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and had dragged the enormous haul
ing seines from their drying reels.
Block Island wondered what a fight
ing navy meant to do with fish nets.
Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard
wondered too: for they also had been
stripped OF their gear.
Following the long lows with their
heaped brown freight, six cruisers
moved toward the coast. each guarded
by destroyers, whose men watched the
sea for a periscope, or for the whit
ened, broken water that would indicate
the presence OF a submarines
They moved fast, until they were
within three miles OF land. Then they
opened fire.
Steaming rapidly up and down, ship
broadside batteries, starboard and port
in turn, simultaneously. So fierce was
the blast that the water shook. All
the surface OF the sea between the
ships and the land quivered. Fantas-
tic vibration ripples shot all around.
like cracks on a shattered steel plate.
3. A submarine cannot attack nntI IL
has risen near enough to the surface to
Hlt its poriscOpe above ,cdtcr. Having
thus obtained its aim IL submcrQCs again
only deep enough to conceal the peri
scope. 1t fires its torpedo blind Whcn
submerged. II II dives too deep il might
send the tOedpon hdrmlcssly under the
ships keel Hence II is possible often TO
spot the disturbed. Whitcmed pdtcr
ADORE a submarine eren though II is
snnkcn out OF sight.
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the arm. Wont they let us have
him." She turned her eyes toward
the dead man. ut don't seem hardly
right-to let him lay there"
"Yes!" answered the officer shortly.
you can have him" With a change
in his voice he added, II am sorry.
Very sorry. Yes! You may take
him away"
So fell brave Block Island It had
greeted the sunrise with the Stars
and Stripes hauled defiantly in the
face Of the invader. The setting sun
shone on the flag Of the enemy. Its
wireless was being operated by uni
formed men. Its telephone and tele-
graph communications with the MAIN
land We're torn out Its little harbors
were being used by destroyers AMI
small craft as IL they had been foreign
naval bases forever.
So too had fallen the islands OF
Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard
with their stout hearted. passion
ately American population. They had
yielded not to ignoble fear, but to
the irresistible mechanics Of war
The people Of Block Island watch
ing destroyers steaming slowly toward
the New England coast with strings
of their fishing boats in tow. noted
a curious thing. Every boat was laden
with fish nets. The enemy had gath
cred every seine. every pound net. He
had lifted long fyke nets from the sea
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fell, and twisted in flame. The land
shrivelled.
As the shells fell on New England's
coast, so the news fell on the United
States. 1t sped as a vast confusion
Of facts and rumors, bewildered tales
of terror, inventions born OF crazed
brains, dispatches that told only half
a story, and messages that told none
at all and yet, in their very incoher-
ence, told more than ineligible words
could have done.
The newspapers were tested that
night, and the steady, intangible disci-
pline of the great organization held
true Never linotype in all the cities
had to wait for its copy. The word
went to the presses to "let her 60"
Extras followed extras.
But the news sped ahead of the ex-
tras. 1t sped, and spread, and grew,
and became monstrous.
The enemy had forced the harbor
defences Of Boston! So ran the rush
ing rumor in New York and Philadel-
phia. Long before trains could carry
1. Target practice near the land has
been found so to affect all ne near by
that II seriously Injuries the commercial
fisheries. The fishermen OF Cape Cod
haze opposed fleet firing several times
On one occasion II IL recorded that the
fishing for Holsters (GrcluSirely bottom
haunting crustdcedns) tods quite ruined
for months o,ciR,g TO the firing OF BIG
gnns.
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What Can Be Done With Our Present
Resources to Oppose an Army
Attempting to Land Upon
Our Shores

