The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-11
Continued from Fourth Page.

dozen other towns, with machinery
hastily assembled and workmen hastily
learning they were trying now to
make projectiles enough and guns
enough. They were trying to make
enough powder down in Delaware and
New Jersey.
In the encampment Of the United
States army at that moment trains
were delivering guns-guns made in
record time. magnificent testimony to
American efficiency under stress. But
the guns were coming in one by one
to meet an enemy who was beating
a, the gates and could not be stopped
except with hundreds.
Even then the flagship of the coast
was sputterng a code into the night
It was long code. but its meaning
was short. 1t meant Now"
The mine sweepers hauled their gear
and came out. Fourteen had gone in.
Those that came out were nine.
Before they had we'll begun to move
the beach was white with ships boats
and 900 blue jackets and marines set
20, on the mainland Of the United
Sta,es>
The boats were scarcely off the
beach to return to the ships before
500 Of these units were trotting
through the upland. throwing out ad-
vance parties and making hasty
trenches from which in "A moment
there looked the greyhound muzzles OF
machine guns.
on the shore the strand party was
sinking sand anchors and rigging der
r.cks Others were setting together
the 5i2 foot sections of jointed hollow
masts for the wireless. When the
boats htached again with more men
two 10 foot masts reached into the
night and hand power generators
were making the antennp pulse with
their mysterious life.
Launches came IL now, dragging
wide HAT bottomed pontoons and
swinging them onto shore and speed
ing back for more. Men snatched at
them and held them in the surf and
ran their mooring up the beach. while
others carried out Hedges and boat
anchors from all sides to make them
lie steady in the ground swell.
The beach shone white as day all
at once. The destroyers had steamed
in ana were giving their men aid with
their searchlights.
IT, swung more pontoons Broad
side To- broadside, kedged and anchored
cut they were moored out into the
sea OF half a dozen parts of the beach
Laid FIR enough apart that they should
not touch. however hard the swell
might strive TO grind them together,
they formed floating piers reaching
beyond the farthest outer line of surf.
From pontoon to pontoon ran gang
llanks lashed fast.
Three hours had passed Three times
tie ships boats had made the trip
between warshps and shore-thirty
naval service cutters, each carrying
thirty mon. Twenty-seven hundred
sailors marines and soldiers were hold
!ns 'ho RhoLe Island coasts
From the trenches OF the advance
party a wireless spoke to the cruiser
he1Ia1 the senior officer: Motor
scouts reported in front on road 5000
yards .u. VIII fire rocket indicating
direction"
Tho rocket burst. For a minute il
mad" all that part OF the black coun-
try stand out as under lightning.
crash said the ship. over the blue
Jackets swept the shells and burst.
"'ra'h!' said another ship.
apparently effective" said the
wireless again. "Shall send patrols
forward And again it spoke in half
an hour: Enemy driven back. Our
patrols hold road. Barb wire entan-
elements completed. Scouts in. Report
,"hd clear except for enemy cavalry
~ Tore" inland out OF range"
Now said the cruisers wirless,
speaking once more into the sea.
SH"nt, formless, black, four vast
shpS long and twice as tall as the
cruisers, came slowly in among them.
These were the transports, sealed
mat rot thread Of light should shine
from them TO betray them to the thing
mat all the fleet dreaded more than
anything else, the underwater lance OF
submarinc's torpedo.
IWosCorc destroyers each of thirty
knots, each armed with from four to
ven men guns and rapid firers. cir
c''d around the transports. Twice as
S"II' AZ the surface speed of the
S"'''''t submarine, armed over
-, troops cannot be landed Uith as
n,r' d"'HB as this. But naval tactics
oSN""'F as matter Of course that an
'"'oH'' body Of biueJdckets, trained for
C'oeh h"d suri tcork. con effect m i'm
=" ''' 'ahdinD u protected from at
Lord Cochran landed $4,000 men
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