Ross Gazette 24th December 1914 - Page 6
Ross Gazette 24th December 1914 - Page 6
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| Date | 24/12/1914 |
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
| Area | Ross Gazette |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 24th December 1914 |
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ESTABLISHED 1813 . THE ROSS GAZETTE THURSDAY , WILLIAM PULLING & CO . , EF DISTILLERS , Wine and Spirit Merchants , Bonded Warehousemen And OIDER MAKERS , East - street , 48 , Broad - street , and Bath - street , HEREFORD . AND HIGH - STREET , ROSS . Foreign Wines and Spirits imported direct , under Bond , from Country of Production to their Bonded Stores , East - street . DISTILLERS , FOR 80 YEARS , OF PULLING'S PURE HEREFORD GIN . Manufacturers of all kinds of Finest Quality British Liqueurs and Cordial Retail and Trade Lists Post Free on application . Goods Carriage Paid to any Railway Station Finest Special Reserve Whiskey , 50 / - per dozen . Sound Claret from 11 / - per dozen Sole Consignees of TIRANT and do.'S CHAMPAGNE , at 56 / - and 68 / ; per dosen . All other Champagnes at Lowest Pricos [ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED . ] BY H. G. WELLS Author of " Kipps , " " The Time Machine , " " The War of the Worlds , " " The Invisible Man , " " In the Days of the Comet , " & c . CHAPTER XXVII . fellows through the danger zone from the dis- THE WAR IN THE AIR , proximity to the city masses . At that descent tant guns smoothly and rapidly to a safe all the cars in the streets stopped with dra- matic suddenness , and all the lights that had been coming on in the streets and houses went out again . For the City Hall had awakened and was conferring by telephone with the Federal command and taking mea- sures for defence . The City Hall was asking for airships , refusing to surrender as Wash- ington advised , and developing into a centre of intense emotion , of hectic activity . Every where and hastily the police began to clear the assembled crowds . " Go to your homes , " they said ; and the word was passed from " There's going to be through the city , and men hurrying in the un- trouble . " A chill of apprehension ran wonted darkness across City Hall Park and Union Square came upon the dim forms of soldiers and guns , and were challenged and sent back . In half an hour New York had passed from serene sunset and gaping ad- The German Fleet reached New York in Ocean Grove and Long advance of the news of the American naval disaster . It reached New York in the late afternoon and was first seen by watchers at to mouth Branch coming swiftly out of the southward sea and going away to the north - west . The flagship passed almost vertically over the Sandy Hook ob- servation station , rising rapidly as it did so , and in a few minutes all New York was vibrating to the Staten Island guns . Several of these guns , and especially that at Giffords and the one on Beacon Hill above Matawan , were remarkably well handled . The former , at a distance of five miles , and with an elevation of six thousand feet , sent at shell to burst so close to the Vaterland that a pane of the Prince's forward window was This sudden explo- smashed by a fragment . sion made Bert tuck in his head with the celerity of a startled tortoise . The whole air- fleet immediately went up steeply to a height of about twelve thousand feet , and at that level passed unscathed over the ineffectual guns . The airships lined out as they moved for ward into the form of a flattened V , with its apex towards the city , and with the flagship going highest at the apex . The two ends of the passed over Plumfield and Jamaica Bay respectively , and the Prince directed his course little to the east of the Narrows , soared over the Upper Bay , and came to rest above Jersey city in a position that domi nated lower New York . There the monsters hung , large and wonderful in the evening light , serenely regardless of the occasional rocket explosions and flashing shell - bursts in the lower air . ways and " It beat , " they declared , " the newspapers . " And from above , many of the occupants of the airships stared with an equal curiosity . No city in the world was ever so finely placed as New York , so magnificently cut up by sea and bluff and river , so admirably disposed to display the tall effects of buildings , the com- plex immensities of bridges and mono - rail- feats of engineering . London , Paris , Berlin , were shapeless , low agglomera tions beside it . Its port reached to its heart like Venice , and , like Venice , it was obvious , dramatic , and proud . Seen from above it was alive with crawling trains and cars , and at a thousand points it was already breaking into quivering light . New York was altogether at its best that evening , its splendid best . " Gaw ! What a place ! said Bert . It was so great , and in its collective effect so pacifically magnificent , that to make war upon it seemed incongruous beyond measure , like laying siege to the National Gallery or attacking respectable people in an hotel " din- ing - room with battle - axe and mail . It was in its entirety so large , so complex , so delicately immense , that to bring it to the issue of war- fare was like driving a crowbar into the mechanism of a clock . And the fish - like , shoal of great airships hovering light and sunlit above , filling the sky , seemed equally remote from the ugly forcefulness of war . To Kurt , to Smallways , to I know not how many more . of the