of the landing party had been busy
among the huddle Of boats in the
harbor. Some were being made up
into tow. Others were being scut-
tied at their mornings. a third de-
tachment was knocking holes in the
smaller craft hauled up on the shore.2
Three sailors were just driving boat
hooks through the bottom Of an up
turned catboat when a tall young fish,
erman leaped at them with an oaken
tiller handle and struck one down.
The other two closed on him. but
let go again almost instantly at the
sound Of a sharp order. They tore
themselves away and jumped aside.
Th,re was another order in the
same sharp voice. Instantly. while
the fisherman still stood. staring. with
his weapon in the motion of striking,
blast of fire spat at him from six
carbines. His head went up. exposing
his broad brown throat. He thrust
his hands before him. all the fingers
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ton. The acid fumes from their mon
ster powder charges ate out their
scientifically rifed cores. They had
to be spared.
The real attack came from the
heavy cruisers standing close in and
working 4, and s inch guns. For
every shot that the battleships man.
moths fired the cruisers fired a hun
dred. 1t was not bombardment. 1t
was driving fail Of whirling. smash
ing. exploding metal that whipped the
coast between watch Hill and Point
Judith.
To the trained artillerists, listening
In the Narragansett and Long Island
Sound defences. 1t was plain as Eng
lish words. That crash. as il a steel
side had been blown out of a ship, was
the 4 inch broadside. all loosed at once.
Now 1t would be fifteen seconds and
another crash. further east, would tell
of the next ships 1 inch discharge.
And the heavier, fuller, air shaking
roar that came in between was from
8 inch guns, while the broken, slowe-,
6. Hdrbor deJencCs are not con-
structcd, necessarily, to protect places
near them. Their purpose is to prevent
a ndrdl force from occupying an i'm
pOrtdnt hdrbOr ThOSc possession tcOuId
open the Tdy 10 rich territory or lay
commerce PROSTATE Therefore il is no
dcJccf in the construction OF the Long
Island entrance dcJcnccs that il is pos
sible to bonn bard coast places near them
n is physically impossible crcr to de-
fend all the places on our coast pitI
tOrtifcations.
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the story OF the night began to come
in orderly sequence.
The enemy fleet was biting into the
sea vitals of the commercial United
States. the southern coast of New
England between Cape Cod and Long
Island Sound, whose possession is the
key to the manufacturing and indus
trial life of the East.
Battleships lying off the mouth of
Buzzards Bay were dropping shells
into the harbor and into the shores.
One ship had ventured close into the
land. approaching within the zone OF
fire from Fort Rodman. and had
dropped shells near New Bedford.
Hidden by Intervening hills, it had es-
capped return fire, and was now Tying
just out of range. dropping an occa-
sional fifteen inch projeotile toward
the defences.S
Other ships were firing into Nara
Gansett Bay. They too were firing at
immensely long range to avoid return
fire from the defences.
8. As a matter OF fact. the ortrcmo
range OF the present armament OF
American hdrbor dctcnccs is $4,000
yards. This is not a reliably eUcctir,
fighting range. and Is merely stated as
being the extreme range. "undcr crucial
test" OF the IL inch steel ritled morfors
The riJlcd guns as nOW mounted hare a
range OF not more than $4,000 yards
Bdttleships noW being constructed ar,
armed tDith IL aud 10 inch guns thai
can outrGn1c the srtr6m6 Theoretical
range OF the mortars.
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Part Three of the Startling Narrative
Fact Story Based on the MEMORABLE
Mathematics of War-An Answer
to Military Experts

