Show 6 copyright im 1915 by b y i W all ali rights right reser vod A narrative fact story based authoritatively on the he inexorable mathematics of war what can de be done to oppose an invading Inta ding army with our actual present resources in regulars trained militia untrained citizens coast defenses defense fielo field artillery and all AH other weapons of defense CHAPTER VII Contin tied SYNOPSIS gwint to impending war against the united states by t a coalition ot of powers power ut of europe and asia tile the mobilization of our regular and volunteer forces arces Is 1 orile red tha national authorities u and that uita united states state li Is unprepared A hue buce foreign fleet of invasion Is in reported loi miles in length tit alio united stac maifea tai fea navy loses loea ahins la in battle tho the coalition fleet appears off tho now new england horizon and america beco iren panto stricken A volun volunteer tear avi aviator titor scouting along tho the atlantic coast discovery the coalition loot fleet off new bedford slams binna thirty of tho the enomia transports tran are seen cen nr nan island standing lit in toward dlos island the invaders talca tako hloch island nan and marthias Mart Alart liaS halk Vink vineyard yord a and nd warn the tha population not to deslat they boni bard with their warships tile the of 1 new england below capo cod troops lanil land on tile tha american mainland in powerful numbers ant ani ranc ports porta protected by ines inn mul d torpedo boat destroyers ie off ashore avith still me more re troops artillery aai airl 1 tho the rhode leland island coast la Is held by alie enemy 1 tho united state s forts forta along tile tho coast fill themselves too abort bandol to eften dively attack the Invade iu m they alic have n t enough mem our aviators av latora are rendered almost useless bv 1 icib liu ku perlor number of the enemy air enemy aviators fly over eastern cities dropping warnings that tile in madlne bading fo forced necip are about to ud vane e and that civilians who realist will be dealt with summarily our Is to bo be in 1 i of dein alatia gothing linn bittl awen forgot tou nothing left to be ced the horse flouts floats bad 11 langetig sterns backal into the those hinged lili iRed dropped lou down and fortuen gaug gang sill sall olds ois threw collision math on t hein tu tr i 11 event slipping it required lesi IMS th in a 11 to tower lower d i horse from froin tin the ships to the in less than lian lilla ti alf it infinite each hariw wits unloaded frola don ami set act Ai inhere shore to iiii ni ii ench of its vargo of twenty gonei and to have each iott craft off tile bench bild under tow for another load wits was a mutter matter ot of less than forty almost its aft swiftly nt lit another end ot of the bench beach guns gulls were vere ielne lauded landed from the same typo of eloids louts shoal and wide belittled that could lp run iun well up on shore and old could withstand ind the pounding of tile surf yet the bench beach never wits occupied for or at moment the guns were rushed inland the men were rushed the horses were rushed inland twelve hours boura after the first landing party lad had prepared the way island waa occupied liy by tow folit avaery and BO batteries of artillery almost two full dir lalon that lay in ta a great belligerent front snarling with guns gulls a perfect complex often assembled often tested machine under AvOrt average ge conditions it la Is po possible q to land infantry LOW 1000 cavalry and GO 00 guns gulls in six hours 0 in the crinigan Cil Cri nican war men 83 guns and horses were here embarked disembarked dis arid bet on oil ashbro in less than eleven hours withof it modern appliances over seas operations boo also bilt ailt lab find french records recon ls this was the time for the american army to strike before the enemy could increase hla his forces and move maye forward to attack CHAPTER VIII tho war in the fog 0 organize an ail army aimy in tile the face of the foe la Is like it a fire bre department when the of it a city are arc already in ili names flames la Is what the chiefs ut of the army wen trying liitt to do had been beau doing day nud and night despe desperately ever eer since the troops had come together to and in washington in the archives of congress there wort ceic lying 1111 of reports gathering dust blust that had to de lauded maud d nothing except the chance to do it in time here were regiments of militia so organized by their states stalls that if they were permitted to go tutu into battle as is they were ITO companies of infantry would faco face the enemy without a single cannon to protect them of all the eastern militia cavalry tit in that camp only one regiment had bad a guil c company om pany tables 17 ond and 18 pages annual report division of affairs U S A oct 1 1014 1914 ahr tb states send their lit in entry into ketive service without having hating ninde made every ble effort to supply it with tin till adequate lorld artillery support will see afo lit in the lie needless azicri ancel fl of that infantry tile cot cost of their lit in time of IrLI artl alon A 1 I mills Bri gedler general general F tuff U 8 AJ AI eren tin the regular army was clent only in those things that could be and perfected bythe by steady personal efforts of off