Show 1 I r J 4 14 v ram AX yz copyright 1911 by J W muller all ali rights right reserved A narrative t I 1 act story based on the inexorable of war what can be done to oppose an invading army with our actual present resources in regulars trained militia P ki litia untrained citizens Citi zem coast defenses field artillery and all other weapons of defense CHAPTER XIV continued SYNOPSIS owing to impending war against the tha united stat states a by a cou coalition don of powers of europe and asia me mobilization of 0 our regular and volunteer forces la Is ordered ab the e national authorities find that the united states Is in woefully unprepared A huso huge foreign fleet of invasion Is reported illies tit lit laneth tho rho united notates otates navy loses ships in battle tile coalition fleet appears on oft the now new ens ena land horizon and america becomes panic stricken eu icken A volunteer I 1 scouting along tho the atlantic Atlant lo coast d discovers I 1 s tile tho coalition fleet off now new bedford Bed foid talty of 0 the enemas transports aro are seen been neur ne ir nantucket island tit andIng in toward bloc island the invaders tilio mock island gland nantucket and Sl arthas vineyard aai and warn t jhb he population not to resist they bombard with their warships tho const boist of new england below cupe cape cod borelan troops land on tho the american mainland in powerful numbers and transports poi tn protected by submarines and torpedo boat destroyers llo lie off shore w alth tit still more troops artillery all and li orsea tho the chodo island coast la is hold held by the enemy the united states forts along alon the coast find themselves too short handed to effect lively attack the invaders they enough men inen our aviators av latora aro are rendered almost aamodt useless by b tho the su superior perlor number of the air nien men enemy aviators fly over easter easier cities dropping warnings that tile i is invading forces aro are about to advance and that clel ina iia who resist hlll be dealt with summarily our militia Is found to ho be in A of disorganized the enemy galvis ut the new york new haven blaven and hartford railroad and places a force of men in shape ahapa 0 to o mako make inroads along the atlantic sea BOB biard board minor e cements occur in ti a desperate attack began in a dense densa fog by the tha coalition fleet the defenses or of narragansett boy bay a anra r a shattered and they fall fait the fleet enters entera tile tha bay and the tha nation Is literally stunned atu nned the killing of Tour fourteen teen new england farmers by the eremya wolters sadlers sod lers further trip ln linua amen public publia opinion tito the invaders are pressing onward through new england against comparatively feeble opposition the fhe new f blow up tip bridges and tear car tip ip rall railroad roud tracks lit in frantic QU et fortado for fort tato sto top stop tho ess ca of the tha enemy dynamiting occurs occur everywhere stern reprisals aro commanded by the chief of tile foreigners alty offer city was waa set bet in names flames A terrific bombardment of cities about beaton 0 0 t on harbor hull la is destroyed by fire clr the enemy lands forces nt at na hant after ing tle tile wity by a heavin willi will big shells this fiction takes place at night while walla our foria facto put un a tr ir ila llant nt ance and a alt barlous of alia hostile war C raft croft tha rev tire bc brot om nos too great and loston Is surrendered surrender the enemy nn an that beaton la Is now to bo ruled by the tha of tho the foreign n army A mass of loveral thousand thou and men from new haven hartford rind other new england Ln eland cities clelea seize from and trains anti and prepare tit lemont tile rex regulars ulars in resist iria e tile tha attackers of th clr horam and tile GRAF F ans ti 7 report from brigade headquarters twenty imi amr of inch artillery moved westward through now haven last flight it sald paid our spy apy reports that thetty guna appear to be of 0 the type that iii it known to have it 11 range of seven miles far butr our field puns gunst parilea by bety benty convoys of shrapnel ne find and shelf they are arc bringing up heavier guns suu still sold said the general geDor nl selecting adoth or cr report Ble between tween new london and saybrook brook junction tint flat cars were swa sen with 1102 inch which we lyp presume must be tho the type that throws a pound projectile we havo have nothing near that type in ili our to oppose them theiu As they aliey have it u range ranee of yards they hoy can lie placed tv wherever iber it pleases tho the enemy and wo nye might as well bombard them with roman candles as with our guns guna 1 I tell you said the pre president si dent the country tj lit wild the people know that you have tho the of tt magnificent railroad system from here to new york fit at your dispo disposal sn they L know n ow that tile the invading army must out tremendously to hold bold nil all the territory that it occupies s th they LS connot why you should not bo be abia to engage thu tho force that la 14 ud lid on oil new york th 4 general walli walked d to the wall map the e enemy Is thinned out yc lie laid jaa lis hid on the ch chart eliut to inert him we 0 o must duo due south 1 to 0 wiles down the hudson ml 0 o with the