people in the air - fleet came the dis- tinctest apprehension of these incompatibili- ties . But in the head of the Prince Karl Albert were the vapours of romance : he was mouth , miration to a troubled and threatening twilight . The first loss of life occurred in the panic rush from Brooklyn Bridge as the airship approached it . With the cessation of the traffic an unusual stillness came upon New York , and the dis turbing concussions of the futile defending guns on the hills about grew more and more audible . At last these ceased also . A pause of further negotiation followed . People sat in darkness , sought counsel from telephones that were dumb . Then into the expectant hush came a great crash and uproar , the breaking down of the Brooklyn Bridge , the rifle fire from the Navy Yard , and the burst ing of bombs in Wall Street and City Hall . New York as a whole could do nothing , could understand nothing . New York in the dark- ness peered and listened to these distant sounds until presently they died away as sud- denly as they had begun . " What could be happening ? ' They asked it in vain . A long vague period intervened , and people looking out of the windows of upper rooms discovered the dark hulls of German airships , gliding slowly and noiselessly , quite close at hand . Then quietly the electric lights came on again , and an uproar of noctural news- vendors began in the streets . The units of that vast and varied popula- tion bought and learnt what had happened ; there had been a fight and New York had hoisted the white flag .... CHAPTER XXVIII . able consequence on the other . tion . " We have surrendered ! " came later ; " in us America is defeated . " Then they be- gan to burn and tingle . The newspapers which were issued about one in the morning contained no particulars DECEMBER 24 , 1014 . re- tossing CHAPTER XXX . A the " We have been betrayed ] " Men took thai crowds and clusters upon the roofs and in in the arming and flag - hoisting and excité- up everywhere , it passed from mouth to the streets ; then as they soared the details ment of that afternoon . mouth , at every street corner under the pal would shrink , the sides of streets draw to- ing lights of dawn orators stood unchecked , gether , the view widen , the people cease to calling upon the spirit of America to arise be significant . At the highest the effect was that of a con- The disintegrating truce gave place to a one who heard . To Bert , listening Ave hun dave relief map ; Bert saw the dark and definite general breach with the assassination dred feet above , it seemed that the city , crowded land everywhere intersected by shin of the Wetterhorn - for that is the only pos which had at first produced only confused ing waters , saw the Hudson River like asible word for the act - about Union Square , hoises , was now humming like a hive of bees spear of silver , and Lower Island Sound like and not a mile away from the exemplary ruins of very angry been . a shield . Even to Bert's unphilosophical mind of City Hall . This occurred late in the after- After the smashing of the City Hall and the contrast of city below and fleet above noon , between five and six . By that time the Post - Office , the white flag had been hoisted pointed an opposition , the opposition of the weather had changed very much for the from tower of the old Park Row Building , adventurous American's tradition and charac- worse , and the operations of the airships and thither had gone Mayor O'Hagen , urged ter with German order and discipline . Below , were embarrassed by the necessity they were thither indeed by the terror - stricken property the immense buildings , tremendous and fine under of keeping head on to the guests . owners of lower New York , to negotiate the as they were , seemed like the giant trees of series of squalls , with hail and thunder , fol- capitulation with Von Winterfeld . The jungle fighting for life ; their picturesque lowed one another from the south by south- Vaterland having dropped the secretary by a magnificence was as planless as the chances east , and in order to avoid these as much as rope ladder , remained hovering , circling very of orag and gorge , their casualty enhanced possible their air - fleet came low over the slowly above the great buildings , old and by the smoke and confusion of still unsub houses , diminishing its range of observation new , that clustered round City Hall Park , dued and spreading conflagrations . In the and exposing itself to a rifle attack . while the Helmhols , which had done the sky soared the German airships like beings Overnight there had been a gun placed in It had never been mounted , fighting there , rose overhead to a height of in a different , entirely more orderly world , Union Square . perhaps two thousand feet . So Bert had all oriented to the same angle of the horizon , much less fired , and in the darkness after the near view of all that occurred in that central uniform in build and appearance , moving a surrender it was taken with arches of place . The City Hall and Court House , the ourately with one purpose as a pack of put out of the way under the arches of the Post - Office and a mass of buildings on the wolves will move , distributed with the most great Dexter building . Here late in west side of Broadway , had been badly precise and effectual co - operation . morning it was remarked by a number of damaged , and the three former were a heap It dawned upon Bert that hardly a third of and mount it inside the upper floors of the patriotic