The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-25

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s reserved.
Ience was lifted only when nswspaperB
or pIacards printed some new procla-
nation In formal. legal verbiage-
The first one to be issued hnd pro-
claimed the occupation and the institu-
ton OF a military government 1t had
added that the existing civil authort-
ties had been empowered and ordered
to CONTINUE their Administration with
the sanction and participation OF the
miIitaxy government and that all civil
and criminal laws remained In effect
subject to changes demanded by milf
tary exigency.
But Immediately under this an
nouncement was a paragraph headed:
LAWS SUSPENDED.
On ana after this date the Following
classes OF laws are suspended: ID the
right to bear arms. Cd The right OF SUI
frage. 90 The right of asoemblase. 90
The right to publish newspapsrs or eiF rS,l.
occupied territory or travel freely IN
same.
Another announcement that struck
home after the people saw its real
meaning under its smooth wording
was:
Tho municipal and other civil and GRIM
inal laws as administered by the civil an-
-thorities ore for the benefit and protection
of the civilian population. Their comm aaI
ued enforcement IS not for the protection
or control of officers and soldiers or-the
occupying army. who are subject to the
rules of war and amennbie only TO fneif
own military governpent.
A few days after the surrender peo-
pie along the water front noticed
great movement OF vessels. Isie D1g
Fail River line and other sound steam
ers moved up the North river toward
Yonkers In long procession, with some
steamships seized Mt the wharves.
The next day they came down the
river again. They were full OF troops.
Some Of the vessels towed railroad
floats with fat cars, on which were
.ashed cannon 80 big that even from
tho shore the eye could perceive their
unusual size. Other craft towed
strings of small scows. and still others
towed floating derricks.
The flotilin passed down the upper
bay, but it did not go out through the
Narrows. 1t disappeared In the mar
row waterway of the Kill Won kull
TINT winds between Staten Island and
the mainland OF New jersey and con-
meets with the lower harbor through
Raritan bay.
The story of the mysterious fiotilla
spread quickly through city whose
lack of newspapers made its appre-
hensiye curiosity only the more keen.
Robbed of its news and bulletin sery-
ice, the people, without any conscious
plan.s had organized news service OF
their own. They had fallen back on
the primitive method OF circulating In
formation from man to man.
The citizens committee and the city
officials, however, were RhIe to guess
pretty clearly what this movement OF
troops and heavy artillery meant.
There was nothing in the lower harbor
that possibly could demand such force
except one place-the forts on Sandy
Hook, the last remaining harbor de-
Tense that still was under the Ameri-
can flag. Solitary though it was. 80
long as It remained intnct it forbade
the entrance OF New York harbor to
any hostile vessel.
There had been wonder before be
cause the enemy commander had not
demanded the surrender of the Sandy
Hook defcnses under threat of bonn
harding the city, as he had demanded
and forced the surrender OF Forts
Hamilton and Wadsworth.
Because Sandy Hook is not within
the city, as the other two forts were"
was the solution at which the city's
lawyerg arrived after considering the
rules governing military action. The
invader plainly is adhering carefully to
all the accepted rules OF war. By do
ing SO he can and does hold US to nc
count vigorously under the same rules.
THIS is profitable to him, for despite all
their apparent stipulations in favor OF
a coAquered territory the rules OF wax
are made, after all, to facilitate war;"
Il was impossible to. warn the COM
mander Mt Sandy Hook. Private serv-
ice over the telephone and telegraph
systems was suspended entirely. Tho
tire alarm system was operated under
the watchful control Of soldiers. In
%ci,co headquarters sat a colonel OF
cavalry, whose counteesign vas neces'
eary for every order Issued By the Po-
lice commissioner.
This was stern officer, vino held
the poNce force In hard, masterful
hand. The men We're accountable more
than ever for strict enforcement OF
all laws, but they were subject also 70
summary control by every military Of
ficer. Even guards and posts OF pri-
vate soldiers had some authority over
them. There were many daily expert.
ences and sights in their streets that
served to make the people tractable.
but few things were so powerful as
the daily spectacle OF their pugnacious
police yieiding sullen but complete ODE
dience.
ut is unlawful to disobey orders Civ
en- by our army This short reguln-
tion covered great deal. Il tied the
poles and the citizens hand and foot.
On Snndv Hook. fifteen miles down