river rarer on one side hide of up anti and the nud aud litchfield ili hi a ef cf mas und 01 on tile the other wo we cannot leave leare men us its to tint hint length of line nud aud hold our odd oad for us ua if we linau to retreat when general murch march HI ad to to atlanta 0 o icat 1130 fact inan he be llund him to his mile line hue baek back through chattanooga to nash ashville we ive have bess isa i sa than wen men in our whole army even if wo we serape together all the very aery latest late green ar hivala the moment w v leave our base the ona monder the enemy win will lc biow div it they will jat antly be W j a qt 91 their I 1 now new englana fora for cis they will aril push 1 licin nerom herom into new york state be lilium na its well tic he trapped 11 you think that hint they can concentrate enot enough ligh oskco the secretary of war the soldier pulled a paper out of the lille wid read observer at loporto that hostile lios forces entrained flold fadil and licary artillery and columns nt at regular rato rate of two houn lioci s for full military train time fur lovi loveling ling alceo material three ond and a half hours lip ile d the aside when did ill kiy of our ever havo have to fanolla bu men ho be asked how wany of oft liem thein ever haf handled idled na as ma caann ny na last week two were ivero left ifft without food for two meals on it pr practice artice march because their bulled to supply travel rations ay before yesterday seven boxes provisions were foard lying tit iti a comply coro street without any one to them tam those were militia but our onn oni officers equally lack inch eute e in ax aich 11 a b big ico contract n tr a ct na its 11 i iv liol army do you know what it menus menris to see thill un an infantry In division seta gets ua its nin ma if rial do you know what wore were got to to I 1 uto ito battle avith it it mean ideana ni an train of four mule angona s and more than enles und and hors then there are the other sub sup cr r it passed through that town to join the division that had taken bridgeport and was waa pressing wei westward tit an hour later the american army apprised by its ti chud files began to block the rock cuts on n till all the new york central systems 0 leading northward out of new york city when new york heard beard this news it knew that it had been abandoned CHAPTER XV attacking the metropolis n the harbor long ONLY island sound bound were still speak V ins ing to each other from the forts forta on aliro d s neck in west cl cleester iester county comity nil and from fort totten on LOUK long island the commanders nt at forts and alli wadsworth in the narrows received requests for more men lurre large forces said the sound bound defenses were closing lit in rapidly to lit in rest them un land from the roar rear it would lie he it tilt n artillery and infant light fight in which the coast guus could take little part it if any the commanders of the narrows were help helpless legs to give old aid the commanders of tile sandy hook defenses defense were hipless all the men regular regulars regu lari tind and militia of the coast artillery who could be obtained were not ilot enough fort Ifa hamilton mllton being on the long island shore itself dared not denude itself further than it had done at any WI aa i N kv hl IRI J V f r na 4 4 X 44 k 11 ta X A THE AlIE AMERICAN RICAN volunteers LAY BEHIND THEIR DEFENSES ply trains daliis the pack trains imd and the en gincer trains more moie wagons and COO nini nials there are ninety ambulances bu lances and wagons with their vial mals and this la Is without counting the horses for the cavalry anol the signal ila coal co carpi jl I 1 toll tell you ilir ir president if we vo unload that mess in ili the he face of an enemy like ille the one down there he polli pointed ted southeast wart lt it will hlll never get arct back herel here and it 1 you ou tny stay heyel wont you lie be attacked asked ft a member of tho the tit party parti 1 I think nut the general turned to the chart figgin see liere here lies hes I 1 kot got a great big territory to hold al ready randy when m up he has new yo vaili city nil iiii harbor to control also I 1 think hell ile 10 too well n all occupied mattack to attack uj ui until tie he briny ro re across at any rate lie he cant chirle to ua its except the direct direction loii of new york city up tip the narrow river valley or from the direction of if through the berkshire hibi 4 we ve can call make the ibuki of the hudson it difficult place for or bini tind awl the longer we can hold dold on oil hole here the louger louder tho the ordnance works nt at auten alil can call continue to turn out the holivy gulist that ve ne need so BO sorely mr mi president in my eyes ii tho the moat thing weve got to nard just now flow As tin the army entered bridgeport adoth i column advancing paral lel lei ich willi it aured tile the great turing city T waterbury in the north with theste thee two cities tho the invaders invade Inva dera rah conquest conque 10 quest bt of new le was corn com pleto excepting only portland in ill balne he now every city or more than population lie ile pos hessed every source or oc ile he lied hed every port on tho the northera nor bhora of rone long island aund the dIvi ellon that had taken avater aury turned southerly to