officers ivers art and oil met men lit that on legis listion it wits ann lacking Inn tenil of ISO men to a company of infantry tome had bad only vilty alve its troops of oc cavalry were ivere not full it had bad no siege artillery corps it was waa a army which according to was to be clothed alth substance when war arrived now war had come and to clothe that sh eleton with untrained men would have meant that for every sixty flye ski lloil sold soldiers lers there would b bo 0 eighty lire five utterly useless ones la in each shortage of wen irea was riot not the only curse that yam laid on tile tho army by the polley of neglect in ili the enemy headquarters two or of at the most three orders order 4 were sent seat to department chiefs for every movement in ili the american w tho start staff lind had to lent deal with nulls inua I 1 lvery problem had to bo be handled tit in detail dot ill hy by inen who have been fretto direct one great giedt compre heli gIve movement iery very order older issued liy by the he commanding general beneral demanded ln duplication ta alic opral lind hud under him corn inand ers era of brigade who ho lind hail comin al loit that only L of regime K tits their bri brigaded gadem never us ns sein sem bled bleil lit in ally one not only di all 1 l not cot to war condit tlona long but I 1 vid ind to i I 1 r v and divided and 11 reformed formed L before thy the general could darr dare to thein oln in battle hardly i bri abrl gade adv lind had under kiider him troop trompa that tie lie hud had known and trained and handled himself with of thas eliose 0 who va to had bud been beebi on oil the border when it part of ff thy the isaiall anny aminy had been bean too mo billa d lit in a body for tho the first time these inen hud had tried to prepare themselves with the best that congress congre ai would give tarui battit lions and corn coin pailles and single sli ilu butteries ballet lei instead of ai assembled bled annta bemuse because the claus clans would not lot tile army come to ge ther the forty cinq artay army posts of the united states Stitt cs long it subject of derision autong till nil except those who fattened on oil them might well have been symbolized now in ili that caknip by forty little skeletons a sk skeleton oleton aricy waiting nit to lend lead ill alie other skeleton army to death while the he men inen who wish to army navy upon unnecessary army posts or gayy yards arda have bue such bueti a voice ns as well ft ell ns as li vote 1 e in ill the house of cong congress res a great leal deal of waste and otra Is 14 sure tu to result henry 14 Pit laison fornier secretary of war to notto way was vila letter better known than to the enemy the invaders command er r stan standing dlug idly with wit ft ath h ills his hands lit in his pockets wits able to say my confidently they not bother us its seriously the only thing do tile the only thing they call in do la is to retreat when we be gin to threaten them lie ile hold held in his grip the sea nea the land ond null the air inshore lay ships ready tu to sweep part of his front with protective lie fire on land his advance forces had seized roads and railroads hn bla engI engineers neeN were wele repairing what had been destroyed dea troyed arid his bla cavalry was guar guarding cling till all approaches ilia his air men avei numerous balod on the american army ainey almost with impunity ail parried with sure aerial thrusts all merican merl can attempts to spy on their own lines the aerial guard steel broc bronsted sted with alth uie the wings of speed and talons of ire fire could be broken only by equal num tars 1 equally terrible individual dar till lait individual skill were nothing against brood five times aleis fliers rose to try it tind and five they were ernp pled lit in midair and torn with shot and dropped to the earth for far below no morel the general lit in cont inand ile ho sut sat with tila his chin in his annd itu studying dyIng the dispatches that were laid before him they were piled high though twenty operators and halt half a dozen aids struggled led to tb eliminate from tile torrential confusion tile the news newa that might be deemed most reliable there were vere messages from washington messages from coast defenses messages from patrols and outposts from scouts anti and from company commanders ma liders there were wild reports of enedy invasion from places no BO far inland that it was palpable that they could not be true there were reports from places so rear near by that they might mean imminent danger II incited cited officials of towns and cities sent pent ion oil involved diA dispatches patches or hung for long nil to telephones to re count cinat interminable talo tales q one hundred bundled thousand men had land inrid pill pi according to who had mado made their way into fort brehle in the nor defenses it was I 1 d providence transmitting messages front from the toast coast the ardys own sou s ou 4 and spies and patrols grop ilg lit in numbers and hiding anding a n wall mail of cavalry and foot ma and machino machine guu detachments opposed it to blim bent in f that varied all the way from 2 to these american advance detach livenus n puts were striking the enemy outposts cast anti and west near wath three american motorcycle companies Inu