The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-11

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trail pastures that had not echoed to a
ruder sound than the lowing OF cows.
and they saw them vanish away In
red storm and did not weep
Dynamite! Dynamite. went the
word through Massachusetts and Con-
necticut. This was something that the
unnrmed country had and that It knew
how to use. Even the peaceful farm
ers had it and were practced in han
ding It from long work in blowing out
stumps and rocks. Irish construction
gangs, italian road makers, workers of
every tongue and race from pits and
uuarries, Joined the New England men
They blew up sunken road through
which artillery was numbering. They
blasted away steep bank and buried
a troop of cavalry. They blew up a
mined road In front of infantry, and
when it retreated sprang q second
mine under the soldiers feet that ex-
Terminated battnlion.
Railroads and roads were blown up
before advancing troops and behind
them. Men blew up bridges and pre-
vented their own escape so that the
armed forces caught them as In trap
and slaughtered them at leisure, Via
ducts and works were dynamiteds TINT
never could have been of any lise to
the enemy. 1t was formless. system
less desuuction-bHt in that very lack
Of system lay tts 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 dispos-
ed of them In an action SO simple that
they might scarcely have named It q
skirmish. But this was like forest
IRE, that, stamped out in one spot.
breaks into roaring dume In another
AS it sweeps from tree tops to tree
TOPS and creeps underground ana
flames out In quick fury miles away,
no the war IRE raved through Massa-
chusetts and Connecticut to be crushed
ont only In detail with detailed, bitter
work through all that long, hot dusty
day.
It was serious. This uprising OF an
undiseipiIned population could not De
feat or even damage seriously the great
army. But It could hamper It IL
would force a wide scattering OF troops
to break down the sporadic opposition
II would make a dangerous county
dangerous in front of the advancing
soldiers, dangerous In their rear, CON
ttnually dangerous around them
In that. sense Il. was more serious
than deliberate military opposition by
the American army would have been.
Had the enemy commanders faced only
= defending army it would have been
4 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-
coded before each other there, fighting
only when it was forced on them, and
SO, gradually, properly, they would
have cleared the board that the great
game might be played.
This incoherent uprising was dtsor-
Ranizing all his tactics. From tue
western army that had set out TO
sweep through Connecticut came Woro
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 IA
firing on scouting parties with Hotcn-
kiss rife. apparently taken from
yacht
The line north of Norwich along the
same river reported four men killed
from ambush. At Wiilimantdc there
had been firing from mill buildings,
which had been destroyed for punish
ment
The commander OF the brigade that
was advancing on Worcester, IN Mas
sachusetts, from Connecticut had halt
ed his advance and was asking head
quarters IL the extent of the disorder
we've great enough to imperA his COM
naunicat1onB.
The eastern division, moving on Eos
ton. reported that the patrols had been
ordered in from the line North Middle
bono. East MiddIeboro and Plymouth.
AOur men can move only In consid-
erable force" reported the commander.
4.small parties are constantly in dan
ger of being assassinated The popu-
Iation appears to be In a frenzy. Sew
on cavalry at Nenasket engaged IN
fora1ing for their horses were burned
alive in barn. We have fred the
town. It is still burning. Have shot
ten citizens"
.sAfy men are getting ont OF hand,
telegraphed the commander or bri-
gade moving toward Mansfield. stern
reprisals required at once"
."Let them have 1T" said the COM
mander In chief.
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New Enaiand,s Funeral Curtain. q
o. INSTANT retaliationT' said the
field telegraph to the armies