Show aw 1 IWA 0 all d copyright 1915 fay by J W mur muller all rights reserved A narrative fact story based authoritatively on the he inexorable mathematics of war W what hat can be done to oppose an invading army armi with our actual present resources in regulars trained militia untrained citizens coast defenses field artillery and all other weapons of defense APTER XVI SYNOPSIS owing to impending war against the tha united states by a coalition 0 of powers of europe and asia tl tio 0 mobilization of our regular and volunteer tones forces la Is ordered mie national authorities and that the HIP united states la is tto tully unprepared A huge hubo foreign fleet of invasion la is reported miles in length tho the united miles navy loses ships in battle the coalition fleet bleet appears oft tho new vm una land horizon and america beco me panic stricken A volunteer aviator scouting along thu Atlar atlantic itla coast it abo coall coalition tIon fleet off new dedford masa blass thirty of the transports are seen been near dear nantucket island tit anding in toward kloct island the invaders tako take block island nan anil and marthas Mart lias vineyard orid wani tho the po motion not 1101 to resist they bombard with their worships tho the co coant t of new below cove cape cod Fore firn troops land on tho american mainland in powerful powei ful numbers and transports protected by submarines and torpedo boat destroyers lie off shore with still more troops ar tHery and horses the rhode island c tonet const Is bold lielie by tim tho enemy tho united un i tw states forts along tho oal coast find themselves them selves too short handed to effectively attack the invaders they enough nien men our aviators avlo tora are rendered almori useless us elotis by b tho superior perlor yu number of the air men enemy aviators fly over eastern cities dropping warnings thit the invading forces are rubout to advance ond and that civilians who resist will lo be dealt with summarily our Is found to be ba in a tate of dem sl the th enemy gains control of u the new hew torki tork new haven and hartford Hait ford rali railroad road and places it force of men in shape to mako inroads along the atlantic seaboard minor alinor engagements occur in in a desperate attack began in a debrief fog by the coalition fleet the de of narragansett bay are ara shattered and an the they fall the enemy s fleet enters tho the ba bay and the nation to la literally stunned the killing of fourteen new nev I 1 angland fa carmera amers by tho the enemy xv further In flames publia opinion tho in invaders va ders are pressing onward through N new angland ncr cur st at comparatively feeble cw opposition position fim trew taw blow aj up balges and tear up railroad tracks in frantic efforts to stop atop tho the progress prop IBS of t the enemy dynamiting recurs everywhere e stern 8 arn re are commanded by the chief of tho tha foreign foreigners ere city after city was waa set get in flames A terrific terredo bombardment of cities about boston harbor occurs hull Is destroyed by ire fire the enemy lands forces s a at I 1 na hant after pr preparing e paying the way by n heavy assault with big shells this action takes place placa at night while our forts forte put up a gallant callant besst once anco find and sink gink various of the tha hostile war craft the pressure irea pres guro suro becomes too loo great and boston Is surrendered rendered ui the enemy an bounce nou nce th 1 boston Is now no to bo be ruled by the tha headquarters staff of tho tie foreign army A mass maas of several thousand men from new haven hartford and other new england r cities selio seize rifles rides frol factories and trains and prepare t supplement the regulars in resisting the attackers of tl chomoa and cluen the now news of Pa pajamas panamas was ins tho the first und and only KOI good news that had been given to the country sincel the e declaration dec of war 1 the lie relief that hat it gave was so great that tho the eople people received almost with etli equanimity the news which followed that word had find come from spies of the arrival of moro more transports tron in ili boston harbor and nor iett bay forces estimated nt at varying from to more mon moll S 0 soon titter this landing had boen been ne nc complis hed cavalry and light nr tl llory moved norths northward aril through Verni vermont ont they seized and occupied lit in fori force ebel lows lotts falls find the white river wells iziver and st junctions of the vermont this cut tit he last communication of new mcw angland with nl tie tl e united states it gave gae tb the luvader absolute commend of the st lake champlain Champl alti rall mil road the central vermont tho the maine central Centi at the boston and malno maine and the branch maine new hampshire find vermont were in his bla power like the rest rent of new eing land blockaded from the son sen and cut oft off from railroad connection with the interior they were subjugated even cen without the unfold lim of forces that now nov beenu ili their area the few fett lilg hig cities of the three states could offer no resistance reAl stance within a fw days the conquest of nil all new england was coni lote not a word nid clime came out of if it to tin flit rest of the unit cd 0 states slates the city alt of new york was na equally settled nothing was permit ted to pass out of the gagged and rot tonii the messages that storm ed cd at it aro delhi red to tensors censors who did what alwy plea ed cd with them find pa parsed ased practically none to the hie persons persona for whom they had been destined there had bat bien been nn an ot licin notice on tho the front of nil the new york spa pern tin on the llie morning after the occupation ALL assemblages nn it GATTI ON ann STRICTLY ry ORDER or OF THE MILITARY s 0 V 1111 ENT there was no threat as to penalty for infraction none was os edu e du the t yi y i nuns guns lu ili all the towers and sk sc raVers v i ie warning the chati of boston nud find all new ne england were cow co rolled rollel nud edited by military censors they were permitted pel milled to tell their render nothing of this utter ignorance tn lit illch hach the multi t 11 wio kept rando more help 1044 ahn it did ever the aults that watch ud d them everywhere it was a n city surrounded 1 perpetual iv ay confronted and oppressed by the Ilin unknown known the irbe voll PU of secrecy and at lence liia was only when vilen newspapers or placards printed voino new procla w loii in fori for ual verbiage the 1 I lie first arst one to be issued had bad pro ell lined the alio und and tile thi titu I 1 J cioll of it in government it hinl had that tho civil author tl hid had been empowered und and ordered to continue their with the satiation wid participation of the tary government that 1 nil I civil 11 nn uj 1 laws in fit effect t tn demanded demont led by mill full tary till 1 iltis hut but under this on emetil anin a hent hentley led LAWS on and otter this date the following classes of laws awa are 1 I 1 the tight to bear arms ui ms 2 the of out u frage 3 vie right of assemblage 4 the right to publish newspapers or arcu late other matter 1 atho l alio tight right to quit occupied territory or OP travel freely in sarae another announcement chrit struck noine home duricr the people uw saw its it real enell menning 1 ing under iti IN vr orling ans vio municipal and other civil eria nl criminal laws OH no administered by ane civil au lea les anre for tho the benefit and protection of the el civilian villan population their conten continued enforcement la not for the protection or control of officers and soldie BOld lera rii of the occupying army arm who aro subject to the rules rulea bt bf wor war abild amenable only to their own military government A few days after the surrender people iloni the water front noticed a great movement of the bla full aler line and sound steam bo bolever wever were ubi N lo in g gucas it pretty clearly what this movement of troops and heavy artillery meant there was nothing in the lower harbor Iii ibor that possibly could demand weinand such force except one place abe forts forta ou on sandy hook the last remaining harbor de felise that still was under the alnert can ong lag solitary though it was so no long as it intact it forbade the entrance of new york harbor to any ho stile vessel there had bud been wonder before be ba cause the enemy commander lind had not dern demanded the be mur surrender render of the saudy sandy hook defenses under unac r threat of bombarding the city us tie he had demanded doni and forced the surrender of ports forts hamilton tind find wadsworth Il lecause sandy hook la Is not within tho the city ni jui the lie other two forts forta were vere wils ua tin th ut at which the cites arrick d after considering the rules rule 3 governing vernIng fo ni fiction the vitt plainly it is adhering carefully to nil aill the accepted rules of war dy by doing su AU he be can and doca hold us to account rigorously under the same rules rulea this li 14 to him for despite all their apparent in favor of it con conquers querI territory the rules rifles of war are made after oil all to facilitate war it wets was impossible to warn the commander tit nt sandy look hook private service over oer the telephone and telegraph systems was ana suspended entirely the ore alarm system was operated under the control of soldiers sold lera in police sst a colonel of car cavalry alry irnise countersign was necessary for every order issued by the police commissioner this was a stern officer who held bela the police force in a hard masterful hand the men inen were accountable more than ever for strict enforcement of all 1111 anwa but they were subject also to summary control by every military of fleer even guards and posts of private soldiers had sonie some authority over them thero There many funny dully dally expert ances and sights in their streets that served erred to anake make tho the people tractable actable tr s I 1 ito t r t V A NEW ENGLAND WAS BLOCKADED FROM THE SEA BY THE FLEE FOREIGN boes on cry moved up the alv aher r towi iril yonkers lit in long Imo procession cession with some steamships seized tit nt the wharves the next day they came down the river they were full or of trompa some of the vessels casela towed rall rodd floats with tint flat mrs on which were wera lashed cannon so lilg big that even from tho the shore tile the cn could per perveldo velvo their unusual size other oilier craft towed strings of scon a and still towed floating S tit aliu flotilla passed dorn dorm tho the upper buy bay but it did not RO go out through tile narrows it disappeared disappear el in tho kisr row waterway of the ho kill von kull kail tint that wind andi between staten isi ilind id and the ilind of new jersey nn and connects with the lower inner harbor through maritan bay the story of the mysterious t spread spend sp end quickly through it ft city who alme dij lack of mode its 10 ampre hei henrice ilc mi dosity only the morr hn robbed of its ta news alid nid bulletin berv ice the aple p opec without any con selous plan aid a newit pervice sen ice of their own they lind fallen back on tho the primitive method of circulating in formation from man to 0 o ann the committee and the city but few things were i so powerful as tho dally spectacle of their police yielding sullen bullon but complete obedience it Is unlawful to disobey ordera order aLir civen by our irmy this short regulation covered ft a great deal it tied the police and tie file citizens hand and foot on 04 sandy fifteen billea down the harbor from the battery there were being demonstrated the inexorable of war that lint inid hittl been nt at nt at bos ton nt forts schuyler cr nud cud slocum in westchester and nt at fort totten on iong island fort li ancock on annily hook almost to hlll attack from be tap son artt ris being reduced from the hnud vie fort commander hod ds pored his men la in the most position lio isible and they mado the ho narrow anly neck of abu hook that leil from froin tho bo mainland ma hiland to their forton forti fl a imas that no force however of death would attack hait hastily tIly ilard wire and great plind naad mounds are guns and big goil guidi them made acm no despicable but tho the americans numbered CO to I 1 n I 1 C S where the enemy numbered nii 60 feglee urs me anie ardef lean icon mobile guns numbered pairs calra where the enemy i artillery tillery nr was counted by cozens the steel mass of fort that could protect harbor aud and city could not protect itself tho the motley flotilla eberg ng jig into Ita ritan buy bay landed its ha men n the lie now new jersey shore at keyport side or of the lower harbor and behind andy hook the defenses had not won pen devised or built to withstand at tick from their own bay the great filed guns gung find and the steel mortars were tenderous ton ion derous they were ino mounted tinted on engines equally ponderous whose bases were firmly anchored to in on moncrete crete and steel these mammoths mam moths were not things that could be swung around to alt all points of the compass rhoy rhey were set in their solid beds tor for he be one purpose of fighting things out t eca the commander had bad succeeded with leip erato labor by blasting away con rote em placements and facin facings gm in timing two of his big gung around to ice the land and protect the open back of the fort dot but the giant steel bacel guns with their 1000 pound projectiles that could fight ton battleships tle ships could not fight little two leg ced bcd men they might by chance or fortune find and destroy one of the lege guns gulis that were attacking them nut but if they missed a gun and fell merely among soldiers they would be ic arcely more murderous than a little held field gun gain that fires bursting charges of shrapnel CHAPTER VII the enemy has H Us U enemy did not try to rush ane the works at sandy ile iio ind ad time and means and did ot need to sacrifice men to the of tho the atlantic and nave sink highlands that bat ascend so strangely out of tho the sea and out of the flat ant sea country there lie he lifted guns of great caliber lie placed guns in cover behind every undulation when ho had bait phial nit all these weapons with fid precision they began to ore none of the mobile artillery installed for the defense of the fort against land attack could reach the Inva invaders invaded dem heavier artillery with any hope of effect the men in the defenses cowering corring under bomb proofs and in pits held out for a day and a night they held out for another day any then there was nothing left to defend dismounted and broken their armament was wai do d st royed the survivors surrendered when the eremya cavalry rushed th tb ruined works now york city did not know that the sandy alook defenses bad baileu till three light enemy cruisers appeared lu the upper bay and steamed through the east river to the navy nary yard then tho the city knew that its harbor was open abo army viat that took sandy bandy hook did not return n turn to new york the flotilla tl luok the troops and their light artiller artl llera 3 aboard at the atlantic highlands cud and steamed back through raritan bay throng he narrow sound behind sint eu en bolc uj aud and into newark bay nere other boatic boat met it with cavalry nud cud motor troops from yonkers troops landed at both sides of thi the entrance to the bay taking Bay bononno onlia and with their oil ell re and tanks and their ship yards then the flotilla moved up the bay and put great bodies of soldiers of all alms ashore at the great factory town of newark A big city and a dill cult city to control it kept the commanders occupied for three days before licy hey had bad made their footing good but it was an admirable and a vastly valuable base from it the troops troop spread pread out and took nut 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