The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-03


 village behind it in its march whose food supply and machinery of labor and busineas it had not made entirely it's own.
 Where there were destroyed places the invader organized the population to rebuild them He levied on every community, large and small, for funds He paid out nothing of his own except written scrip. At one blow the whole financial system of the conquered coun- try was converted into one great source of tribute.
 Suddenly there came a storm of news to the Boston papers. It came from the country to the south of the harbor from Collasset and Hingham, Wey- mouth and Quincy Heavy artillery was being unloaded all along the line of the south shore branch of the Old Colony railroad Horses and limbers were moving along all the roads to the shore. Soldiers were advancing into all the towns.
 Boston's populace, listening to the clamor from the sea, scarcely noted that the bulletins were announcing that all the railroad lines of the Boston and Maine railroad leading north and northwest to Portsmouth, Haverhi1l, Lawrence and Lowell had been seized and that Boston was completely cut off
 Silent policemen appeared all at once, followed by men with posters and paste pals. The crowds saw posters go up on their walls signed by the Boston citizens committee.
 There was a poster in great red let ters warning the inhabitants to de- liver any firearms that they possessed in the city hall within six hours.
 'tAttentionr, said another placard, Tn case of military occupation of the city a single disorder1y act may mean the ruin Of all It is the duty of all citizens to offer no resistance and to report to the authorities any plan to- ward resistance.'
 There was a great stir in the crowd. IA cab was pushing it's way through Washington street to the Globe build ing. Two disheveled and blood stain ed artiIIerymen and an equally dis heveled civilian were init While the soldiers went on to the city hall the civilian got out and entered the news paper office. He was Globe reporter The cab hardly had stopped at the city hall before a bulletin went up:
 FORT ANDREWS GARRISON
 DIES AT ITS POST IGNORES SUMMONS TO SURREN-
 DER
 ONLY THREE MEN ESCAPE FROM
 RUINS
 Ten minutes later the extras ap- peared and were whirled through the town. They passed with the speed al- most of the wind, for men passed them from hand to hand. They shouted the news to people looking from windows in a deRirtum hah of disnay, half of exuItation The newspaper man had brought in such tale as would live in American history.
 At QuaEter past the hostile general sent message to the American com mander at Fort Warren apprising him of the. disposition of his field guns Tn onequarter of an hour," said he, the boInbardment will begin. We shall fire at Brooklfne hrst''
 Until then no soldiers had appeared in the city of Boston itself The arm- ed ring had contented itself with en- c1rcling all the suburbs Now the telephone bell rang in the city hail. and voice asked for the mayor
 The voice was that of the hostile commander, speaking from Brookline. -Four defenses are in our hands," he said. "Our guns command every part of your city. [ have the honor to de- mand unconditional and peaceab4e sur render at once, with all property of ev- Nery kind z
 The mayor knew that disaster was at hand We surrender" he said.
 4very we'll was the response "A body of troops under a general officer will enter the city at once. They will have orders to punish any disturbance ssvereIy.'