Montauk Points wireless trans
mitted a despatch that three vessels
were standing in there and lowering
boats. Then the apparatus fell silent
Point Judith's wireless had ceased
speaking soon after dusk. Its last de-
spatch was that shells were falling
near 1t. An hour later its operators
reported from Narragansett Pier that
the tower had been destroyed.
Watch Hill and Westerly on Rhode
Islands southwestern border said a
message from nearby Stonington, were
burning and were being wrecked by
heavy shells. Fort Wright tele-
graphed that this was fire from two
battleships standing just outside OF
range from the forts mortars and
rifles and throwing shells from Il inch
gunss
But these great guns were being
used only at intervals. Though their
bite could rend towns, they destroyed
themselves as they wreaked destruc-
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coughing below. that overwhelmed all
the rest and echoed from every echo
making prominence inland, was the
voice OF an s inch rifle, speaking once
every five minutes.
The fire slackened. and died away.
and fell silent. and burst out again as
IL horde Of devils had only held their
breaths to scream anew.
To the survivors who had escaped
from the first red blast the thing
seemed only a deed Of insane wicked
ness. What had they done, they
asked each other with sobb!ng hreaths.
to bring a steel navy at them? What
could a great. powerful enemy gain
by this murder of peaceful. unarmci
country folk? What danger could
there lie to him. they gasped as they
fed through the dark. r lay face
down to the earth and erppci a.
grass. in tiny houses and gardens and
little seashore hamlets?
1t was wicked murder "W.ch.i
murder" said the wires, telling their
tale to their fellow citizens far away.
Far in shore of the flame torn
cruisers. safe from any land nra
under the parabolas of the naval pie
jectiles as IL they were under bonnie
proof arch. certain little vessels hUl
toiled up and down from the begin
ming. Slowly. for they dragged Dee
tween them long wire cables that
hung down to the sea bottom, They
moved back and forth along ,ae
beach, fishing.
The fish they were trying 10 catch
al Il ... 4.
that bore little protuherauccS ~ th"r
tops like the sprout!nS horns
yearling kid.
\ touch as soft as the touch OBJ; D.
lovers hand could drive those l.t'.
horns inward, To awaken a slumn''-
ing little devil of illuminate IF me-
curry. whose sleep is 80 light rhf
mere tap will break it. And the &
inmates explosion would dy,na...
three hundred pounds of guu.n''.'
The submarine mine says o. d.. r
ships: Il am Death And they Die
not answer it,
But there is an answer To the n
1t is the mine sweeper that dra-- -
them. The men on thr~" III.
sweepers dedicate themSolNy~ =.
tomb. Some must inevitably r..-
They will find mine with fs"r -.
instead of their gropnI jrt--
they will grapple one too close.
their wire cable will clutch two M
and swing them together So that
little horns touch.
But, If the mine sweepcrs ar" +
mitted to work on, the mines ma.
and kill. and kill, yet in IN" r.# '.
will be gathered in.
There is an absolute answer 'N
mine sweepers. 1t is T. hammer
with rapid fire from the shug.
little vessels. dragging lah"r.".
present targets that scarutN
No artillerist can miss them.
But again there is an answer
mine protecting guns. II Is .on-
fire from the ships that lie safe.
side of the mine fields.
There is only one answer q.
1t Is for defenders on land O.
huge guns far inland that y.
the ships and beat them back -. ..
they dare not come close rIH..
reach the lesser shore artillery Or
the sea.
This formula of shore dctrn.
formula so simple that M.
tician, given the conditions, can
il out with simple arithmru, p.
he never had seen a cannon
life.
Guns, guns, and again guns
an army To protect them TIL
the only possible reply TO the
that was pounding the coast.
United States had not eroHsN
.ioptly nnwarfnl rn,hil, Ttlsf
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Continued on Filh PH"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-07-08
SUBMARINE H-3 RUNS ASHORE
Crew Is Safe and Other Ships Stand
By-Hope to Be Able to
Float Boat.

San Francisco, California-With a
heavy surf running officials of the
Mare Island navy yard feared the
United States submarine H-3 ashore
south of Point Sur would pound to
pieces on the rocks. The steamship
Arizona was standing by, the monitor
Cheyenne was near and the revenue
cutter McCulloch was approaching the
submarine. No one aboard the vessel
was injured, and no fears were felt
for the safety of the two officers and
Is enlisted men of the crew.
No word has yet been received from
the submarines HI and H-2, which ac-
companied the H-3.
If the rescue fleet at the scene is
unable to help the men aboard the
submarine on account of the surf, the
coast guard boat IrOquois will be sent.
Lieut.. w. F. Newton, commander OF
the HIS, wirelessed that the vessel
has not yet sprung a leak and that
he hoped to float her at high tide. He
stated that the crew was uninjured
Rear Admiral Pond. from his home
in Berkerly, is directing the rescue
fleet by wireless.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-07-08
BLAMES WAR ON INTOxIcANTs
Chicago Socialist Holds European
Struggle Is Due to Decoration
of Humanity.

Denver, Colorado.-"Europe is now
paying the penalty of hereditary al
coholic paranoia. Fear, the unspeak-
able terror produced by war and the
worry of debt and restitution. will
have its mental and physical effect
upon the nations of Europe for so
years to come.
Generations hence scientists will
describe the great world war as the
war of alcoholism nd the period fol-
lowing as the period of regeneration.
THE age of alcoholism is going out
and the age Of radium is coming in.
Radium is the antidote for alcohol,
building up where alcohol tears
down"
These are but a few of the state
ments made by DR.. Charles Gilbert
Davis, physician and scientists of Chi
cago, who is stopping here. To him
the great world war is but the logical
outcome of generations of alcoholic
saturation, with the resultant deterior-
alton of the human race and degen-
Grafton of the mind"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-07-08
IF OFFICER DOES THE WORK,
COUNTY MUST PAY
FOR TT.
TAXPAYERS ARE STUNG AGAIN
Local Courts Took Matter as Joke, but
Supreme Court Says Jurist ls
Entitled to Reasonable sum
For Labor.
Jefferson City.