spirits . They set to work to hoist of blackened ruins . In the case of the first the fleet was visible . The others had gone two the loss of life had not been considerable , upon errands he could not imagine , beyond place , They made , in fact , a masked battery but a great multitude of workers , including the compass of that great circle of earth and behind the decorous office blinds , and there many girls and women , had been caught in sky . He wondered , but there was no one to lay in wait as simply excited as children , the destruction of the Post - Office , and a little ask . As the day wore on , about a dozen until at last the stem of the luckless Wetter- army of volunteers with white badges entered reappeared in the east with their stores horn appeared , beating and rolling at quarter behind the firemen , bringing out the after plemished from the fictilla and towing a num - speed over the recently reconstructed pinna- fully charred , and carrying them into the big the weather thickened , driving clouds still living bodies , for the most part fright ber of drachenflieger . Towards afternoon ap Monson building close at hand .. Everywhere peared in the south - west and ran together the busy firemen were directing their bright and seemed to engender more clouds , and streams of water upon the smouldering the wind came round into that quarter and masses : their hose lay about the square , and blew stronger . Towards the evening the wind long cordons of police held back the gather became a gale into which the now ing black masses of people , chiefly from the airships had to beat . east side , from these central activities . In violent and extraordinary contrast with this scene of destruction , close at hand were the huge newspaper establishments of Park Row . They were all alight and working they had not been abandoned even while the actual bomb throwing was going on , and now staff and presses were vehemently active getting out the story , the immense and dreadful story of the night , developing com . ment and , in most cases , spreading the idea of resistance under the very noses of the air ships . For a long time Bert could not imagine what these callously active offices could be , then he detected the noise of . the presses and emitted his " Gaw ! " Beyond these newspaper buildings again , and partially hidden by the arches of the old Elevated Railway of New York ( long since converted mono - rail ) , there was another cordon of police and a sort of en campment of ambulances and doctors , busy with the dead and wounded who had been killed early in the night by the panic upon Brooklyn Bridge . All this he saw in the per spectives of a bird's - eye view , as things hap pening in a big irregular - shaped pit below him , between cliffs of high building . North ward he looked along the steep cafion of Broadway , down whose length at intervals excited crowds were assembling about speakers ; and when he lifted his eyes he saw chimneys and the cable - stacks and root spaces of New York , and everywhere now over these the watching , debating people clustered , except where the fires raged and the jets of water flew . Everywhere , too , were flagstaffs devoid of flags ; one white sheet drooped and flapped and drooped again over the Park Row buildings . And upon the lurid lights , the festering movement and in- tense shadows of this strange scene , there was breaking now the cold , impartial dawn . and outeries . into CHAPTER XXIX . New York had risen out of the blue indistinct- He had watched hour after hour since first With the daylight he ness of the landfall . experienced an intolerable fatigue . He lifted weary eyes to the pink flush in of the terms upon which New York had the sky , yawned immensely , and crawled yielded - nor did they give any intimation of back whispering to himself across the cabin the quality of the brief conflict that had pre- to the locker . ceded the capitulation . He did not so much lie down The later issues re- medied these deficiencies . There came upon that as fall upon it , and instantly the explicit statement of the agreement to victual come asleep . There , hours after , sprawling undignified the German airships , to supply the comple and sleeping profoundly , Kurt found him , a ment of explosives to replace those employed very image of the democratic mind con- in the fight and in the destruction of the fronted with the problems of a time too com- North Atlantic Fleet , to pay the enormous plex for its apprehension . His face was pale ransom of forty million dollars , and to sur and indifferent , his mouth wide open , and he render the flotilla in the East River . There snored . He snored disagreeably . came , too , longer and longer descriptions of the smashing up of the City Hall and the Navy Yard , and people began to realise mild distaste . Then he kicked his ankle . Kurt regarded him for a moment with " and lie down decent . " " Wake up ! " he said to Smallways ' stare , All day the Prince was negotiating with Washington , while his detached scouts sought far and wide over the Eastern States for any thing resembling an aeronautic park . A squad ron of twenty airships detached overnight had dropped out of the air upon Niagara and was holding the town and power works . Meanwhile the insurrectionary movement in the giant city grew uncontrollable . In spite of five great fires already involving many acres , and spreading steadily , New York was still not satisfied that she was beaten . vent only in isolated shouts , street - crowd