Show the of amu a by JULIUS W MULLER A fact story based au on the tha inexorable of war what can be done to oppose an 0 o invading army with our actual present no sources in trained mili tia la untrained citizens Clu zeni coast defenses defence field Artil artillery lM and nd all other weapons weapon of defense Def eaic copyright ass by J W y muller ll uller all ali rights reserved CHAPTER XII continued synopsis owing to impending war the tha united states state by a coal coalition tion of powers power of europe und asia alia the tha mobilization of at our regular anil and volunteer forces la is ordered the national I 1 authorities find that the united states Is woefully unprepared A bute foreign fleet of invasion la in reported miles in fit length tile states stales navy loses ships in battle the coalition fleet appears oft the now new land horizon and america becomes lie comen panic stricken A volun vo lunter toor aviator scouting mong dons the atlantic coner discovers the coalition fleet off new bedford Ced foid mass mas thirty of 0 the live anoma transports are teen seen noar nun null island standing in toward tho the invaders take block island inland nantucket and bl marthas arthas vineyard and wain the tha population not to resist they bombard with their warships tho the coast of now new C egland below cape cod foreign troops troop land on the Arne american rican mainland in powerful numbers nuin bara and transports protected by submarines and torpedo boat destroyers lie he off shore share with still more troops artillery and hor lione ties tho rhode island coast Is held by the enemy the united states forts along the coast rind find themselves too short handed to crnec lively attack the invaders they enough men our aviators nv latora are rendered almost by the tha superior number of the air men enemy aviators fly over eastern cities dropping warnings that tile the in forces ore are about to tn advance and summarily that list civilians civilian who resist will be dealt with summarily our militia la Is found to bo be in ft a of disorganized the enemy efura bairs af u the new york tork new haven anti and hartford ord railroad nd I laces a force of men in shape to make inake inroads starlit the atlantic sea noard oard minor engagements occur in in A desperate attack began in a dense dens tog fog by the coalition ht the defenses of narragansett Narra ansett bay are and they ralf fall the enemy x diett enters the ba and the tha nation Is literally stunned the killing of fourteen now new iceland england farmers armora by the soldiers eold further In flames public opinion the invaders are P re onward through now new england Enel arii agi comparatively feeble opposition alio aho fillips struck alle 0 cisly ti nit all along the line of defenses they fired close lit in north and ancl south and from battleships out at sea ew ire went orar and across into winthrop the speeding ships missed lulled the alie and their bursting shells wrecked wreck eil the town instead As aa its flamed reddened the sky the games of made it red ri re ay ly the quick search searchlights lightH baur cau tic jo ships apala and agnin the t bite light shaft fell on re veering cring sp eeling vessels and made them hurry to ret get awny before the ore control of the defenses could corer carer them still they returned each time they nt at it new point in ili the hopp hope of developing n defect tit in tho the sya tem X moh time they ailred till I 1 tho lie met of that they could throw in the one oae it in stant before tho the beams bancas fell on oil them there were few hits made by these running chipi but they could afford to waste ammunition since blace their contin ual attack forced the defenders to ise their own insufficient supply auppl y while half linked men tn in turrets and half naked men at coast guns and lu in mortar pits pita were tolling to wreak brute destruction a blahe ci ino of wits was wag being played just al busily this game was played not on the huge hues armored ships not in ili the formidable engine batteries of the forts hut but in the look lookouts outs of the american range finders for far northward miles outside u f boston harbor two ships stood lito into na nant bant bay here la in seten aten fathoms of water they sto stopped aped and low lowered ered their boats manned by crack crac D the cultera moved toward the at little battle Na jahant nahant far away tho th harbor searchlights played like summer lightning the sailors moved on in utter darkness toward the tavi invisible beach they rowed inan in in irregular formation till they could hear bear the surf then the foremost loats boats lay jay still tossing on oa the swell waiting for tile others to draw abreast fum fo ro less vaguely rray gray in the night the line made a darb daab aln they y were on the farat lifting swell of 01 the long ion waves that tunable tumble toward the when a fierce white allut tore terribly through the night and blazed on them and around them orangi flandes fla ripped through it I 1 little beach quaked with explosion loit in the white light us as if tho the tossing boats were spectral iral pictures in a dix dissolving efting view they me melted cited amid the roar of the shore guns dlack black fragments whirled through the steady glare and shells chopped the sea bea where there ivero bobbing