The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-30

capture of the house and, bringing buck cts of water, darkened the room again us tkey extinguished the flames which the spies had started.
 "Wnr' President fears war! Army md navy chiefs in all night council at White House! President fears war; 4he scream of a newsboy echoed in the 1etreet. It was dawn. A Gay glow spread over the sky from the east, and the moon, yellow and bright a few mo- ments before, became winter and dim mer. @
 The street lamps went out, and sgarish were the electric lights which Showed the ruin of the salon in the house of the spies. Two police motor wagons backed before the door were Removing the men and the women caught in the house, except the girl :FEo had struggled with Jim Ashby and one of the men who had been on s8rard. An ambulance already had daken the girl to hospital, where Il Nurgeon would repair the artery in her arm cut, by the broken glass. The body of the guard was to be removed { Inter.
 < In the dining room Jim Ashby and sibert spread upon the table he-letters which had been saved. There were only scraps or charred bits in addition tb the bundle Of undamaged papers which Jim had saved; the spies had succeeded in burning or otherwise de- geroying all the rest. Sibert sponged the sheets of paper with a chemical solution which he had brought, and be- tween the lines of typewriting sen- tences of script came out in clear, brown characters.
 How many more letters were there?" Sibert asked '1 got maybe a fourth of those in sight"
 The secret service may gazed down at the letters grimly. '"These are a quarter of the orders they were send ing out from here. Ashby, think of this sort of thing going on all over the country this morning!''
 The newspaper delivery boy was hur- rying up the walk with the morning
 
 later than usual for the last "War Ex- tra' when Jim reached his fathers house.
 4 "A Million Men Calledr' the headline blnred across the top of the front page. X Million Men Needed For Imme- diate Serticev' tf Hostile neet, approaching our shores, Sfuka AuArfcan cco,,t orr,;sor co,ov, Commander Barrett, violating instruc- : tions to take presidents advisers to Hniti. discovers powerful fleet in north Atlantic. Salem fmmediately fired on, but before sinking succeeds in flashing warning to Washington!
 "Hortile fleet contains twenty-six ships of the first line-four, dread naugnts Of the Zeus class, six of the Trajan, four of the, Pharaoh, six of the Sargon and two of the Thor. with four battle cruisers of the Carthage class Fleet more powerful than our strong est combination! Our ships scattered! Army of the prince regent, at least 100000 strong, now on transports or ready to take ship to attack our coasts 60OOO0 men will be landed on our shores within month is enemy's plan To oppose these president calls fol 100000 men for immediate service Tn all night council with cabinet and war chiefs apportionment has been made between states and size of levy required telegraphed to all governors New York leads list with apportion- ment of 10000 soldiers at on1>,, Penn. sylvania asked to supply 100000. Hi. nois required to muster SO,OOO imme diately."
 He looked through the other pages ol