At first the rebellious spirit below found speeches , and newspaper suggestions ; then it found much more definite expression in the appearance in the morning sunlight of Ameri- tectural cliffs of the city . It is quite possible can flags at point after point above the archi- that in many cases this spirited display of bunt- the ing by a city already surrendered was outcome of the innocent informality of the American mind , but it is also undeniable that in many it was a deliberate indication that the people " felt wicked . " The German sense of correctitude was deeply shocked by this outbreak . The Graf von Winterfeld immediately communicated with the Mayor and pointed out the irregu- larity , and the fire look - out atations were in- structed in the matter . The New York police were speedily hard at work , and a foolish con- test in full swing between impassioned citi tated and worried officers instructed to pull zens resolved to keep the flag flying , and irri- It down . " The trouble became scute at last in the streets above Columbia University . The cap- tain of the airship watching this quarter seems to have stooped to lasso and drag from its staff a flag hoisted upon Morgan Hill . As he did so a volley of rifle and revolver shots was fired from the upper windows of the huge apartment building that stands between the one upon eles of Tiffany's . Promptly that one - gun bat- tery unmasked . The airship's look - out man must have seen the whole of the tenth storey of the Dexter building crumble out and smash in the street below , to discover the black muzzle looking out from the shadows behind . Then perhaps the shell hit him .. The gun fired two shells before the frame of the Dexter building collapsed , and each shell raked the Wetterhorn from stem to stern . They smashed her exhaustively . She crumpled up like a can that has been kicked by a heavy boot , her forepart came down in the square , and the rest of her length , with a great snapping and twisting of shafts and stays , descended , collapsing athwart Tam- many Hall and the streets towards Second Avenue . Her gas escaped to mix with air , and the air of her rent balloonette poured into her deflating gas chambers . Then with an immense impact she exploded .. The Vaterland at that time was beating up to the south of City Hall from over the ruins of Brooklyn Bridge , and the reports of the gun , followed by the first crashes of the col- in time to see the flash of the exploding gun , lapsing Dexter Buildings , brought Kurt and Smallways to the cabin porthole . They were and then they were first flattened against the window and then rolled head over heels across the floor of the cabin by the air wave of the explosion . The Vaterland bounded like a football someone has kicked , and when they looked out again Union Square was small and remote and shattered , as though some cosmically vast giant had rolled over it . The buildings to the east of it were ablaze at a dozen points , under the flaming tatters and warping skeleton of the airship , and all the roofs and walls were ridiculously askew and crumbling as one looked . " Gaw " said Bert . " What's happened ? Look at the people ! " tion , the shrill bells of the airship were ring- But before Kurt could produce an explana ing to quarters , and he had to go . Bert nesi- tated and stepped thoughtfully into the pas- sage , looking back at the window as he did so . He was knocked off his feet at once by the Prince , who was rushing headlong from his cabin to the central magazine .. great figure of the Prince , white with rage , Bert had a momentary impression of the bristling with gigantic anger , his huge fist swinging . Prince , as one who swears . " Blut und Eisen ! " cried the " Oh ! Blut und Eisen " Someone fell over Bert - something in the manner of falling suggested von Winterfeld- and someone else paused and kicked him spitefully and hard . Then he was sitting up in the passage , rubbing a freshly bruised cheek and readjusting the bandage he still wore on his head . " Eng that Prince ! " said Bert , indignant beyond measure . ' asn't the menners of a ' og ! " Hen University and Riverside Drive . Most of these were ineffectual , but two or three perforated gas - chambers , and amashed the hand and arm of a man the forward platform . The sentinel on the lower gallery immediately replied , and the machine - gun on the shield of the eagle let fly and promptly stopped any further shots . The airship rose and signalled the flagship and City Hall , police and militiamen were directed dent closed . at once to the spot , and this particular inci- tempt of a party , of young clubmen from New But hard upon that came the desperate at- York who , inspired by patriotic and adven - minute , and then went slowly towards the back again . he heard noises suggestive of the return of the Prince . The lot of them were coming He shot into his cabin like a rabbit into its burrow , just in time to escape that shouting terror . He shut the door , waited until the passage looked out . was still , then went across to the window and A drift of cloud made the pro- He stood up , collected his wits for B • A MORNING BACK . " Every Picture tells a Story . " Does your back ache constantly ? Do you feel dull , miserable and tired all the time ? Do you have the " blues " -and restless nights ? Kidney sickness silently exhausts the The beneficial effects of Doan's Back- strongest person . A dull dragging ache ache Kidney Pills are often found after in the small of the back will tell on the the first box or two - the bladder acts healthiest man or woman . 