Show if 4 A V ri copyright 1915 by J W muller all ali rights right reserved A narrative fact story based authoritatively on the inexorable mathematics of war what can de be done to oppose an invading army with our actual present resources in regulars trained militia untrained citizens coast defenses field artillery and all other weapons of defense 1 VI I SYNOPSIS owing to impending lIng war ai against ant the h a united states state by at coalition ot of powers u europe ei ropo and abla tile ot of our and volunteer forces la Is ordered mie nul authorities autho a find that hial the HIP united states to in woefully unprepared A huge huea forel cri fleet of invasion Is reported miles in ili length tile united elates eases navy in battle the fleet appears ott off tile new L uns ing land horizon anil and america becomes panic aL ricken A volunteer aviator alator scouting along tile atlantic coast discovers the fleet oft off new nedford ned foid mass thirty of tile the transports tran port are seen near nantucket tu ket island standing in toward blace wand island the invaders taka block island nan tuck et end martham martha n vineyard ond and warn the population not to resist they bombard with their warships tho the fit of new angland Ln gunil below cape caio cai o cod foreign troops lind land on tho the american mainla nj in powerful num numbers bersand and transports protected lii by submarines and torpedo boat destroyers llo lie off with still more loots artillery and horbes the ethod s tl island coabe la Is held by uio the eneany i i the united states forts forta along tile tho coast and themselves too short handed to effectively attack the invaders ln oders they haveit enough men our aviators tile 1110 rendered ij a imort by b tho the r of the ene rays a air man inan irbey could until light tile guna to ko lon left as n tho the fiction neI a alili to fort foit nc lie cioll lint but it if tit alie el ily attacked nt at tile i rear ear front from tile tip lidid they tho were not in fit sufficient force to meet him and throw him nick buck attacked from the lind land the he men of the defenses bould biru li b iru iio to to retire to the inner keep and light from shelter with rapid fire runa guns and when airn ibe be defenses thus began to tn dolend their hour would have etrick still for the time they hey warp deadly the enemy fleet paid them III lie supreme tribute of scrupulous respect sot not a fl ventured after dawn into the bondly circle ircle of their liehr reach to make inake that lint no ioe F ralf liy Acer deat the fie s 4 of tile lie fleet were even abon moving well K outside of the zone of ex lie alre mid id 1111 meNO tel steel buoys fallt etl cd a arld alrid scarlet these scitt haulet let boods nil ail area of lint flint nf somewhat like a penta goll with alth iest t apex nt at block island find its 1 ase oil tile the island c cobit 0 ast between watch hill and point jud ItIl it was n liase marking out ive five miles or of bench that was stife floth from the ire fire of the low lone island sound pound defense 9 sti outing over the witter water along lalind shore bild from thu the shot bbott of tile the tiRes over oe I 1 ciodo island from within cicro daylight revealed a land annd occupied in orderly or dorli quiet perfect military manner man nir In inland inrid ns as as the linval glins could protect liy lay the lie men of the advance landing party be blud hit d their macelue mm gall poM floum for miles all beyond that int in t ciul t their patrols ind hill cut telegraph mid and tele dp phone wires and occupied points that flint commo indol roads by which attacking forces inight approach on oil tile bohl bo hl where the blecka and tackle and holi derricks hit lind been risked rigged tu lit ih HIP gulf were be ing brought liron glit to ro tile lie bench beach with mid cal esons there motor trucks iiii trie flon en elnra es till nil curlit ln to hind during tin the night tont tonk them and hurried them it to positions position kikly for foi fight or to park birk them own ready tor toi moving iliK when wn the th ml ad vance begin prom from rali tage points hil hilarid arld florn fl orn MIN hills on oil llund island front from such huch ren ion tiresome tui tur esome aila 11 us 4 il 11 0 vent the news to find so through the fail liand the crowds lit in tile the cities dense even tit that early curl hour of the morning rend read if the bal ballatin letin lauird enemy it la during the illet on oil island between bett tien narni fansett gan sett bay and long island sound transports tire now lose close in to put troops ushii re e scouts report four liners aggregating tons army officials claN tint flint nt at the usual nl ni lowance ut of two tu men per ton tell this CO men more transports walting under allock Isla Islar iid ld 11 now li tile the tune time to strike em cm cried tile lie nien before they can call being more forces adorel they dhave ahnie beell attacked in ili tuo the night wh ahat I 1 t kind of genc generals rals anu wo we got ot to lot let em cm land instead of throwing lm err eni bick back into the sea na mi fait in as 4 they roine collie where here 1 Is vur our urmy Keep lna itself safe the army with civilian in work err en impressed us as tit iliev y were irv needon ana a destroying dentro liiK till alio railroad 4 of