Show A 0 aw N I 1 lse I 1 ar 1 P A copyright 19 1 sp by byj J W muller all rights reserved rr ved A narrative Narra dve fact story based authoritatively on the inexorable mathematics of war what can de be done to oppose an invading army wah our actual present resources resource in regulars trained militia untrained titi citizens zens coast defenses field artillery and all other weapons of defense defenso CHAPTER XV SYNOPSIS owing to impending war gabnet the united states stat 9 by a coalition coa il tion of powers af u europe und find asia antho lie mobilization of our regular anil and volu volunteer er forces la Is ordered tit alio nations national au ith t ea a nd ind I 1 that list the HIP united states Is unprepared A buge fore foreign agn fleet of invest invasion 0 n Is reported miles lit in length th alio u united E alato t n ses navy loses ships in battle tho co coalition 11 altion leet fleet appeals oly oft 0 tho 1 0 now ung 1 land nd horizon and america b becomes e comes panic stricken tr icken A volunteer aviator scouting utina along thu cie atlantic coast discovers abo coalition fleet oft off new lic hadford Aford blass thirty of the eremya transports aie seen been near non I 1 island standing lit in toward alloca stand island tho the invaders take mock island non nan and Af marthas arthas vineyard and warn iorii tho population not to remlin they bombard with their warships the const coast of new brikland below capo cud cod foreign troops lind land on the american mainland tit in powerful numbers and transports protected by submarines and torpedo torp cilo boat destroyers llo ilo off hore with still more inore troops artillery ind horti homes 1 TI the a 0 rhode island coast til Is held by the e n e iny tho 71 a united states forts along the alio coast ind themselves too short handed to effectively attack the invaders they enough nien men our avla a are tendered lend cred useless by tho the superior perlor Bu number of tile tho air men er enemy emy ablat aviators ors ly fly over e eastern astern cities dropping warnings that the lie invading forces aro arc about to advance and tant civilians who iho eslit will bo be dealt with summarily artly our militia Is i found tu to bo be in it of disorganized deani lilla the enemy gains euina control ut uc the new york tork new haven and ami hartford ul id and nd places it a force of men in chope to mako maka hiro Is along the atlantic seaboard minor occur in in a desperate antuck began lit in a lense dense fok fog by the coalition fleet tile defenses of narragansett bay are flattered fiatt ered and flioy the fall the fatt enters entera tile tho ba baa and the nation Is in literally stunned the of fourteen new england farmers by the soki lers further furt lier Int lames public opinion the rho are anro pressing onward through new england against comparatively feeble opposition the rho mw tri w r ngian erv ii wow low up bridges and tear up railroad tracks in frantic of ct forts to stop tho the progress of the tha enemy dynamiting occurs everywhere bgern reprisals are aie by no ho chief of the foreigners city after city was met bet pi li flames A terrific bombardment of cities about nebout doston harbor occurs hull la Is destroy etl by fire the enemy lands forces nt at no hant ant after preparing tho the wo wa by a heavy lieal asnault with UK shells this action takes place qt at night while our forts put up a resist anco anti anil sinic fink various or of tho hostile war craft the pressure pres suro becomes to too 0 cicat and bloston Is surrendered the enemy on nn bounce s th tint t boston Is n now W to bo be ruled by tho headquarters a in rt of tile the foreign army A mass mana of several thousand men fro from new haven hartford anti and other now new england cities seize rifles from factories and trains and prepare to supplement the regulars in resisting tho attackers of it homes bonim fund and catt A apt eini train lri flit UK lit dp titi bloj into nt washing Was hint ton before in all lit next morn iniz tin nit new yoth nion wont went nt lit once to alif tit while house where they were received ly by the prea ident who A ill h nl lie not beell in bed yon have no ino doubt that they to make good their threat of bomb ardnie nt asked tile the president after their report then gentlemen thoro there Is ig only oil one ution nf alon for this government t to take ni fit li hpe and tit tin refrain of f nil 11 the past days elicio 1 ii nothing LIO elle that wu we calk ilo do tit ail hour litter later ill lie wires le to IN new ew york cleara cen rol I 1 by orders front from tile tha war tie de carried a 11 dispatch to commandants nt at fort hamilton and fort wadworth wad worth it ordered thera to surrender I 1 from botn his headquarters tho the enemy com mantler ordered detachments to go down tile tho harbor in loan ond occupy the alio captured defenses then ho to sent bent lila 1113 troops forward into tile HIP city anti and now flow the new yorkers who halt expected that their streets would lie he hooded flooded by u prent great were ot at the ease and simplicity with vitt which the city fell into military control in stead of brigades entering the city there were not even regiments troops troop of car carnary