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Above him the airship was warm with lights and busy with the move- ments of men going to their quarters . Then abruptly the lights went out , and the Vater- land with bounds and twists and strange writhings was fighting her way up the air . He had a glimpse , as the Vaterland rolled over , of some large buildings burning close below them , a quivering acanthus of flames , and then he saw indistinctly through the driv . ing weather another airship wallowing along like a porpoise , and also working up . " sently the clouds swallowed her again for a time , and then she came back to sight as a dark and whale - like monster , amidst stream- ing weather . The air was full of flappings and pipings , of void , gusty shouts noises ; it buffeted him and confused him ; ever and again his attention became rigid - a blind and deaf balancing and clutching . " Wow ! " It was a pause of mutual inspection . For a time naïve humanity swamped the conven- tions of warfare altogether ; the interest of the millions below and of the thousands above alike was spectacular . The evening For Bert Smallways all this was framed in the frame of the open porthole . It was a pale , was unexpectedly fine - only a few thin level bands of clouds at seven or eight thousand dim world outside that dark and tangible feet broke its luminous clarity . The wind had rim . All night he had clutched at that rim , dropped ; it was an evening infinitely peace- jumped and quivered at explosions , and ful and still . The heavy concussions of the The lamentable incidents that followed the watched phantom events . Now he had been distant guns and those incidental harmless surrender of New York seem now in the re- high and now low ; now almost beyond hear pyrotechnics at the level of the clouds seemed to have as little to do with killing and force , trospect to be but the necessary and ineviting ; now flying close to crashings and shouts He had seen airships flying low of the clash of modern and swift over darkened and groaning streets ; terror and submission , as a salute at a naval appliances and social conditions produced by watched great buildings , suddenly red - lit review . Below , every point of vantage the scientific century on the one hand , and amidst the shadows , crumple at the smashing bristled with spectators , the roofs of the towering buildings , the public squares , the the tradition of a crude , romantic patriotism impact of bombs ; witnessed for the first active ferry boats , and every favourable At first people received the time in his life the grotesque , swift onset of street intersection had its crowds : all the fact with an irresponsible detachment , much insatiable conflagrations . " From it all he felt turous imaginations , slipped off in half a gangway of the little gallery . As he did so as they would have received the slowing down river piers were dense with people , the Bat detached , disembodied . of the train in which they were travelling or not even fling a bomb ; she watched and ruled . work with remarkable vigour to improvise The Vaterland ' did dozen motor - cars to Beacon Hill , and set to tery Park was solid black with east - side the erection of a public monument by the city Then down they had come at last to hover population , and every position of advantage in Central Park and alorg Riverside Drive to which they belonged . a fort about the Doan swivel - gun that had bad its peculiar and characteristic assembly " We have surrendered . Dear me ! have over City Hall Park , and it had crept in upon been placed there . They found it still in the we ? " was rather the manner in which the mind , chillingly , terrifyingly , that these hands of the disgusted gunners , who had from the adjacent streets . The footways of illuminated black masses first news was met . They took it in the same afire , and that the going to and fro of minute and it was easy to infect these men with their were great offices been ordered to cease fire at the capitulation , the great bridges over the East River were spectacular spirit they had displayed at the dim spectres of lantern - lit grey and white was also closely packed and blocked . Everywhere first apparition of the air - fleet . Only slowly a harvesting of the wounded and the dead . half a chance , and were burning to shew what spect of the streets and squares hazy , and the own spirit . They declared their gun hadn't shopkeepers had left their shops , men their was this realisation of a capitulation suffused As the light grew clearer he began to under- it could do . Directed by the newcomers , they rolling of the airship swung the picture up work , and women and children their homes , with the flush of patriotic passion , only with stand more and more what these crumpled made a trench and bank about the mounting fro , but for the most part the aspect of the to come out and see the marvel . reflection did they make any personal applica- black things signified .... and down . A few people were running to and agrations and heaped and scattered dead ; of the piece , and constructed flimsy shelter- district was desertion . The streets seemed to though they had been no more than Moors , men , women , and children mixed together as pits of corrugated iron . or Zulus , or Chinese . They were actually loading the gun when broaden out , they became clearer , and the Lower New York was they were observed by the airship Preussen , little