chite guna gulls amb lashed and up two troops of cay cavalry american cavalry drove back bach a battalion of en ca fincers who cvito biad bad ax work akk on the itic railroad at langston kingston at Klant lc two american motor patrols ran into the fire dro of a concealed held field gun find and were destroyed from fort 1 ti chlo on oil gull island tame camo the news brought ly by a montauk point fisherman who had to annite lila his way across nerY 49 the sound bound in a minnil boat that men had landed on that end chit of long I 1 aland lalni id they had destroyed all communication immell and had seized the railroad leading to new york bant it wits was impossible to guess 1 bess uess how ineat great in eat this force was only ono one certain cert itin fact ans developed from all the news it was that the transports were still suddenly almost simultaneously the american patrols were driven bak all along the line on a front that extended quickly irresistibly clear across washington county it I 1 from enst cast to we west it the invader ailcy expanded it seized belied watch kingston avns occupied 0 in ili force wickford junction was occupied narragansett rier iler wits mas flooded all at once with well and guus guns with the swiftness of a blow from a fighters fl fist t the invader had struck and won the entire railroad lall road system of the rew new york new haven and hartford railroad lit in rhode island and commanded tl t a way to providence the f had filled ilia hla divisions forty tl tb busand men veto ready for battle on oil american moll with in reserve on tile the const now tile lie avind ind turned southeast point judith khuder Islan islando dm cape that coastwise ma marinero mariners mariu eia call the fog nole hole began bean to brow blew oue one of its april togs fo 8 gray and blind ail and wet its first effect was kind to the americans the clemi nil ail craft seeing tile alie vapory bank growing front from the sea fled toward their lines from nil fill dl di sections ious they came in like gulls gulla fleeing before a storm they ahe could not dare to remain lit in strange territory all AH their title due maps mapa nil all their ingenious lustra instruments ments would be impotent against it they came lit in arid and alighted behind their army freed from them and masked by the fop fog the american scouts went forward again and grobi t once indro along the foes front in ili an ail hour held field telephones end telegraphs and aerial told the lie Ame americal commander enough to assure him that the inci ays force lu in met men was at least nearly equal to his 1114 own ile he knew too that the invader hail biad brought up preponderating artillery every road every piece of negotiable goti got able lable country was held by guns the A mei lean army held tight in its front it find and the foe there was not a rail line not a bridge all it had been destroyed behind it lay n perfect railroad sy srm with long trains emills and giant locomotives loco mothes under steam tind and all the gathered motor vehicles ready to hawl so fur far the fog was kind kanj to the defenders hut but the invader I 1 too 0 0 a quick alck to belze ace its favor long before it dozen men dressed like fishermen had bild made ther way out of narragansett harbor in it small sloop cud anti hail reported at the file enemy for it a month or oi more past they tl ey had been hilling for Iob tera I 1 ut lit they lind caught more than culp bui their bentch lay la on oil tile the table in owa commanders tent in the form of charts whit ith soundings and range lines in stances distances they were maps of tho the mine fields ali AB soon na as the fog began these men went aboard it a mine sweeper it enst eastward word followed follow td by the others othera the sweepers had more than the cables that wake A inyim onins set in rows on tho the it qc ege anch h iaabel wyo mines filien with ROO pounds vf of will Trini now being used lc ir europe Kii rope largely for under water work la iq one olle of tile lie most violently acting el ei plosives plo aie known today the fog becaro go BO thick that lint it was hard to say if it were daylight still or night night could only make it more black it could not increase the obscurity ity iu ill tile the coast de defenses of long idland sound and narragansett bay every mail was straining eye 3 and cars and nerves every gun gill collim company evv was at its ita weapon i wery every gun guit wis loaded tall projectiles stood ready with the chains and grapp lesof the hoists prepared men stood waiting val ting lu in the powder magazines under the batteries nothing to we or hoar bear at fort wright on fishers island nothing at rort fort machle on gull island nothing at fort terry on plum ilum wand hand on oil till nil the shrouded swift tid eways that led I 1 lito into long island sound there wits was noth ing there was nothing in front of the narragansett defenses that eyes could see or ears could hear nothing and then far out it wilts was na as it if a sea monster lind had arisen in ili dying torment and lashea prid spouted and screamed before the riven column of water could fall there came muffled thundering explosion under tit the water one two liucc tho the defenses split the fog with fird their mine protecting batteries bat bai been trained |