The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-03-28

lay a line of relays to catch The news
and pass 4 on TO the nation and It's
fleet.
Moro than a hundred mites of sea,
said the news. were covered by tho
advancing fleet. II was n hundred
miles Of steel forts. and outside OK
them, dashing back and forth IN
ceaseiess patrol. were the lighter and
faster craft. consisting IL destroyers
and small swift cruisers.
The scout cruiser birmingham hal
spied ships inside even the inner line.
But they were not transports. They
were etill warships. The troop trans
ports were 90 far within al tho pro-
tect!ve cordnns that the American
scouts. lying far aloaf; tho horizon.
| could not even sight their mnsts. :
The enemy fleet scarcely made an
attempt 20 attack the spying vessels.
II seemed almost thai the enormous
mass was too in~soleutly sure Of It's
power TO trouble about tho scouts.
So with watching cruisers and de-
strcyers hanging To its sides day and
night the invaders armada moved
WESTWARD as steady "a a l~iieless.
wicked machine. Never varying their
distances or relative positions. never
falling out If line. eve altering their
speed Of fourteen knots. tho dread
noughts and battle cru.sers guarded
their precious transports. trusting to
their outer Gordon to keep ON oil at
,acks. And the outer Gordon held
true.
II did rot move slowly. inainsticallv.
like the arnored line. Incrsslntly It
swept hack and forth AMI in and out,
patro,l,ng the sea 70 n distance 10 far
from tho battlcships that tho Aneri-
can scouts rarely could approach
nearer than 70 slrht from their own
tops tho tops OF the d~-ondnoughts
As the enemy covered the sea. 50
ne filed tho air. Constantly. nil day
long. floating and drifting With the
soft white clouds far beyond the fur
thest extent Of the cordJn. has aero
! planes surveyed tho water world.
And all day one and all night long
the ships wtr"lcss tore IN" air.
The American wireless 200 played
forth lts electric waves of air night
and day. From daring scouts 70 ra-
!ay ships and from relay ships 10
hidden fleet nnd to waiting nation
went the story ont Of ~" far goa.
The American millions knew the prog
ress OF the coming enemy as II the
feet were an army moving along a
pupulous highway " tho land
The nation watched tho irlulacab.e.
iremorsolcss advance hretth,essly. ap-
p~rehens!vc,Y but behind - apprchru-
sion there was hope. surely surely 3
men sa'd 70 each other. 'our splendid
sailors vii get at thom''
Accustomed 10y ~ history 20 eN
pct thrilling deeds OF dash ana en-.
terprise thai, should wrcst success or
us disaster the United stat~ waited
for the deed
Il came Out q. mo far Atiantic
came the story. II came from IN,
hattlcshlp KearsGrgo and went 20 ~,
Chester, It was passed on by M
=, Chester and picked NJ by the Tacoma
and the Tacoma tossed Il .n'o tho all
and sen; y TO the coast.
"EngaRed." st,d the Kearsarse
: "~havc-sunk." ana then thero cam,
D IA break n me message. "Dostroyer-
. l!rht-cru'soT.' spuk" the wireless
! GEain. and stopped. "Arnored-
I cruiser" spoke the wirrless again 1!
. half an Nour. Port -bcam-d'S
= Observation-Disclosures pr~eir-ntnough
-ahaft -starboard 49, beam -- fring -
D $4,000 49, yards - d~rcadnouGht por
= bcam-" Again there came n
I abrupt cheek 20 thu wireless.
To the mon On the feet "somewhor
OF tho Virginia CApes" and 20 N
mel IN pewspape. offices from occi'
10 ocean = was as - they were WY
A Messing the feht. Inde"d the p-essr
A md some ~ q printed and on ~
: streets before the batt,eship's stor,
n was done.
"Dreadnuught--" started rh~ wire
= less again, ~ 900 -yaris-am ~rucl
- after - upper turrct - m
struck-forward-gun- TT TURF
-d!smounted-am struck after-xu'
a -lower-furret-'
y The air fell silent. 7. WIS the an
word from the EearsHrse.
q -As a man" sa'd the Admiral thu
d night TO the correspondents VII
pressed him Cor an interview, - AZ
y glad that the KearSarg" did Il. \
q Admiral | can only say tNat her DO
struct,or, C.d though IN" WAS, is
henvy loss to us that would no. =
!, balanced even II. besides the ship
n .,he sunk, she rad sunk both the dread
v noughta We a V ordered the flee
20 keep itsNlr intact"
l. Does thai mean nat there are {
be no ra:ds?"
at cannon he done" answered n
y Admiral. WIN n;o'cr' ~nOChin"r'
a rcroism Fan do great d"r' -. inv, "a
. ever. Wi;hOut th" machine, ' ca