heads bends and clutching hands tho the light stabbed blabbed the night in and out it veered to sra with enormous peed 1 A long hack black silhouette with ti tareo iree funnels appeared full tit hi the ctr clr tie of its artificial day A funnel vanished and another A spout of water lifted alongside from a shell that had anil short tho like jue nest st im ais licit ruto nito ian M atlle aird mado lt it r reel ee t the dt destroyer royer turned suddenly and rushed at the land its steering gear ind had been shot away almost instantly it straightened out again but little labant was raving baying little baliant was without lout the held the ship chip it staggered like a stumbling animal pitched twice c each line bitne a little more wildly nud and went down bow first have repulsed attack on searchlight station and observers at athla point went tho word from baileys hill bill on habant to tho the battle commander in fort warren no losses destroyer a ond nd five fire ships bonts boats with crews completely they did not have time to cheer nt at fort warren from nantasket Nan beach as far south ni a 4 habant was wag north a 0 landing wn was being attempted tempted nt in greater force and with the determined assistance si of a destroyer division that was lying close cloge to tile tho beach etere thero there were men of massachusetts chu setta volunteer militia coast artillery behind barb wire and sandbag defenses with two pieces of field artillery and three machine guns guna they were being swept by savage oro from the destroyers we can hold the ships boats off surf high and landing will be slow they reported to the battlo battle commander by blela telegraph nut but we roust must have bellef adlof from froin naval are or cannot concentrate efforts on landing parties their officers sent the exact distance from the beuch of tile lie dost destroy era ill fit the forts tile lie ore ire commanders command cri studied their charts plotted with diagrams of tho shore in sections they calculate 1 the range A dropping shot from a nl six inch sun fell among the enemy vessels one rill later inter the next went over the bird thard struck a destroyer before it disappeared were falling failing imolin the division too fast to count three guns were tiring firing were throwing twelve shells in one rul minute nute tile the fh holding bolding out when word enone nt at last that the raiders who had nt at marblehead IT pro to their lionts lio siti tl tb end if f the lighting fighting lind imd arrived afie fleet chilled off its honts bo n is anti took them t h em i board rd flaggard flag gird and vale pale people looked toward the sen sea and tile the dawn the sullen thunders still rolled out there but slowly now and far off the fleet ans using only its heaviest guns and faring deliberately though steadily called to destroy the effectiveness of fabe defenses uses it would content itself with aug range ore simply to went tho the defenders out till the army should arrive all night long boston people moved to unendurable terror by the bombard anent imd had tried to fleo from the city all night flight long other crowds had tried to enter it on all the roads roada tit th a opposing crowds lind met and bostl jos jostle tl they warned each other and tried triad to turn each other back shells were falling into boston town said the people who were fleeing from the city crazed by fear they invented the ho most monstrous tales and believed bel loved them thein hull was destroyed utterly there was nothing left of it all gay nan had vanished between it and point allerton the house along shore were nere thrown on each 0 jer ier and torn apart or burned on the last train to come in from the direction of brockton Brodt ton were some borne who had bad tied fled from that city it had been taken br b the advancing army in tho th a small hours hn rs 0 of the morning the town authorities ordered out 0 of bed by soldiers Bold lera had been escorted to tho enemy commander cO who bad mado them write ts cedoro sunrise nil all tile tho streets flaunted placards placard ordering tho the inhabitants to continue their business other placards warned them to delbur up tip all arms of tiny description twenty of the most prominent men sald said the fugitives had been seized ns its hostages wherever the army passed it mado good its possession wholly it left ua no village behind it in its ita march whoso choso means of existence communication coin ton food subtly and machinery of labor and business busl nesa it had not mado made entirely its own I 1 where there were destroyed places the invader organized the population to rebuild thorn them lie ile levied on every community large jorge and small for funds tic no paid out tio nothing thing of his own except written scrip at one blow the whole financial I 1 system of tho conquered country was converted into one bmat source of tribute suddenly there come a storm of newil to the boston papers it came from tile the country to the tha south of tho the harbor from cohns Coh aset et and weymouth ond and quincy heavy artillery wits wag being unloaded all along the abe lino alno of the south shore chore branch of the old colony railroad anti and limbers were moving along all the roads to the shore soldiers were advancing into nil all the bootous Bo populace listening to the clamor from