dots that were people larger as the soon a furnace of crimson flames , from which and the shell they succeeded in firing before was swaying along above the lower end of Vaterland came down again . Presently she there was no escape . Cars , railways , ferries , their crude defences to fragments , burst over not running now , but standing and looking fusion but the light of burning . all had ceased , and never a light led the way the bombs of the latter smashed them and the middle gas - chambers of the Bingen , and up . Then suddenly they were all running again . glimpses of what it must mean to be down Broadway . The dots below , Bert saw , were of the distracted fugitives in that dusky con- He had brought her to earth , disabled , upon Staten be- Island . Something had dropped from the aeroplane , there - glimpses . she was badly deflated , and dropped something that looked small and flimsy . And it came to him sud- among trees , over which her empty central hit the pavement near a big archway just un- It denly as an incredible discovery , that such gas - bags spread in canopies and festoons . derneath Bert . disasters were not only possible now in this Nothing , however , had caugut fire , and her along the sidewalk within half a dozen yards , in London - in Bun Hill ! That the little island atmospheric Jiu - Jitsu . A little man was sprinting strange , gigantic , foreign New York , but also men were speedily at work upon her repair and two or three others and one woman were They behaved with a confidence that verged bolting across the roadway . They were odd munity , that nowhere in the world any more in the silver seas was at the end of its in- upon indiscretion . menced patching the tears of the membrane , the heads , so very active about the elbows might lift his head proudly and vote for war While most of them com- little figures , so very small were they about was there a place left where a Smallways half a dozen of them started off for the nearest and legs . road in search of a gas main , and presently legs going . It was really funny to see their and a spirited foreign policy , and go secure Foreshortened humanity has no from such horrible things . found themselves prisoners in the hands of a faintly what those brief minutes of uproar hostile arowd . Close at hand was a number jumped comically - no doubt with terror - as dignity . The little man on the pavement had meant . They read the tale of men blown of villa residences , whose occupants speedily the bomb fell beside him . to bits , of futile soldiers in that localised developed from , an unfriendly curiosity to ag battle fighting against hope amidst an inde gression . At that time the police control of directions from the point of impact , and the Then blinding flames squirted out in all scribable wreckage , of flags hauled down by " No , " said Kurt , and sat down , a tired man . the large polyglot population of Staten little man who had jumped became , for an weeping men . " Gott ! " he cried presently , rubbing his Island had become very lax , and scarcely a instant , a flash of fire and vanished - vanished their waiting game must cost , and struck with And these strange nocturnal hands over his face , but I'd like a cold household but had its rifle or pistols and am- editions contained also the first brief cables bath ! I've been looking for stray bullet - holes munition . These were presently produced , road took preposterous clumsy leaps , then absolutely . from Europe of the fleet disaster , the North in the air - chambers all night until now . " He and after two or three misses one of the men flopped down and lay still , with their torn Blood and Iron , and from fire and death . The people running out into the all the strength they had , if haply they might Atlantic Fleet for which New York had still save New York from this mad Prince of always felt an especial pride and solicitude . out , Smallways . I can't stand you here this yawned . " I must sleep . You'd better clear at work was hit in the foot . Thereupon the clothes smouldering into flame . Slowly , hour by hour , the collective con morning . Germans left their sewing and mending , took Then pieces They came down upon the Germans on the sciousness woke up , the You're so infernally ugly and use tide of patriotic less . Have you had your rations ? No ! Well , cover among the trees , and replied . of the archway began to drop , and the lower wings of a great gale in the twilight , amidst astonishment and humiliation came flowing go in and get ' em , and don't come thunder and rain . They came from the yards . The crackling of shots speedily brought masonry of the building to fall in with the in . America had come upon disaster ; sud Stick in the gallery . " the Preussen and Kiel on the scene , and with rumbling sound of coals being shot into a of Washington and Philadelphia , full tilt in denly New York discovered herself , a few hand grenades they made short work then a crowd of people ran out into the street , ship hard by Trenton cellar . A faint screaming reached Bert , and two squadrons , and but for one sentinel air- amazement giving place to wrath unspeak sleep , resumed his helpless co - operation in So Bert , alightly refreshed by coffee and of every villa within a mile . A number of the surprise would able , a conquered city under the hand of her the War in the Air . He went down into the children were killed and the actual assailants halted , and went back towards the build- non - combatant American men , women , and one man