alry comp compatible atile of infantry slin sin gle machine gun detachments moving separately down separated avenues with bis bl intervals bi lawn them were nil all tho the forte foree that entered some soine boatload 4 of men inen and nr tillery passed down the river and landed in ill 11 rooklyn some to occupy the ati inny r yard and athens to re anfone the ill men 11 who ill lidid come lit in through long lon island bilut the he aminy remained outside hold ing ine frow the tit mund found atlie lit mid guarding tin ill hudson river and valleys against attack from the diree tion of albany the verg in charge of the men wh who 0 entered the city biked no do fines teotis 19 and required tin directions un UD hesitatingly farb led ell tali til forre force to tile point that he wonted within two hours houra now new york voik war wholly in the hands of the soldiers boix noix nobody aly had thought of it before now till nil nt at once it was aar i plighted it albed then people ople 0 or 1 new mew boric to learn tiow flow easy it was to control file lip cites whole life civic chic find commercial A Abat tallon of infantry occupied the ovand central terminal another bat 1 tallon I lion took the great pennsylvania let minni with ft ath its tut tunnels inels to new jersey and tong LOUR island de appeared cd nt at the twenty liard street mid and forty second street ferries over tile tho hudson river liver and by hint one seizure controlled nil all i with the west from up tit town ton TIP tile occupation of half it dozen other hudson river rall rond ferries downtown annl of ill the hudson bernit nil nal tube atoni Ht oni completed tile entire i of nil the lie vitya railroad tr adfle in ill every ur dio dietl tl in was a tile the control of its communications men appe aired nt the two i kiriel aleal and nt fit tin the linne building within half nil liona they lind find every trunk line of wires in thir their th ir hands and could strike tile i ity lit fit will nil it was still easier to control the ho city fl bioni om it military 1 point 0 int of view the i who ilio lind expected to see their servet 4 by cal iliou on till liers bers did lit not tit it birst comprehend why there vere nv lividly lini aly any of these to bo be nevii while Inac little kiln gun detachments 1 and disappeared na as soon a as they pot got well ull into tile town only did the citizens discover that their big sprawling metropolis was be 10 iny ing field subject liy by n very simple util loution of tile cites fea him denture hns the tie skyscraper to tile oyo eye of tile soldier those high build inga were nothing noth liiK so much na as inviting n nd magnificent eminences for contrell con troll till if g the street balleys and their lotion below pour four men with a machine lne gun and of ammunition in one of these stone arld steel summits could control more area than half n dozen henry fjeld run gun Nit posted lit in the streets ronld emild command cheso sentinel witte hem were nf aloof and na as sure i 1 I fair they rould could neither be raghed ni lied by n mob or sniped from concealment from the tot top of the lie woolworth rth build log in two of the alho guns pointed down into ilio adway turned southward they could sweep tho the town as far n na the glittery battery Bit tery eastward they rain their steel jacketed bullets luto into the river arout streets sheets and over the two lower suspension britt baldea that cross the cist river northward they hey had broadway ns its far us as canal street under their tire fire they were supplemented by a gun RU on tot top of the great municipal building it held n good part of the crow crowded tied tenement house district of the lower bat bast tilde under its zone 0 alre notably tile the doubtful section of cherry street llad other aarens known to the police on oil the hie tall mil towers of tile suspension bridges themselves ot oilier her detach 1 ments with a gun each the churches urchea cb w were ere not forgotten by the soldiers the graceful steeple of orace church chur cli stand ing tit lit nu an acute angle of so that it can b be seen from far down town hall had been before mens eyes so long lone that they hid had ceased alit almost to into hote Us its soft beauty beu ity now they looked at it with it neyr and acute perception for its ita steeple held bield a gun gulf that pointed down domi 11 roadway hose dhove southern zone lone of hie fire would just juit about reach to where the ho northern zone of iro fire from the wool worth building would end clid trinity too lind had a 11 gun in its tower pointing down wall streel from ornee church northward to thirty fourth street runs ginis un the flatiron build I 1 ins ng could reach tiny important or tiny place where dangerous danKer danger oui crowds inight conceivably form this etui enil neace controlled both bl adison lson and squares the tower of madison square garden Oi irdon near by was waa III the knew that wherever they might move they were within the range ranee of cannon tint were loaded and bently their citizens committee ant alij their officials worked under runa guns nv ev pry foot of their grent white way could bo be changed into a way of death nt lit ft moments notice tiCe small