JenersOn City.
Division No. of the supreme court
delivered a number of opinions and
passed upon a number of motions.
The cases were largely of civil char
acter.
Judge James T. Blair made a ruling,
concurred in by the other members of
the division, that il county officer
does his own janitor work he is enti-
tied to reasonable compensation, and
the county must pay.
The case came up from Texas
county, where Probate Judge T. j.
Hale did his own janitor work and at
the termination of his four years.
term put in a bill of 1894. He also
put in a bill of $40 for telephone rental
for the four years.
According to the record, the county
court treated the matter as joke and
refused TO pay both bills. Hale sued
in the circuit court and lost He APP
pealed to the supreme court Judge
Blair holds there is no law prohibiting
a probate judge or any other county
official from doing his own janitor
work and making the county foot the
bill.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-07-08
TURKS SAID TO Be SLIPPING
EXHAUSTION OF MosLEMs NOW
is EVIDENT.
Six Thousand Killed in Recent French
Advance, Athens Dispatch
Says.

Paris, France.-A Havas Agency dis
patch from Athens says that the ex-
haustion of the Turks facing the
French forces on the Gallipon PENN
sula is evident and leads TO the belief
that the Turkish position at Krithia
will soon be taken by assault. In a
recent advance made by the French,
it is added, 5000 Turks were found
dead in trenches on the front taken.
The Turkish front does not exceed
three and one-quarter miles, which ar
tillery sweeps continually, the Athens
correspondent continues. The Turks
are meeting with growing difficulties
in bringing up re-enforcements and
supplies while the allies have every
facility for supplying their needs.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-07-08
To Keep the Money.

State Senator Carter NJ. Buford of FL
junketing committee, appointed to in
spect the furnishings in the state SEN
ate chambers in other states, hays he
does not intend to return to the treas.
ury the $1,000 appropriated for his
committee until the supreme court
holds his committee cannot lawfully
expend it.
He intends to disregard Attorney
General Barker's opinion to Auditor
Gordon, in which Barker held that the
senate was without authority to APP
propriate money by resolution to be
pail out after adjournment, and that
State Treasurer Deal had no right to
pay these appropriations on legisla-
tive script
Senator Morton and other chairman
of junketing commissions, with appro-
priations aggregating $4,000, take the
same view of the matter as Buford.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-07-08
MODS PILLAGING CAPITAL
REPORT SAYS CONDITIONS IN
MEXICO CITY ARE WORSE.
zapatistas Encourage Rioting, Canada
Wires, and the Lives of For
elgners Are in Danger.

Washington, d. C.--Conditions in
Mexico City are growing constantly
worse, Consul Canada telegraphed
from Vera Cruz.
The Carranzistas were unable to get
into the city, Canada said, and Zapata
officers there were declared to be en-
couraging the populace in violence
and pillaging.
So far as he knew, the consul stat
ed, no foreigners had suffered, but he
considered their situation most pre-
carious.
Canada declared he could see no
hope of an improvement unless the
Carranzistas took the capital or the
railroad was repaired so Red Cross
food supplies can be forwarded.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-07-08
TWO FRENCH TOWNS FINED
AERIAL RAIDS COST CITIES
$4,000 EACH.
Germans Retaliate for Destruction of
consulates in Two Turkish
Towns.

Berlin, Disbursements of
100000 each have been levied against
the French towns of Roubaix and Val
enciennes by the German authorities,
IL was announced.
An official statement said the fines
were ordered in retaliation for the de-
struction by French fiiers of German
consulates in the open Turkish towns
of Halffa and Alexandrette, on May
80 and 81.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-07-08
Busy Session for Commission.

Busy Session for Commission.
Three important cases are set for
argument before the public service
commission in Jefferson City July 10.
One is the application Of all the trunk
line railroads operating in Missouri
for an increase in freight, passenger
and baggage rates. Another involves
the question of the continuous mileage
charge.
The third case is the complaint of
the Merchants Exchange of st. Louis
against the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy, the Quincy, Omaha & Kansas
City, the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul and the Wabash railroads, alleg-
ing that the roads make a rate on
grain and grain products in north
Missouri territory which is favorable
to Chicago and discriminatory against
st. Louis.
In the complaint of the city Of Win
ston, alleging inadequate train service
the Chicago, Rock Island G Pacific
railroad is ordered to stop it's trains
Nos. IL and 4, east-bound, at that
place, to receive and discharge pas
sengers. The road is further directed
to employ station and ticket agent
at that point. This order is effective
July Is.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-07-08
TWO DEAD; THREE MORE SICK
Police Suspect Fort Wayne Man Of
Attempt to Asphyxiate Whole
Family.