limping and gesticulating awkwardly . have been complete . The Germans , sick and weary with destruc- Something fell past him out of the vast little gallery as the Heutenant had directed , driven off . For a time the repairs went on ing . darknesses A falling mass of brickwork hit him tion , and half empty of ammunition , were fac- above and vanished into the As that fact shaped itself in the public and clung to the rail at . the extreme end be in peace under the immediate protection of and sent him sprawling to lie still and ing up into the weather when the news or this mind , there sprang up , as flames spring up . yond the look - out man , trying to seem as in- tumults below , going obliquely downward . It an angry repudiation . " No ! " cried New Dust and these two airships . Then when they returned crumpled where he fell onset reached them : New York they had left was a German drachenflieger . The thing was York , waking in the dawn . " No ! I am not conspicuous and harmless a fragment of life behind to the south - eastward , a darkened city going so fast he had but an instant apprehen- to their quarters an intermittent snipping and smoke came pouring into the street , and were defeated . This is a dream . " fighting round the stranded Bingen was re- presently shot with red flame . with one hideous red scar of flames . All the sion of the dark figure of the aeronaut A wind was rising rather strongly from the sumed , and went on all the afternoon , and began . She was the first of the great cities south - east . It obliged the Vaterland to come merged at last in the general combat of the of the Scientific Age to suffer by the enormous fight their way up again the air had become catacopho In this manner the massacre of New York airships rolled and staggered , bursts of hail- crouched together clutching at his wheel . was running through all the city , through about in that direction , and made her roll evening . storm bore them down and forced them to might be a manoeuvre , but it looked like a every soul in those contagious millions . Be a great deal as she went to and fro fore it took action , before it took shape , the Manhattan Island . About eight the Bingen was rushed by an powers and grotesque limitations of aerial bitterly cold . The Prince was on the point " Gaw ! " said Bert . men in the airships could feel the gigantic in clouds gathered . The throb - throb of her slow Away in the north - west armed mob , and all its defenders killed after warfare . She was wrecked as in the previous of issuing orders to drop earthward and trail " Pup - pup - pup , " went a gun somewherin surgence of emotion , as cattle and natura a fierce , disorderly struggle . century endless barbarie cities had been bom- copper lightning chains when the news of the earthquake . The newspapers of the Knype full speed ahead ; and the friction of the wind creatures feel , it is said , the coming of at screw working against the breeze was much The difficulty of the Germans in both these barded , because she was at once too strong to aeroplane attack came to him . He faced his more perceptible than when she was going cases came from the impossibility of landing to surrender in order to escape destruction . flieger manned and held ready to cast loose , be occupied , and too undisciplined and proud feet in line abreast south , had the drachen- group first gave the thing words and a for any efficient force or , indeed , any force at all Given the circumstances the thing had mula " We do ot gree . " they said simply drove a series of shallow ripples along it and underside of the gas - chamber from the air - fleet . The airships were quite and ordered a general ascent into the freezing the zenith , followed by another huge roll , and unequal to the transport of any adequate desist and own himself defeated , and it was done . It was impossible for the Prince to clearness above the wet and darkness . all about him the tumbled clouds flashed red made a faint flapping sound like , but fainter landing parties ; their complement of men was The news of what was imminent came and lurid in response to flashes unseen , reveal- than , the basting of ripples under the stem just sufficient to manoeuvre and fight them in impossible to subdue the city except by slowly to Bert's perceptions . He was stand- ing immense gulfs . The rail went right over- the air . From above they could inflict im- largely destroying it . The catastrophe was ing in the mess - room at the time , and the head , and he was hanging loose in the air She was stationed over the temporary City mense damage ; they could reduce any orga- by the application of science to warfare . the logical outcome of the situation created evening rations were being served out . He holding on to it . Hall in the Park Row building , and every nised Government to a capitulation in the was unavoidable that great cities should be and , in addition , he had wrapped his blanket It had resumed Butteridge's coat and gloves , For a time Bert's whole mind and being now and then she would descend to resume briefest space , but they could not disarm , was given to clutching . " I'm going into the Washington . But the restlessness of the areas below . his soup and biting off big mouthfuls . His and brought back the gallery floor to his feet . Prince would not suffer him to remain for sure upon the authorities below of a threat to give a memorable lesson with the minimum He tried to legs were wide apart , and he leant against He began to make his way cautiously