the sea scarcely noted that tile the bulletins were announcing that ull nil the railroad llna linas of the boston and ad maine railroad lett dettling ling north and northwest jorth west to portsmouth haverhill laurenco Law renco and lowell hud been seized and that buston boston was ans completely cut off silent policemen appeared all at once toliu ed by men with posters and clisto palls the crowds saw posters go 90 up ou on their walls signed dy by tho the boston citizens committee there was vaa a poster lo in great red letters the inhabitants to deliver any fire arrus that they p assessed lit in the ho city hall within six houra attention said eald another placard in case cabe of military of the city a single disorderly net act may mean the ruin of nil all it Is the dut duty of 64 all citizens to offer no resistance and to report re port to tho the authorities any plan toward w ard resistance there T here was waa a great stir in thi th crowd A ca cab was pushing its through washington street to he glabe build ing two disheveled and blood plain main ed artilleryman artillerymen artillery men and an equally disheveled civilian cro in it while the soldiers went on to the city hall the civilian got out and entered the newspaper office ile iio was waa a globe reporter the cab hardly had stopped at the city hall before a bulletin went up FORT ANDREWS GARRISON gannison DIES AT ITS POST IGNORES SUMMONS TO SURRENDER ONLY TIMER THREE MEN ESCAPE FROM RUINS ten minutes later the earis ext ex rag ris appeared and were whirled through tho the town they passed with the speed almost of the wind for roea men passed them from hand band to hand band they shouted the news to people looking from windows in a delirium halt half of dismay halt of exultation the newspaper man had brought in such a tale as would live lire in american history at quarter past 3 the hostile general sent a 0 wessinge wes singe to the amein ame amer in nn commander nt at fort warren epli ig ag hin him of 0 the of his hh ici alei guns guna in one quarter of an hour said he be the bombardment will begin wo shall fire at Broo brooklins klino farst antl then no soldiers had ripp appeared eared in the city of boston itself tho the irm firm cd ring had contented itself with will en circling all the suburbs now tile lie telephone bell arting in tile the city hull bull and a voice asked fr the mayor the iho voice was that of tho hostile commander abe speaking alfil i from itron your defenses are lit in our hands ho said our guns every cery part of 0 your city I 1 have the lionor honor to domand demand unconditional and peaceable surrender at once with oil all property of every kind aba mayor know knew that disaster was at hand wo we surrender ho bo said very well was the response A body of troops under a general officer will hlll enter the city nt at once they will fl have orders to punish any disturbance severely CHAPTER XIII under foreign rule IP A THAT I 1 Is i happening in W ton the question stool satoei WW before tho united still and thern there was no answer all communication with it had bad been annihilated as it if by a lightning stroke tf if tho american cities with more than population twenty two were ft ere in the section that had been lost by the united states tho the assessed alii atlon of those cities alone was more than WO ton ten thousand i manufacturing establishments were in tho the grip of the conqueror all the springs of creative work wore broken shops and ries were open under orders from tho military commanders but the nud and did not know whit tu to do in ili the banks and trust companies everywhere there pr ns follows at I 1 6 4 N 41 t iia C A 4 k 11 rt if V Z tw a HELPLESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN FLED our conquest having ben complo completed ted carrie carilea s with it absolute ownership ot of pena ty conquered from tho the enemy tate state including debts as aa well as personal or real property the richest man lit in new I 1 was ans on a level with the poorest IL never much wealth he might have lying bine in the bunks banks ho be could draw only enough for dally daily food Fromi prominent nent among the notices that were posted here and in ili all public places of boston was the announcement of tile the institution 0 of f the now noty government it wua was on and after Ws this date the city of at doston Is 13 under the rule of 0 the head headquarters stall staff ot of this army the present civil of 0 ot of the city will continue their functions A continuance of existing civil and penal laws and the exercise ot of legislative executive and administrative administrate 0 duties are permitted under the sanction lon and with the participation of 0 the military government had boston iton town gone under in flame and terror the very fury of the abo catas batas might have carried men through it with lessi of despiler than this cold conquest the arst of all the newspapers were cio reserved by the mill military biry government for its announcements these were headed or ORDERS AND DECISIONS DY BY TIIE MILITARY government OF sisi AND TIIE THE CITY ciry OP OF DOSTON BOSTON thero were so BO many of them that thero was no room for news newa on the first boges poges even had news been permitted within twenty four hours the 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