the coast oft aft moment there raught be an attack on oil ll if too it was about I 1 in tho the morn ing when the people of northern nort bern lony long island and the inhabitants of the lie hot bor ough of tho bronx and West westchester cheste county parang from their beds in ili wild ahira without warning as if a hurri hurd cane had struck with instant concen orated force all their windows kev hull crashed their walla valls were veto shaking find and pictures aud and phister fulling falling it was war like no that wen men ever had im agines it was anotn not a series of ceplo alons it was like one due explosion whose crescent yf olence would not dw dwindle hidle men on vantage 1101 points rits along the bound that saw the attacking attaching lines from end to end plainly as if it were toy day so continuous was their fire alre that it painted their po positions a with broad unwavering hands bands of flame it needed not the star bombs and rockets that curved everywhere under the sky to fall glaring into the defenses I 1 it t needed not the lie wagne gium lights that thai floated from parachutes dropped by nero planes on oil both sides or of the sound the ekht was a red wa sen y into the mortar pun gull em cm placements of the defenses me it a red surf from that red ml sen sea bent tile the un andini shrapnel ehst walled like tile the irl of the storm aid dew apart in ili tit the air thing bullets us as if minea had bad burst inside of the de defense feuse eleven liidi eliell shells that hammered hummer cd into con crete facini anti anil split it apart with the irresistible agony of their explosion five inch shell nud ind solid projectile from the mr and every agency arency that mail had yet devised to wreck and destroy I 1 AS aa sud delill as n it had be besun un the fire st stopped 0 1 ped the night became utterly still the curving nut in nil all abe licenses anses there shone abone white glores from find magne maene gilum flares illuminating dushl I 1 dolif lolif laasi 94 0 of r nien men who clambered over oscr th ehg 11 r wax 0 of acma it anil and in mounds 44 took the there hiis wr S iiorio left to oppose them when the lie dawn come camo the watchers rubbed their eyes the great defenses lay apparently unharmed their mounds and embankments betrayed Let rayed tio LhIng of the ruin that the nights battle lad worked within but against the brightening sky there arose a gisl 1 ble sign of what had been done the ins finia ot of the coalition floated over hidu and greeted the american sun within n few hours houra after dawn or tillery began to move through long islands boulevards toward brooklyn north of the city tho the army began marching through the borough of the i bronx toward the harlem river before noon puns guns were posted along the harlem heights on university heights lit high bridge and down past the mouth of the harlem river through hell gato into the east river come came a motley fleet sound anti and river steamers ste amera captured nt at new haven and bridgeport wall sided bided freighters nud lighters side wheelers nud and screw propellers and a flotilla of motorboats motor boats the pick of tho the beautiful little navy of that filled nil all the sound harbors tills this fleet anchored in a long line below Blackw elim island close under the shore all the larger yes aiels had guns ou on their forward and upper decks As soon as the craft had bad swung to the tide tho the weapons wore were pointed at the city then tho the telephone elhone tel bell in the city liall called the mayor again the corps commander vom mander speaking from temporary Ilu arters in the abo university of new york buildings announced that be wished to send commissioners into the city to treat with the authorities for the terms of capitulation ile iio desired that the send an escort to meet them nt at tho lenox avenue bridge over the harlem arlem Il arrived in the city ball the commissioners ners presented a demand signed by the commander for unconditional surrender of the city tue the mayor and hla his advisers adv laera rend read it and turned to the th soldiers what cow cons this mean asked the mayor po pointing linting to a clause that called for the surrender of all fortifications with troops and munitions of war we possess no forti flen eions it means forts 11 IIa mllton amilton and wads worth on an the narrows answered the chief commissioner oui but those are united states property said tho the mayor we have no authority over them then I 1 should advise you to consult with the commandant of these places at once answered the commissioner their surrender la Is an indispensable condition in tho the terms of capitulation the mayor reached for tho the telephone stop all other business however important por tant taut he be said to the operator connect me with the commandant at port fort hamilton its hla conversation with that officer was brief ile he declines absolutely to surrender any part of the defenses or of other government property lie reported then sir air said the officer rising 1 regret to inform you that we shill shell the city we are authorized tu to tire ho you twenty four hours precisely it the end of that time we ve shall order lie he tiring to begin I 1 call your atlen ton ion to the fact that our 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