south ern new neu II if was liaa henring up tip the shore title line of the now new ork now new ark mid and hartford wid from new to to new london till and I 1 I 1 from new london to ill orld elive it was the lulls in im out aut cars to be whirled away avny rd and north ward collo ete mul stolle steel bridges and tunnels were befit through ill the flight witt kli d minute CHAPTER vil VII tha th american army lack of eyes ey N the army where n I 1 IN single short order hud hall set loose till nil tills of destruction fit alie commanding general call and his stuff fair were busted busied something that or of alloro to i mey were thrust I 1 toi I 1 ig out for foi information and 11 iwais wert veil by superior sti perlor ii 1 it u bers Mi perlor rv burces they lini pushed cm clr toward the ceist till aind it lind li id liven hern driven luck back by tir tillery and long raico lire fire from tile whose alin iva IMI 4 cout controlled rolled by front ft ill the sly sky and wireless front froin the shore they had pushed out nut motor scouts tits and the artillery hall found thern them ut it every 1 10 during dining the lip night or 01 alace I 1 inslight Iny light lie sl chips ilis lire fire hail swept tho the rn ida now scarcely rc till nil bour after sunrise tile army 4 roine back bacic litter lifter audr IMI h outing they lind bild 1101 been biblo to ill over OUT the lie in ili railed 4 ni lt thiv tried it heimi ted tile hirr met inet lii fly eneany in one united 1 attles air man lind find been drudi lv br noemy planes intia nar nr I 1 agni isett ini bi v in fit lind find bt been pit picked up liv by lineta fl amm if lit newport torpedo station two others b boroo 0 erfle do n by three aneny machine flister thim the they nud aud fired tit by and air craft KUUS gull front II 11 nil fill 1 I 1 1 ig ship imil had barely managed to escape behind tile defell sem of fort wright lit in lie ihu sound bound the lind find been pressed weli bick inexorably by the screen of naval planes ladies lai ies that sw arinea OV oica e r if the to con const t the enemy pleura balue frontu the sea hon to the marveling eyes lit hi thu the american de decenes fenes inca it seemed us its 1 it tile ocean aee iii were spewing them forth foith one utter after another rose lose from tho the atlantic under block island three till eo strange asels vessels es els lay there they bid bad funnels uni ieli tiit set extremely tai far lift aft ilk allio e certain types of clumsy ships but they were aiu big ut g na as pa sh filters nud and thell their flues coved showed eai elency of the naval architect great of thell their decla furar i wua was nil as bill lulu as aa thu the deck or of a racing schooner eachl A structure on oil short trestles like ilka a skidway rose lose from this deck ut aft the bow project hig slightly it was mia there that the aeroplanes aero planes were being spewed Bp skewed ed these were kotlier ships torpedo liet netted ted guarded by destroyers guarded even by a small seuil deml t jold dirigible that hovered hover cl it thousand feet high they were sending out their aples bal 3 to fearce tile thu land the two united states filers stand ing by their machines in fort foit looked lit at ill the e ascending abarin no wonder sald one you know ilow how utility ninny one of those nations lind at lust last accounts nn twelve dred 11 and weve kot got thirteen in the army arm at and I 1 a twelve in ill tile the limy ills ilia corn com P pinion laughed and heift lind had sixty before the great vor 1 they said no more but watched lit in sit silence ence alint ascending continually growing grow lug line fine or flying hi ing things was like that was writing into the sky ill alio word resources retour ces 11 1 suddenly the mir men noticed that these new liely ill achilleA were not 11 flying lug to the lio coast const liehr abern they evere off in ili regular order one W tin i wet west to it iv over long island the next net one turned enst toward HUB bay they alternated thur till tile lie patin entire lon lind find separated and ared one of the lie scouts slapped lits lila thigh 1 I believe bc said bald lie he that they nrc are going to show to boston and new york chrit was nt at 0 9 in ill lit at noon loot tile lie crowds in the lie two cities idere were startled by a distant roar tint that grew almost before clivy had first heaird it into it thundering that shook tile the air they stared upward and beheld the ferit of armed hying flying machines that america ever lind find seen feell armored with the bright colors of the lie enemy on oil their under bodies tho front from tile enemy leet fleet flow flew low they close to the state house on stona beacon they rhey flew few over 01 er tile tall municipal building of now new york and nd dipped toward the city hall they appeared over provi bonce and fail river over brockton over bridgeport and now they passed over fiery every one of the file nc tory cities of new jersey that crowd to 11 bo be near new yorks harbor I 1 where they appeared it wua n na sr it they boro sonie some charm to turn tuni the lie world to t htone all ail the city noises stopped derd deed all motion stopped thou the people tied lied Mot ormell and dill drivers era bent low ana yelled idled nud and sent their vehicles ich liles ahead blindly the crowds