deed it out of the far atlantic cattle tin the story it nae from the but bata tit ship kearsarge Rear Ke urani sarge u and went tu to thu the cluster chester it mils passed on oil by tin the ches let land pit led up till by the tacoma Tuco niu nud and the tacoma tossed it into the air and sent it t tu 0 tile the coast li glIMA silla tile X pit jrsn rge mid and then there tome came a lit in tile message musa 0 o destroyer light spoke tile the wireless tit biln tint 41 cruls er nisuke 1 ia ok tile wireless again in bulf an 1111 t llort all dwi iuliis iu liiK ia bif t m abart 1400 yards urd purt port baatu again chere cattle til me nil abrupt check to the to the meu men on oil tile the fleet somewhere off the virginia cuica capes und to the men lit in newspaper in outlives front aiom cheun to oreali it wits ais ua as if abey he were avit ft it li essIng the light indeed the pres acal will lind some or of it printed and ou on tit alie streets birone thu flat story atory wits done dreadnought started the wireless again yarda aid lifter after gull upper turret uin ain struck forward gun lower loer turret dla um am struck after gun lower turret the air felt fell silent it ans the tha last word woid front from the As it annn sald the admI admirall rill that night to the correspondents who pressed him for till nn interview 1 I 1 niu am klad glad flint tin till keni kearsarge did it As Ica 1 cirii onla say that lier her destruction old though abe he was Is a heavy hem lots loss to us that would not ile he bal lanced even den if beside 4 the lie she bank she hall had sunk both the c have ame ordered the iteva to keep keci itself intact does tint that mean that there are to be tit no raids it cannot lie be done answered nn the admiral with sufficient heroism can do rient great deeds today ns as ever without tile he machinery tt it can only KO 90 flow sown slinging i certain naval exports bash g their opinion on study of the r cent tinval battles clitia that it difference of us its little ns its 10 per iler rent cent in efficiency between fleps otherwise absolutely sol equal menns inevitable de strite tion for the lie interior inferior fleet the coeby transports tru aire within nn an inmost line of kreut ahls at the mar gill ol of their tbell zone of tire Is 14 another line of and the outer t union Is ut at therill the uj af tillit zone of lire fire thus ihus diio or of our ships ehlt would bare to break lit at least thirty miles every eury inch or of it un der fire from half it 11 loern ships it cannot bf be ilone done tills alm ilm lluc bo broken only by b brute fore force tu to attack in borce with out cuir inferior fleet would mean simply that we should smash ourselves hlin hill us its unavailing its as if we no si nashed ourselves s full speed attend it iw rucky c boist ost hut but surely ut tit rutht our ilila ou dash in ill lust isted etl the publik I to give filc up tip romantic lonni hopes walt atud some night you ou wll vill seel au then ahert came it 11 wireless relayed from tit ahr biggest aud and swiftest of the lie american Amei liun destroyer dl di vi she bam the whole ell tiem emy lewt flying around it through days and flights lit tile the full slaked or of her thirty knots her fler message told why li there auld could be no daring raids ut ale lit 4 1 I there haq no flight all the son ran the conati haills tule tale wits nus lit like a p r all DAYS BEFORE THE AMERICAN FLEET HAD STEAMED OUT OF LONG LONG ISLAND SOUND I 1 laming flaming city alt the outer bordun plumed its ita fur far toward null each horlon zon it played other ullar lights 11 lits inward li liand ind toward war its lt own ou battleships anil and the hue u of f b battleships 1 I lit in turn kept mighty searchlights bow and teru stern steadily un their transports 1111 n a 0 o its batich C li hall its guard bright surveillance never neer wavered Miner rd from duik to dawn those alio o sentinel never turned a u searchlight to sweet tile the surrounding sen ell they held their it stead mead lly in the white glare there was ua nut not liu inch of ocean within their hilts that was MU not ablaze A 1 fragment f rn kin v lit of drift udd uund could not have buie into that but vivid seat with ath 0 out ut being lie iiii detected det eted by a hundred eye CM 4 but ailt those St steady PlIdy lights told tile the secret stu y of the hidden though tit the destroyers men could not even time have sighted the lie tops of their masts la in the brightest light of day they could tile fix fixed ad ho lit ben beims m s distant its they were in the war and navy departments they thet guide up tip estimates from the ode code repot report aben hon it II was vaa done tile the ch chief of of stuff iw ed cd 01 ol of course our information assured us in that they would send end at leatso well men now that ve v have till 1111 idea liow how many not got we are sure of it and they ure are brin izing vast munitions the alabama alumn Al sister whip yelp to the Rear kearsarge sarge by haphazard fortune got between two enemy scouts bout and the main fleet and by sudden elat she never neer could have ac complis bod by speed slie she sauk sank them within twenty whittles minutes and returned without injury it was waa thirteen inch guns against eight lucli inch and the story was na as it always la IT the inferior enemy ships went down donn like pasteboard under the fire of the turret guns on the american vessel on oil the same day aln almost I 1 ost nt the same hour the scout cruiser bir nin ghaul at the other end of the enemy line