The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-04

with machine guns ambushed and cut
up two troops OF cavalry. American
cavalry drove back battalion OF en-
gineers who had begun work on the
railroad at Kingston. At Mantle Two
American motor patrols ran into the
fire of concealed field gun and were
destroyed.
From Fort Niche, on Gull island,
came the news, brought by Montauk
point fisherman who had managed to
make his way across the sound In =
small boat, that men had landed On
that end of Long Island. They had
destroyed all communication iHmedi-
ately and had seized the railroad lead
Ing to New York. but it was iEnpQAst-
BILE to guess how great this force was.
Only one certain fact was developed
from all the news It :was that the
transports were unloading troops still
Suddenly, almost simultaneously, the
American patrols were driven back all
along the line. On front that +eI-
tended quickly, irrestsdbly, clear across
Washington county, R L, from east
to west, the invader army EXPANDED
It seized Watch Htll. Kingston was
occupied I'm force. SNEiclEcord function
was occupied. Earragansett Pier was
flooded all at once with men and guns
with the swiftness OF q blow from
a lighters .ast the invader had struck
and won the entire railroad system OF
the New York. New Haven and Hart
ford railroad in Rhode Island and conn
manded the way to Providence.
The foe had filled his divisions, For
ty thousand men were reaaZ for battle
GU American soil, with 10000 In Fe--
serve on the coast.
Now the wind turned southeast
Point Judith, Rhode Islands cape that
.coastwstse mariners call the EGG hole
began to brew one OF dts April logs,
gray and blind and wet.
It's frat effect was kind to the Amer
leans. The enemy air craft, seeing the
yapory bank growing from the sea,
fed toward their lines. From all Oh
rectioas they came in like gulls nee
ing before a storm. They could not
dare to remain in strange territory.
All their fine maps, all their ingenious
instruments, would be dmpotent against
it They came in and alighted behind
their army.
Freed from them and maskedlby the
fog. the American scouts went forwaN
again and CROPPED once more along the
foes front In an hour field tele-
phones and telegraphs and aerial told
the American commander enough TO
assure him that the enemy's force In
men was at least nearly equal to his
own. He knew, too, that the invader
had brought up preponderating art1i-
elery. Every road, every piece OF ne
gotiable country, was held by guns.
The American army held tight. In
its front. between it and the foe, there
was not q rail line. not a bridge. All
had been destroyed. Behind 1t lay q
perfect railroad system, with long
Trains and giant locomotives under
steam and all the gathered motor We
hicles ready to speed.
So far the fog was kind to the de
tenders. But the invader, too, was
quick to seize its favor.
Long before half dozen men, dress
.ad IKE fishermen. had made their way
ont of Earragansett harbor in small
sloop and had reported at the enemy
headquarters. For month or more
mast they had ;heen fishing for Holsters.
But Ahey had caught more than lob
stere. Their catch lay on the table In
the commanders tent in the form or
charts, With .snnndangs and range lines
In distances. They were maps of the
mine Aelds.
Az soon as the fog began these men
went aboard a mine sweeper. 1T
steamed eastward. followed by the 9th
ars. The sweepers had more than the
cables and erapples that make mine
sHeeper,s outfit, in TOYS on the