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trap and slaughtered them at leisure.
Viaducts and works were dynamited
that never could have been Of any
use to the enemy. 1t was formless.
systemless destruction, but in that
very lack Of system lay its danger to
the enemy forces.
Had all the men in New England
who were engaged in this wild fighting
been gathered IN one body the trained,
disciplined soldiers could have disposed
of them in an action SO simple that
they might scarcely have named 1t a
skirmish. But this was like a forest
fire that stamped out in one spot
breaks into roaring flame in another.
AS ii sweeps from treetops to tree
tops and creeps underground and
flames out in quick fury miles away
so the warfire raved through Massa-
chusetts and Connecticut TO be
crushed out only in detail with de-
tailed. bitter work through all that
long. hot, dusty day.
II was serious. This uprising OF an
undisciplned population could not de-
feat or even damage seriously the
great army. But 1t could hamper it,
1t would force wide scattering OF
troops to break down the sporadic OPP
pos ton. II would make a dangerous
country-dangerous in front of the
advancing soldiers, dangerous in their
rear. continually dangerous around
them.
In that sense it was more serious
than deliberate military opposition by
the American army would have been.
Had the enemy commander faced only
defending army 1t would have been
n quiet. technical matter Of advance
guards against advance guards. These
pawns in the old game of war would
have thrust each other back here. re-
ceded before each other there. fighting
only when ii was forced on them. and
80 gradually properly they would have
cleared the board that the great game
might be played
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the house. 1t was field artillery, sleek,
beautiful.
The Sherin's brother, carried away
by rage, fired and fired. He emptied
his MAGAZINE at the distant men.
Along the highway the column
moved steadily. silently. No soldier
checked his foot for so much as an in
slant at the sound Of the shots.
Bayonets, bayonets. bayonets! The
machine moved on.
1t moved on. eyes front. while the
Captain commanding the cannon
snapped an order. 1t moved on. bayo-
nets twinkling out OF sight IN front
and twinkling past and twinkling into
sight from behind. while the little gun
tore the April morning.
The stone house spouted clouds Of
dust and powdering stone. 1t dis
solved. IL became ruin that stared
phantomlike through the cloud as IL
4; were looking with horribly expand
ing eyes at the gun.
II the besieged fred in return the
men at the gun did not know II. Their
steel beast drowned the farmers tiny
efforts in roar and flame. They passed
as Dreatn. Inc CaNalryfnen can
tered to the ruin. A half wall was
standing. jagged. The rest was a
mound Of dirt. Under 1t lay fourteen
men OF Massachusetts. The Sheriff
lay there, with his face more patient
than ever and his arm around his
brother.
The little gun and its horses and
men Joined the horses and men that
wire moving northward through New
England.
over the field telegraph wire that
unreeled behind the advancing force
went the report to the enemy head
quarters: civilians estimated at
about a dozen fired from ambush. kill
ing eight cavalry. Took refuge in
building. Annihilated."
1t was n perfunctory report telling
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the seventy miles north and south
from New London To Worcester. where
men could not see the fire of burn
ing towns or houses. In Massachu-
sets, from New Bedford To Taunton
and from Taunton north to Brockton,
there were fires. All the sky
around Providence was red. The
smoke drifted over Boston and the
strangling odor filled its streets.
All night the country burned. All
night wounded fugitves lay hidden,
gritting their teeth, or. forced by in
tolerahle anguish, Crawlcd out and
surrendered. All night long the troops
swept through town after town
wrcaking vengeance.
1t was finished in the morning. "The
country is pacitied." were the reports
that went to headquarters. There
were no gatherings of citizens any
where within the province Of the
army's operations. They We're for
hidden. There were no arms left in
the hands of civilians. Houses in
which weapons were found had been
destroyed. Men who had been found
with them in their possession We're
shot. Men with explosives were shot.
In all New England that morning
every man had to be ready, for his
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of a merely perfunctory incident, But
the commander in chief, sitting at his
ease in headquarters in Providence,
stopped smoking for a moment
See that the news does not spread
said he. at might raise the country.