sent report that the destroyer tiniest of the davist division 0 n had driven her two eighteen inch torpedoes home and sunk nil an armored cruiser that land bad fall en out of line to repair some unknown injury to ita machinery tle tile biln buln bridge did not tell its own story the little bont and her men mein were blasted into nothing llulu within ten minutes by a battle cruiser that hild had turned to protect her ber mute mate these disa disaster dl stem that might tuno have been appalling to a lesser se sea power conation left tile grent brent navy of the coalition till nil shaken steadily it kept on its way so there came the day when coasters casteri oa and small craft sped wildly into tile the shelter of boston and new york harbors into long sound and into the delaware and chesapeake bays bas they had seen the eili enemy enly next nex t knorn morning I 1 lag tit in ii 11 gray t ra aspa rents pence eill ful april dawn clown watchers un oil the const gazing pm lne acro ncr iio as tile lie empty flat fiat at hintie to the e half circle of the horizon horly fin saw innumerable tiny objects object just juit sticking nil u above the ritu or of thi the sea rea through the gins ginst t they seemed to be little perches relies or of skei skeleton eton iron built lit in abr deep set nt lit beautifully precise apart they dotti ilott d the sharply ont outlined lIned edge of water mid and sky shy north and south fur beyond vision innocent and quiet they appeared as they stood there here growing slowly very slowly up out of tit tin far spit nen anti and flip ro arlim pressed spon tinz forth extra editions enoi east west weft north all and south told the UnIt united eill states of america Ameri cn An invaders appear off american coast CHAPTER attacked by the th Eni enemy amys fleet even even in after yeary yeam was waa N it determined whence the news of thu the enemy ships s come came first almost us as easily might a land invaded by locusts bare decided what nhat eye first saw the coming cloud or ut at what precise rec lse spot worship on horizon hor lyou standing in slowly it lame came frum from the keeper of peaked bar life fire saving station Blot loii at the far end of cape cods coda sweeping sand hand arm from thi the crest of the nove nave highlands standing steep out of the atlantic nt lit new yorks harbor eu en trance nua men saw ships from hit his lantern 10 feet high the op lighthouse keeper of barnegat Barne gat on the new jersey const forty miles of the Nave saw daw tops libove his bit hurl horl zou zon ships blanding andIng cl off here berv came the word from cape ann north of hoston heard front froni alisemon absecon Ali light und aled cried to washington the enemy wua was preparing tu to on oa its const bloston ald briod to for and men new york fele graphe d and telegraphed it again min and sent bent dele gatzolis gatto gati olis on oil a 0 special train this coming invasion was unprovoked the needed deeded no party it DOW hiyi for I 1 it t know knew luu cull ON wits wim to to be A 1141 for life acad only the sword could decide andal had bad glau thu to the urmy army alij dairy without conditions it 1 Is 14 4 the least wa vv can do the pres proa find said paid low long ugo they wnm ed cd tile the nation the nation would not give giro them the tools toola they needed now flint there Is nothing loft left except to do their best they shall be left to do it in their own owl wity way the enemy fleet said nn official bulletin hiis has expanded its line enormously to threaten many far sepa rated points simultaneously and thus mask its iti actual design for landing lind lue our phlp und and air scouts and the urmy army air scouts are trying to penetrate the avreen of cruisers crul sera destroyers destro yern land enemy air craft to find tile real fleet with the convoys con roya tint hut I 1 h this not a 0 chance for the navy to atack the scattered enemy ships asked one opportunities may occur answered the admiral but tile business of our fleet Is to keep keel itself it in battle formation IA A tactical necessity for about nn outnumbered meet bretl the seacoast aea conat cities read tho the bulletin and held their breath elgh ain b their streets thundered the le ic its lit in pence peace halt but the exchanges were closed had bad closed half balf nn an hour opening lu in panic the banks were closing the street lending to the railroad ious train the financial centers were clogged by slowly moving lint but madly crow dlug an all 11 olno biles and cabs and trucks ou on one lie open truck guarded by half a dozen men who showed automatic 14 told ostentatiously were ing liaga 4 of if goi go 1 the states wee we c e being emptied elleu tore at it t sea i a i lit in their safe deposit vaults und udd rj I them into allsen and nin nil the rhe tiun ti diun baj ire or of the cities was being sent petit luland inland in front of tile the newspaper stood the citizens there was vill no from them except for the voices of I 1 lime hose who passed t the lie news on lon A man looking from a linh high window in it a news inife office suddenly stepped step loed inick with a choking in lils bli throat it 14 1 11 ll 14 1 K 4 tn lie kald nud and choked again if they were waiting for the end or of tin OIL world it ang a still morning heavy with the soft nir clr that hint early aih stalling lays ina on u the of ill alif sell suddenly Sud deuly that brooding dearv nir was ml inken one two T three afterward Aft erard when etien colip complied ared tin tile time atine they know knew that |