Fort Wayne, Indiana. = Matthew
Cooley, 80 years old and his son, Don
did, 10, are dead and his wife and
two daughters are unconscious as the
result of what the police say was a
plan of Cooley to asphyxiate the en-,
tire family.
When police forced open the doors
of the home they found Cooley dead
and other members of the family UNI
conscious from gas. Donald died on
the way 10 a hospital.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-07-08
LOADED LINER HIT IN FOG
kieuw Amsterdam, Detained by Brit
ish Admiralty, Riding Safely
at Anchor in Downs.

Deal, England. - The Holland
American line steamship Nieuw
Amsterdam, having a large number of
passengers on board bound from New
York for Rotterdam, was run down in
q fog by an unknown steamer when
anchored in the Downs.
The port quarter of the transatlan-
tic liner was damaged, but the vessel
still is riding safely at anchor.
This makes the eighth collision in
the Downs within the last three days
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-07-08
Vessel Has 1900 on Board.

New York, N. Y.-The liner Nieuw
Amsterdam sailed from New York
on July Is, with approximately
1900 passengers and a general cargo
for Rotterdam. She should have
reached Rotterdam June rs, but was
detained by the English admiralty.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-07-08
conc 10 cowherd,s FuneraI.

Senator William ]. Stone, Congress
man Dorsey w. Shackleford, Sam B.
Cook OF Jefferson City and several
state officers and prominent Demo
Gratis who attended the capitol corner
stone laying, went to Kansas City to
attend the funeral OF William S. Cow
herd.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-07-08
Two Lines Of trenches Taken.

London, Eng.-A British official
statement issued dealing with the OPP
erations in the Dardaneiles announces
that two lines of Turkish trenches
have been captured to the east of
Saghir Dere and that three lines have
been stOrmed to the west Of that
place.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-07-08
Rondsmen of Huerta HeId.

Ell Paso. Tex.-Frank and Ike AL
derete, bondsmen for Gen. Victoriano
Huerta and Gen. Pascual orozco, were
arrested together with Marcelo Cara
veo, charged with eonspiring to set
on foot military expedition against
q friendly power.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-07-08
Frenoh eIrthe al low Mark.

Paris.-The decline in the birth rate
OF France has been particularly no
ticeable since the war began. The
rate in 1914 averaged 1000 births
daily. but at the beginning Of 1915 the
figures dropped to $50 and there has
been q rapid decline since then.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-07-08
Missing Trawler Believed sunk.

Grimsby, England The trawler
Horatio, which has been missin for
three months, with acrew Of is now
thought TO have been sunk by a sub
marine.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-07-08
win EXCHANGE War Invalid.

Berlin, Among the news items
given out by the Overseas News Agen-
ey for distribution was the following:
'"rhe exchange Of German and French
war invalida will begin on July TO-"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-07-08
Wilson Day at Exposition.

San F'rancisco.-Thousands of San
Franciscans and fair visitors thronged
the grounds of the Panama-Pacific ex-
position to participate in a Woodrow
Wilson day program July q.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-07-08
orIsnt Road Renelusrs ont

Kansas City, Mo.--The three re-
ceiyers Of the Kansas City, Mexico G.
Orient Railroad Co., who nave had
charge of the roads affairs since their
appointment in 1912, were discharged
by Judge John H. Pollock in the fed
eral court in Kansas City, Kan.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-07-08
EnaIIsh praNer for eermans.

London. England needs short, ejac-
ulatory prayers as a Christian anti
dote to the German Colt Strafe Eng
land" (God punish England), said the
archbishop of Canterbury at a public
meeting.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1915-07-08
Fire starta In, Summarize

Newport, r, 1.-The submarine D-4,
tied up at the torpedo station caught
fIre, but little damage resulted. The
submarine had 5000 gallons OF gaso-
line aboard. The blaze was quenched
by use of sand.