Reinforce all patrols and warn Them"
He was a quick man. His officers
We're quick and his system OF commu-
nication was quick. But the news
sped more quickly still. over every
telephone that was intact, over every
telegraph wire that still worked in
New England. by bicycle, on horse
hack, by men running the story was
passed from man to man and village
to village.
They were fourt, en- humble men.
unknown beyond their own township,
when they Crouched behind the stone
wall. They were fourteen shining
names before the ruins that GOV red
them had ceased smoking. New Eng
land. like a blazing forest. was ablaze
with wrath and fury.
Vain was it now for cautious men
to warn or authorities to command.
Men who never in their lives had
thought harm to any living thing
dashed out with smouldering yes to
fight. Prudent men. who never in
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their lives had acted on impulse, now
acted without a seconds pause for
reflection. Men who had cared all
their lives only for their own little
affairs were all drunken now and
thought 1t nothing to fire one shot
for their country and die behind a
stone wall in the dirt.
In Acushnet an old whaling cap
tain. prosperous. weighty citizen,
emptied his shotgun into a raiding
party and was left dad under his
forsythias with the golden blossoms
from the volley torn shrubs covering
him.
Between Taunton and Pawtucket
militia company of field artillery
that had been unable to move its gun
because 1t lacked horses got 1t from
It's hiding place and with a party OF
volunteers who had no firearms fought
behind Piled bags II cement against
enemy cavalry till artillery had to be
brought from miles away TO destroy
them.
South of Woonsocket a band made
up OF thirty Massachusetts militia
infantry and sixty factory hands from
the town prevented two companies
Of hostile infantry for almost two
hours from crossing the Blackstone
River. 1t was not because they could
shoot or knew how TO fight. 1t was
because they meant to stay there till
they died. And II was not until they
were dead that the invaders succeeded
in crossing.
New England women who had spe mt
their lives in homely, simple duties
brought out dippers of water TO
parched men and cheered them on
They hid fleeing men in barns and
stood by defiant when pursuing SOL
diers dragged them out and shot them
before their eyes.
Men took down old muskets that
had been over chimneyplaces for a
generation. Their wives and mothers
kissed them they went out to fight.
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II the tension in the house had
lasted much longer some of these men
would have rushed out. But there
came a great sound from the distance
1t might have been thunder, rolling
far away. 1t might have been a river
In flood.
"They're coming" said the Sheriff's
brother. 1t was hard for him to
speak. The defenders were all vio-
lently thirsty, and they had not had
time to bring water from the well.
They came. Horses horses. horses!
Bayonets, bayonets, bayonets. They
came and passed along the road, and
more came on.
They did not turn off to attack the
house. They did not even turn their
heads to look at it. This Infatuated
the defenders.
Horses. horses, horses! Bayonets.
bayonets. bayonets! IL the men in
the stone house could have seen other
roads they would have seen each one
SO filled with silent. steadily moving
columns OF men.
a little party of men and horses
turned of from the column and en-
tered the field. Before It was within
the range OF the rifles 1t wheeled, A
shining, glossy little thing pointed at
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Terrible Reprisals Follow Brave Stand
of Farmers and Townspeople
Against the Foe

his sinewy brown hand gripped the
weapon and he fred.
He fired and pumped another car
fridge into the breech and fired again,
no quickly that his second shot had
roared out before a cavalryman who
had pitched forward with the first bull
let through his side had quite toppled
from his saddle.
All along the stone wall they fired
and pumped their magazines and fred.
They were men who had hunt deer
in early autumn cover and learned to
send bullets driving after them at hot
speed on the jump. The big horses
and the big men. broad in the open
road were easy targets. But they
were not deer They were men. More
than one of the rifle bullets went wild
because the marksmans horror shook
his hand.
In the road lay two men flashing in
the dust. Down the road w,nt
bleeding horse that screamed. II
dragged its rider, smashing his face
against the ground. In the field was
a soldier trying to balance himself
on his saddle. with one hand ripping
at his breast while the other reached
out grotesquely. as II cropping for
something to which he might hold.
a farmer behind the wall. unable
to endure the sight Of the men who
were rolling in the road like animals
trying to bury their agony, fired at
them and made them lie still. MY
Cod" he said, and cried.
The wounded man fell from the sad
die and squatted in a queer hunched
ia. la. RAlI htu ha-
tween his knees. 1t was the cavalry
man who had fed the child.
The others scattered and charged
toward the wall. Instantly the d fend-
ers became cool. Their nerves
stopped jumping. These riders LOOM
ing big, with swords out and fury
in their eyes, CEASED to be men. They
were killers. The farmers shot as
steadily as IL they were aiming AT
deer.
Two riders ESCAPED and galloped
headlong down the road back to Their
forces. The New England men arose
from behind the wall and ran across
the fields to gain the shelter OF wood
lot. Before they could reach 1t there
was a yelling behind them and a dozen
troopers We're in the fields following
them desperately.
ITO the house," cried the Sheriff
He led thu way to an old stone house.
built in Revolutionary times.
The cavalrymen refined up sharply.
A glance at the solid little building
with window openings as dep as en-
brasures showed them that IL was
dangerous. They opened out. remain
ing carefully out OF rifle shot. and
surrounded the place wher' they
could watch 1t from all sides. Then
one rode back swiftly.
The watchers sat, easy and care
less. as IL they had been halted during
peaceful practice march. Half an
hour passed. The immobility of the
soldiers, their passionless watch. was
driving the farmers frantic. More
than once the old leader had to growl
at a man who wanted to fire despite
the hopeless distance.
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This incohcrent uprising was dis
organizing all his tactics. From the
western army that had set out To
sweep through Connecticut came word
that everywhere patrols had been at
tackled. Men in swift power boat
on the Thames River above New Lon
don had succeeded in three places in
firing on scouting parties with Il
Hotchkiss rifle, apparently taken, from
IA yacht.
The line north II Norwich along
the same river reported four men
killed from ambush. At Willimant!c
there had been firing from mill build
ings. which had been destroyed for
punishment.
The commander of the brigade that
was advancing on. Worcester in Mas
SachusettS from Connecticut had
halted this advance and was asking
headquarters If the extent of the dis
order was great enough to imperll
his communications.
The eastern division. moving on Bos-
ton. reported that the patrols had
been ordered in from the line North
Middleboro- East Middleboro- Ply mouth.
"Our men can move only in consider
able force" reported the commander.
Small parties are constantly in dan
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THE INVASION OF AMERICA-NEW ENGLAND RISE
The Iron Circle Draws About Boston
and the Reduction of Her
Defences Begins

ger Of being assassinated. The popu-
lation appears to be in a frenzy. Seven
cavalry at Nemasket engaged in for
aging for their horses were burned
alive in a barn. We have fired the
town. 1t is still burning. Have shot
ten citizens"
my men are getting out Of hand
telegraphed the commander Of a bril-
gade moving toward Mansfield. stern
reprisals required at once"
LET them have it," said the COM
mander in chief.
instant retaliation" said the field
telegraph to the armies. "Order all
brigade commanders to execute dis
orderly civilians in most public and
exemplary manner possible. Attach
placard to bodies proclaiming why
punishment was incurred. Divisional
commanders are empowered in their
discretion to order partial or total
destruction Of offending cities"
The commanders transmitted the
orders TO their regimental command
ers, and these to the officers Of their
battalions and companies. Crush all
disorder with utmost severity" they
said. What 1t meant was: XIII. burn
and DESTROY" 1t meant: set fury
against fury" 1t meant: Let your
men go!"
1t meant what a war Of soldiers
against battling civilians in a con-
quered country always has meant.
Both sides had seen their dead. Both
sides were maddened. Now the men
with arms, restrained no longer by
cold discipline, broke loose.
Then New England saw such deeds
as that quiet landscape never had
framed since the days Of its old In
dian wars. and perhaps not even then.
1t saw housewives hanging from bud
ding apple trees, with placards pinned
to their breasts saying that they had
helped to murder soldiers. 1t saw
New England people who twenty
four hours earlier would not have
killed a chicken without a pang Of pity
surround solitary soldiers and do them
to death with their bare hands while
they begged for mercy. 1t saw I'M
armed citizens seized on the roads and
hustled to walls and shot while they
We're screaming for somebody in au-
thority that they might prove their
innocence.
The authorities OF a score of towns
were hanged in their town squares
because troops had been fired on. In
many a park that never had seen any
thing more formidable than children
at their play hung dead men in a
row-the executed hostages who paid
for the acts OF men whom they had
not known. a thousand men and
women of Connecticut and Massachu-
sets, ii was reported later. were
shot or hanged in that one afternoon.
And over the two states. rising
slowly and spreading until the sunny
sky was darkened. there hung. like
a funeral curtain over the place of
death. the black smoke of burning
villages and towns.
When that April day ended and
the night came down there was no
place in eastern Connecticut, in all
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Part Six of the startling Nara
tive fact story. based on the
memorable mathematics of war.
What would happen to America
il invaded. as was Belgium.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-17
QUESTION OF TAXES.
COMES TO SUPREME COURT
United Cigarette MncIIine Compuny
PROTESTS Payment on Ground Tint
II Is british Corporations.
LSpcc!al 20 The Tirnes-Disnatch

H.
LENCllBUEG, VA, December lG-C
Il. Garnet. Assistant Attorney General
o. the state. was In conference here
yesterday with N0lncy l.. Howard and
y. II. Light. vino are representing the
county OF Campbell! ia the litigation in
F"''ihs Inc "ssessmcni OF back taxes
Gsainst the United Cigarette Machine
Company. The conference was TO ar
range FOR the argument OF the States
appeal. which 10 set for hearing by
tHc state Supreme Court OF Appeals at
Rio hinond on January &
The suit involves about $50 900 In
actual taxes which have been assessed
:cr 1918 and six years prior to that by
II. =. Jones, commissioner OF the rev
cnue OF the district IN which the com
''ahE's plant in the suburbs OF Lynch
burg Is located.
Tie company pctitioned Judge
Barksoalc, Of the County Circuit Court.
for reduction IN the assessments
made by Commissioner Jones, and in
that court the decision was adverse
10 the claim OF III" state. county and
H'ockvi!lc magisterial district. where
upon AN appeal was noted to the high
est court I'm tho state by tho attorneys
representing the state. couny and dis
tric,
'Ehen the controversy was argued
oetore the Circuit Court, Judge Banks
u.''e Ht!o that the United Cigarette
Machine Company beng British cor
porttion, was not liable 10 taxation in
Nir@inia upon any OF it's Intangible
ilHprFtF, hui At that time ordered an
assessment OF considerable amount
on It's tangible property that had bean
omitted Tor taxation ior several years
IN" stare. county ana district. Il is
understood viii make u fight before
~" supreme Court for tic taxing of
me intangible holdings OF the COM
'"L|' rcSafdleSs OF tho fac, that it
"h'fHtcs under foreign charter. The
question OF 1913 taxes is not involved
IL the appeal, but the taxes Of tn.
company Cor this year will be fixed in
accordance with tho decision OF the
court following the argument OF coun-
sci in RIchmond in JanMnrN.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-17
TEN SurTCASES FOUND
PACKED WITH LIQUOR

Especial To TIL" Times DspStch.l
RALEIGH. y. G.. December I6.--The
most sensational arrest made here in
long time in enforcement of the pro-
hibition law. occurred to-day, when the
police arrested w. NJ. Written for hav-
ing N his automobile 365 pints Of Ii
iuorS packed in ten suitcaSes He had
Just stopped his machine at the resi-
urncc OF John L. Smith. having been
10 Petersburg for the whisky. He
claims that he made the trip for Smith
anu has been released under bond with
states evidence immunity for impli-
eating Smith. Il wealthy former saloon
Keeper who will answer charges to-
morrow.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-17
No DECISION YET REACHED
IN DtRRI.'I"rf. MURDER rsSI,
I Spccial u The Times Disnoich

IHptcla! % The Times Dspatch.l
CHA Rl.olTESNll.LE. VA. December
i''--Nfter being out over an hour. tho
jury III the case of William o. Dur
'eite, leading young farmc- of Albc-
marie. on trial in the Circuit Court
Tor the past four days for killing Guy
AhanS, on the latters farm last June.
