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' T H E 'F--A-T-'H“-E R L A N D
against.XVrest ‘Point. I Retreating from one prepared position to an-
other, O'Hagan led the enemy on, southward between the moun-
tains, then westward over a broken plateau to a great, towering,
terraced hill, which army engineers had meanwhile made a Gibraltar.
O'Hagan apparently permitted himself to be trapped there; but when
the enemy came on with intent to storm his position, such showers
of death met them that they recoiled, and, sat down to a siege. But
bigger guns than they had brought in their pursuit had been em-
banked on the bill, so they had to retire to a safe distance and hope
that starvation would reduce the Americans. But that had been pre-
pared for by storing huge supplies of food on the hill, and by keep-
ing open one narrow road to central New York. So Sir John French
had to send some of his big guns from their positions before West
Point. Laboriously they were brought and placed in position on
October 3rd. Then O'Hagan, sacrificing his guns and some 6,000
of his men, successfully drew off his force through a mountain gorge
so narrow that airmen could not detect it, into the frowning Cats-
kills and over a divide into'the valley of the Esopus, and so again
to Kingston Then word was sent ‘by wireless to the new force
which New York City and its surrounding towns, during its second
month of respite, had raised, drilled and armed. Advancing from a
base at Middletown, into the Roundout Valley, it struck the enemy
force retiring to Kingston after its hollow victory at East Hill, and
this force, trapped between the new volunteers and O'Hagan's vet-
erans, surrieiidered. General French ordered 30,000 reinforcements,
which were coming down the Hudson, to enter the Roundout Valley
and trap O'Hagan; but these, surprised by his appearance in double
the expected force, were quickly scattered. The Americans pursued
them up the Hudson to Albany, capturing enroute great stores of
munitions and supplies, totally cutting off General French's army
before lVest Point. The latter began a distressed retreat, and caught
between O'Hagan and the reinforced XVest Point garrison, sur-
rendered on the 8tl1 of November.
The crushing defeat of the invaders of New York really paralyzed
the Allies. England, realizing that she had again courted disaster
by saving her own precious men while sending allies and colonials
to fight her‘ battles, now sent expeditions to Canada. Canadian sub-
marines, which, in violation of the treaty between England and tile
United States, had been in the Great Lakes since 1915, suddenly at-
tacked shipping in the harbors of Chicago, