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Show UNITED STATES INVADED AND HUMILIATED. A writer in an Eastern magazine predicts war with Germany within six years and presents an imaginary attack at-tack in which the Germans gain landing for 150,000 troops and within three days capture New York City. The story is not so far-fetched as to be other than interesting, and we quote from it as follows "The crash came. It was terrific. Scores of laborers working near the i Gatun locks were killed instantly Six hundred tons of riynamite. secreted lin the hold of n German merchantmnn, had been exploded as th reeael passed through the lackSt and ten thousand tons of Portland cement had I .sunk in the tangled iron wreck, to I form a huge blockading mass of solid rock on the floor of the narrow pas-sage. pas-sage. Our fleet was in the Pacific. 'War had been declared by Ger many against the United States on the dav the canal was wrecked, and German Ger-man transports, loaded with troops and convoyed b a fleet of battle-ships, battle-ships, were known to be on high seas, headed for American shores. t about noon rn May 21, LMli (.enernl Leonard Wood, in command of the eastern army, placed New York City under martial law. On the mom ing of May 12. the German fleer plowed through the smooth seas to the south of Montauk Point. Only the K-2 was here to meet the German invasion one lone submarine against a mighty fleet. "In this Invading expedition Germany Ger-many had successfully landed on the shores of Long Island l.'.OtiOO hilly equipped fighting men The next week was rwi of deep humihaiion for the American people Their great fleet and their great ciuial, which had cost them so many hundreds of millions milli-ons and were supposed to guarantee the aafetv of their coasts, had failed them In this hour of peril. "Meanwhile, the Germans were marching along Motor Parkway toward to-ward New York Clt with an army of 150,000 acainst which General Wood. by Incredible efforts was able to on-poae on-poae a badl organized, inharmonious forco of 30,000 The combined American Ameri-can forces went into action with only onp hundred and fifty pieces of artillery artil-lery against four hundred pieces that the Germans bronchi ("in Ma: 80, von lfindenburg established es-tablished his headquarters at Forest Hills. In the morning General Wood forces continued to retreal On May 22, Genera Wood wai drives bach to his original line of defenses from Fort Totten to Valley Stream, where he now prepared to make last stand to save Brooklxn On Ma 28, under un-der cover of his heavy siege-guns, von llindenhurg threw forward his veterans veter-ans In terrific massed attacks All day the battle raced the hattle of Brooklyn With house-to-house fighting fight-ing and repeated baonet charges And at n'ght the invaders, outnumbering outnum-bering the Americans five to one. were everywhere victorious. At mid-nlclit mid-nlclit on HIikdenburg standing on the steps of Borough hall, with the Kai-Bi Kai-Bi r'f youngest son at his elbow, de-el: de-el: red Brooklyn a German municipality, munici-pality, "On May 24 the situation of New York Cit was seen to be desnerat P night $800,000,000 had started west from the Federal Reserve and other creat New York banks. The next morning Chicago was the financial capital of America." The foregoing Is intended to emphasize em-phasize America's unpreparedness for war There is no longer any doubt that had the Germans, in last July, declared war against the United States instead of against the allies, they, by surprise attack arranged for before the declaration, could have landed a force on the east coast of the United States large enough to have overrun .the Hastern States and have placed New York under the range of their mighty howitzers But that peril, if it ever existed, has passed. It will be years after the present war, even if victorious, before the Kaisers army shall have sufficiently suffi-ciently recovered from the terrible havoc of the conflict, to become a serious menace to the United States. e do not know that the Kaiser ever will become our enemy, but such an eventuality it Is well to consider because be-cause the present European war proves that the das of war have not pa&sed and that nations today friendo, tomorrow may be vicious enemies. The United States should prepare not only lor war against Germany, but against Great Britain or any other nation na-tion which is strong enough to invade in-vade our shores, but the preparations should not begin until the lessons of todays conflict aie fully understood and analyzed, and then, if greater military strength be deemed necessary, neces-sary, the effort should be to obtain that end without the establishing of a great standing army What this countrv needs is 100,000 trained military leaders, each one capable ca-pable of commanding a company, battalion, bat-talion, regiment, division, corps or army; then 3.000,000 rifles of the most improved make; guns equal or superior su-perior to the best in Europe; ammu nltion in abundance; an aviation corps; a submarine fleet; torpedoes, etc, and some well worked out system sys-tem whereby ihc average citizen in case of sudden attack on this coun try, becomes part of a mighty army , with his place of mobilization designated desig-nated in advance, where equipment would be at hand c have faith In our citizen soldier but wo distrust a creat standing army. |