reported ~ ? o'clock Tonight that il
I1u'u not agree but was told by Judge
riShournc TO consider the matter fur
ther and see il 1t could not reach n
verdict by o'clock Tomorrow morn
ing Durrette claimed that Adams at
tempted TO strike MIN with a hoe. and
In the scuilic which followed. his pis-
t"i was discharged. The bullet en-
tered Adams's forehead ami c,,.o,
almost instant death
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-17
.HOPEWELL SOON WILL Be
ELECTRICALLY LIGHTED
Installing OF Current in Wonder Cit ,
Delayed Only About One
Week by Fire.
MANY BUILDINGS UNDER WAY
Structures of Concrete, Brick and
Steel Arc Rising Rapidly From
Sites Where Only Week Ago Stood
Cheap, Frame ShackS.
Especial TO The Times Dispatch. ]

lfDPEW ELL, VA. December i6.-rh.
llopeweil fire will delay for about Il
week the coming of electricity to Hope
well. The Prince George Electric Com
pany. whose poles wee destroyed dur
ing the fire. announces that the Wonder
City will he lighted by electricity by
the first OF the year.
MI OF the new buildings now beints
erected are being wired, and the Powder
Town VIII present an entirely different
appearance by February. AZ many of
the buildings will bcIcomplctcd by that
time.
Severa! brick and concrete buildings
ar" being erected IN the sites OF former
frame structures The site of the for
mcr Dudley Hotel, large frame struc-
ture, will b. takcr. 10y a modern three
story brick and concrete store and Office
building The walls OF this building
already have reached one story in
height.
Five brick stores on Hopewell street
between AppomattoX Street and the
river, which were under construction
befor" the fire, are being rushed to
completion, and will soon be ready for
occupancy.
Values of property in IIopewen has
advanced nearly 100 per cent since the
fire, showing that. despite the great
loss. investors still have confidence IN
the future OF the town
Lawrence Perry, president Of tn.
Chamber OF Commences. in commentinl;
on Hopewell, said Men who were ut
first dazed and stunned over their losses
have rallied and with q determination
born Of the spirit which has prevailed
In Hopcwcll from the day the city was
born, are going 10 work to rebuild in a
more substantial way than ever be-
fore"
Work on the second OF two large
freight warehouses, which the Norfolk
"h' Western is erecting at iIopcw"ll
was begun to-day. Each oil the struc.
lures Will be about 300 feet long hy
60 feet wide The first Of the. Two f.;
about completed, and will he ready fur
occupancy within TWO or three DAYS
The Southern Express Company is
erecting a large frame building about
20" feet long by 80 feet vide Work
on this building was also started to-
day.
The Norfolk and Western passenger
station, which is also under construc-
ton. Will be about 200 feet lon. bv
30 feet wide. rhc four buildings will
stretch along the railroad track for a
distance OF several hundred yards. and
already are beginning to present an
imposing appearance. The Western
Union Telegraph Company will he quar-
tered in the Southern Express Comrany
building.
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yet testified Notwithstanding the
great interest in the trial as mani
Tested by The large crowds present,
there was no difficulty In securing Il
jury. which "as soon impanelcd, and
much Roadway Was made in the case.
Judging from the number of witnesses
summoned several days will he con-
Suincd in the trial.
me defense Won out To-day in the
only legal point of Importance thus
Tar raised. wien Judge Fletcher re-
used To admit tie alleged dying state
iheht OF McCrcady. commonwcalth'S
Attorney Doughty is being assisted by
;. j. TurlinSton while the defense is
represented by Gunter. Mapp. White
ana SoncrS.
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