need was ft us there in new york city of the many placards and noti celi warning the people against disorder hory mans oe eye was ivas on oil every other cumi tumi and had one plotted mischief or reix rebellion chun there romild have haie been be en a hun bun dred witnesses ready read to suppress BUp press him to betray to prevent those steel devils in the city towers from gi ettIng death loose lit in tle the streets street sl CHAPTER XVI our laws law Surp OT until tho iho city of new york N NOT actually was surrendered did the people of the middle and far fai west become startled into a really acute I 1 pac eption of tho the catastrophe that had fallen ou on the whole country they were flery with patriot ism nud enker and though they were giving not only lavishly put but extras 04 1 I 1 1 SZ AL M P X A pt 1 Q ni 4 M nt 4 s km 4 4 Z 11 11 THE IE NAVY OFF PANAMA COULD ONLY WAIT AND WATCH OWING TO THE STRONG DEFENDING GUNS ot 0 westill anil and men inen they ivere etere free unconquered and el ed they had soon no invader with a suddenly freshened realization of the of tho the country they had at balum tho the conviction convict lon that there was little danger that any foe to possibly could reach tb ibin tu from tho the atlantic their could po go and enter through their own ports unimpeded for haip hn pilly in this crisis there was no danger threatening from across the c they needed not to fear that ilat they would bo be taken in the back therefore though khoii 1 l the surrender or poston boston imd had I 1 them herri it had not i vil 1 lhea grent inland coun try clu ajr to tile bellef that the army is fild 10 soi during tile tho ene cne mys slow movement through at ll 11 II 11 Ilia llev york tho people of the west remained impair ed by that hope ns as men in tile past ages stricken dumb by a darkened h P anven and a smoking mountain still lung clung c to the belief that a kindly minilie would interpose to save them though rho earth of their market places was trembling under their feet feel that spiritual self defense with which men armor themselves against inevitable fates had bad not riven given way un ull tit til the administration announced the surrender of the city of new york and its two grent great forts with tho the statement tho president assumes full cespon sivility lity after a careful examination of the situation lit in person lie he issued orders as commander in chief of the armed forces of the united states that t lie army in tho the field should offer no opposition then the alio west began to fear with n great fear that bat its pacific coast ans io not safe after all it dijt up ap palled that nil an enemy so will anil successful confronting i so BO futile might succeed in bre bi oiLin all I 1 9 the defenses of the canni it ii easily ns As lie he had broken the defenses of the atlantic but tho the panama biml ci nal was being held beld tile tho united states fleet having failed to prevent present the hostile landing on oil tho the now new england coast hid burned tit nt once to defend the one vital spot tint that it could protect even against superior numbers tint that was the caribbean en dance to the canal it raced crnec d there under forced draft it and destroyed till nn inferior force of and battle battleships tint that the enemy had ali re for blockade again it was the foe forced to itself 11 against attack on oil his bis transports or the new england coast hall had held all his bis powerful ships north of the ameri 11 un all fleet the weaker bloo linders tit in t the he south facing guns of superior range ships of superior speed and su perlor volume of gun tire ore went down to destruction without oven even tho the bath atis s faction of biting hard bard as they died dil ad the panama defenses defens ea were perfect this precious possession was one american possession nt at least that could be held to the last its guns wore were fully installed it had ammunition its range finding systems and its iti syi terns of ore fire control were complete conil to without tho the navy it too would have been sorely weak in nun men and would have been open like Anie americas ricas conal neutal defenses to attack from tile aliu land allut with tho the naval forces it was able to hold out tho the navy was really ready to throw men ashore to meet any attempt 1 at landings along the coast cooil the nas tor boats and destroyers crept to sea so in the night and guarded till all weak seik places tho rho american sub marilles ft with ath a safe harbor for it a base corked w under ideal submarine conditions when the hostile nay freed from the task or of protecting its tir urney dirtily tily at last appeared lit in force off the Is isthmus thinus it dared not institute anything an tiling like a close blockade it dared not even venture lit in to bout bard there were nero sixteen inch glins at panama it was an object lesson for the united teil states exactly thus had there been nil an army to protect them the atlantic const coast defenses could haro hare defied any attempt front from tho sen to force a harbor I 1 I 1 I 1 harbar the enemy navy bavi overwhelming over helming nil ng it was could do nothing except to walt halt and w watch atch to bo continued |