The Press., 1889-04-11
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sufficient command of himself to write report of what had happened. They gazed at the bare, staring fatness of the shorn bluff, and they looked at each other. This was not war. It was something supernatural, awfuli They were not frightened; they were oppressed and ap- palled. But the military discipline of their minds soon exerted its force, and a brief account of the terrific event was transmitted to the authorities, and Sergt. Kilsey was sentenced to a month in the guard house.
 No one approached the vicinity of the bluff where the fort had stood, for danger might not be over; but every possible point of observation within safe dis tance was soon crowded with anxious and terrified observers. A feeling of awe was noticeable everywhere. If people could have had tangible idea of what had occurred, it would have been differ ent. If the sea had ragged; if vast body of water had been thrown into the air; if a dense cloud had been suddenly ejected from the surface of the earth, they might have formed some opinion about 1t. But the instantaneous disappearance of a great fertilization with a little more ap- preciable accompaniment than the sud- den tap, as of little hammer, upon thousands of window panes, was some thing which their intellecte could not grasp. It was not to be expected that 4he ordinary mind could appreciate the difference between the action of an in- stantaneous motor when imbedded in rocks and earth, and it's effect, when op- posed by nothing but stone walls, upon or near the surface of the earth.
 Early the next morning the little fleet of the syndicate prepared to carry out its further orders. The waters of the lower bay were now entirely deserted, craft of every description having taken refuge in the upper part of the harbor near and above the city. Therefore as soon as it was light enough to make ob- servations Repeller No. did not hesitate to discharge motor bomb into the harbor, mile or more above where the first one had fallen. This was done in order to explode any torpedoes which might have been put into position since the discharge of the first bomb.
 There were very few people in the city and suburbs who were at that hour out of doors, where they could see the great cloud of water rise toward the sky, and behold it descend like a mighty cataract upon the harbor and adjacent shores; but the quick, sharp shock which ran under the town made people spring from their beds, and although nothing was then to be seen, nearly everybody felt sure that the syndicate's forces had be- gun their days work by exploding an- other mine.
 A lighthouse, the occupants of which had been ordered to leave when the fort was evacuated, as they might be in dan- ger in case of bombardment, was so shaken by the explosion of this motor bomb that it fell in ruins on the rocks upon which it had stood.
 The two crabs now took the steel net from it's moorings and carried it up the harbor. This was rather difficult on ac- count of .the islands, rocks and sandbars; but the leading crab had on board pilot acquainted with those waters. With the net hanging between them, the two sub merged vessels, one carefully following
 
 miles below the city, where the net was anchored across the harbor. It did not reach from shore to shore, but in the course of the morning two other nets, designed for shallower waters, were brought from the repellers and anchored at teach end of the main net, thus form ing line of complete protection against submarine torpedoes which might be sent down from the upper harbor.
 Repeller No. now steamed into the harbor, accompanied by Crab A, and anchoredsabout quarter of mile sea- ward Of che net. The other repeller, with her attendant crab, cruised about the mouth of the harbor, watching a smaller entrance to the port as well as the larger one, and thus maintaining an effective blockade. This was not diff. cult duty, for since the news of the ex- traordinary performances of the crabs had been spread abroad, no merchant vessel, large or small, cared to approach that port; and strict orders had been issued by the British admiralty that nc vessel of the navy should, until further instructed, engage in combat with the peculiar craft of the syndicate. Until 6 plan of action had been determined upon, it was very desirable that English cruisers should not be exposed to useless injury and danger.
 This being the state of affairs, mes sage was sent from the office oi the syndicate across the border te the Dominion government, whict stated that the seaport city which had been attacked by the forces of tho syndicate now lay under the guns of its vessels, and in case of an overt act o1 war by Great Britain or Canada alone such as the entrance of. an armed force from British territory into the United States, or capture of or attack upon al American vessel, navel or commercial by @ British man-of-war, or an attacl upon an American port by British yes sells, the city would be bombarded ant destroyed.
 This message, which was of course in stantly transmitted to London, placed the British government in the apparen position of being held by the throat by the American War Syndicate. But i the British government or the people O England or Canada recognized this post tion at all it was merely as tenporar. condition. In short time the mos powerful men-of-war of tho royal navy as we'll as fleet of transports carryini troops, would reach the coasts of Nortl America, and then the condition O affairs would rapidly be changed. I was absurd to suppose that few me .