towards long in any one place . Now he would circle over renew the bombardment . It was their sole waste of life and the minimum expenditure of amidst the pitching and oscillation of the air- the partition in order to steady himself the ladder . " Wee - wow ! " he cried , as the the Hudson and East River ; now he would whole gallery reared itself up forward and explosives . go up high , as if to peer away into the blue For that night he proposed only ship . The men about him looked tired and then plunged down like a desperate horse . distances ; once he ascended so swiftly and Bo far that mountain sickness overtook him hard upon this little rattle of shots and bombs and the crew and forced him down again ; sufficed to keep the peace . this thoroughfare , dropping bombs , the air - sick . But this was not Vaterland leading . They all seemed to share the pecu- came , all about him , enveloping him , engulf and Bert shared , the dizziness and nausea . the American ease . Not only was the New And so our Bert Small- liarly outcast feeling that had followed the ing him , immense and The swaying view varied with these changes York Government a weak one and insuffi - cold - blooded slaughters in the world's his- neath them and an outraged humanity grown thunder - clap that was like the bursting of a overwhelming , ways became a participant in one of the most murders of the evening , a sense of land be- quivering white blaze of lightning and of altitude . Now they would be low and close , ciently provided with police , but the destruc- tory , in which men who were neither excited more hostile than the sea . and he would distinguish in that steep , un- tion of the City Hall and Post - Office and usual perspective , windows , doors , street ' and other central ganglia had hopelessly disorganor , except for the remotest chance a a conqueror , and this was the enemy's city . The greater the city , the greater the triumph . No doubt he had a time of tremendous exul- tation and sensed beyond all precedent the joys of power that night . There came an end at last to that pause . Some wireless communications had failed of a satisfactory ending and fleet and city remem- bered they were hostile powers . " Look ! " cried the multitude ; " Look ! " What are they doing ? " " What ? " " Down through the twilight sank five attacking airships , one to the Navy Yard on East River , one to City Hall , two over the great business buildings of Wall- street and Lower Broadway , one to Brooklyn Bridge . drooping from among their FOREIG MATCHES the conqueror . with Before day broke the swift American ange More than half the matches used in England are made in Germany , Austria , and other Foreign Countries . USE ENGLAND'S GLORY MATCHES more fightin ' yet ? " he asked . Bert sat up and rubbed his eyes . " Any as possible . against the of a boat . back . over black be CHAPTER XXXI . And then above the flames of Manhattan . Island came a battle , the first battle in the air . The Americans had realised the price Pre- and the mirk ahead , and suddenly and quite horribly the Vaterland lurched , and Bet and the sentinel were clinging to the rail for dear " Bang ! " came a vast imp : et o of life . It communication with the Mayor and with much less could they occupy , the surrendered tion with his dilemma , the Prince sought to destroyed . In spite of his intense exaspera- about him . He was dipping his bread into cabin , " he said , as the airship righted again Every box you buy means MORE WORK FOR and ENGLAND BRITISH WORKERS . MORELAND , GLOUCESTER . OLD FRIENDS ARE BEST . resource . They had to trust to the pres- be moderate even in massacre . No doubt , with a highly - organised and un- damaged Government and a homogeneous and air - fleet to move in column over the route of sullen and thoughtful , and one or two were the wrecking of Broadway . He directed the depressed ; a few talked , but most were Crack ! Bang ! Bang ! Bang ! And then well - disciplined people that would have Then the news lit them . A red - faced , sky signs , people and the minutest details , nised the co - operation of part with part . The bullet , in any danger , poured death and de- sturdy man , a man with light eyelashes and a watch the enigmatical behaviour of street cars and railways had ceased the tele - struction upon homes and crowds below . Bear , appeared in the doorway and shouted phone service was He clung to the frame of the porthole as the something in German that manifestly startled out of gear and only airship tossed and swayed , and stared down everyone . Bert felt the shock of the altered worked intermittently . The Germans had struck at the head , and the head was con- through the light rain that now drove before tone though he could not understand a word quered and stunned only to release the body the wind , into the twilight streets , watching that was said . The announcement was fol- from its rule . New York had become a head people running out of the houses , watching lowed by a pause , and then a great outery of less monster , no longer capable of collective buildings collapse and fires begin : As the questions and suggestions . Even the air Everywhere it lifted itself re- airships sailed along they smashed up the city sick man flushed and spoke . For some belliously ; everywhere authorities and off- as a child will shatter its cities of brick and minutes the mess - room was Bedlam , and then , cials . left to their own initiative , were joining sard .. 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