every doorway they fought for the protection of narrow cornices cornicks cor nices rim na it if they were bomb proofs thoy they squeezed themselves close OB to tile video of IV and cl clung un p tu lion iron mill and granite i unite and stared uIn vara wit ithie for bombs instead tit of bombs they saw things ril liling jowl down gently lightly little weighted pennants that circled downward in fit lovely spiral 4 and dropped un oil the hie streets with scarcely a sound into ever acry y crowded street into every open SIta roof half of a hundred cities that lay flav the hostile air men dropped these penn nuts abey were printed they hore addressed addre ased to tho the people of america Amo ilca our armies have landed said the proclamation we shall hall advance on your cities at once any attempt to defend them will mean their destruction civilians are warned against making any demonstrations whether with arms anna or otherwise infractions of this rule of war will ho be by summary execution from which hostile acts are corn miffed will be destroys destromp destro Ml d towns whose civilian population realeta will bo destroyed troy take taka warning wai Ite covering front their shock of fear america an mil ani I tills this the twentieth avii century and the te men no less brave 10 0 o lesi patri otle fared faced tins the conditions of their nent a atia time aluie the formed committees of safety they wrestled with elieh tov beavy mu muc hin erles to mike make them an all tile need tile the stress ull ail tit the defects of their political rule stood out uncompromising nut not tu ti be denied their departments were mcie lost lit in tile ingenious mazes mazei of their own there vaa its only one answer to tin the inesti acab le blind c on fusion it an marttil law li hut but here too alnie was MIS inefficiency that had been cultivated and gentled teni tent led like a plant by politics through the lie heedless years in ili the nr ar mailea there were arc tie no reserve supplies of weapons or ammunition for flip vol 0 o who ho came to otter r theli their ticie ices fees although Altho uRb the united states nov gov ern had riven given the states stall s enough money annually for many funny years oais back to edip bliem to full str stron enath ali alij nii although the nill itla nowhere lind had maintained even tan one half of blint there were no resolves reserves of bt blankets li kukets of I 1 of tents of cots the volunteers could not even be shod thoice who were accepted liati had to drill lit in their worthless street that never could survive sun he tile the test of r roush ou b roads niia and nind and water polities it blared tit alie appalled citizens citizen 4 lit in the face wherever hc reer they turned its as it hall had staled them in tho face for a hut but now flow the lind find to look and seo see it was as that had left their filch state to blundin r along alone each by itself without agreen tent or settled fettled blui it was aa politics that now had tent their plucky lucky li intelligent capable young men into the held field insufficiently ped trainer or organized sed it was na politics that now left their cities baro bare to be male ri a Z A jj X 48 r V jall 4 aa V oun ARMIES HAVE LANDED WE SHALL ADVANCE the first impulse impulso of the americans rend read these proclamations was one of rage their lind had grown brown proud in fit unchallenged great greatness these pennants slowly raining from meir sky were infuriating insults in the state house tit in boston there were said bald the words that hut uttered tho emotion of fill all the cities along the atlantic coast in ili that of old rebellious town where american liberty had been nurtured tit in the very presence of an armed foe there were gathered many emilic eminent tit citizens with till the cloiN tile the mayor and the governor of their state one of these ot 1118 had 11 pennant lit in lits ills hands what can call we to do lie he R aked if wo we had bill the militia of tile the state here we would have loss less than 1000 men if the lie foe arrives and lays ills guns on oil the town gentle gentlemen tuell they will be guns that lire fire high explosives ond find incendiary sl shells eils we lve have bave nothing to with it if the army cannot cherk jilin before he arrives reg we must to save our peoples lives we must surrender peaceably lie ile turned 11 to a mail annn who bore it family name identified i with V ith boston s ill history I 1 fro frair the time of its settlement nil if ancestor had find stood in ili Pati cull ball with james jarair otla otis when he dedicated it it to the cause of liberty lie ile took the proclamation held hed it for a while lie ho looked around the circle find and then crumpled it suddenly ring ingerly rily lit in his fist throwing it to tile noor floor he set III hla foot on it 11 1 I say hoi ho cried with aln flashing shing eyes lot let him film destroy it hetter better still let us destroy itt when tile lie enemy approaches pro aches lot let us its send our boston town vp up li in flames and fragments let 1 I leara him film not so fo much as a rivet for loot cfall if nil thought like you said one till nn old grave ninn man lint but we have C 00 p fo boilo ilo ond they tire are not soldiers or human men it la laid on us its to protect them thein |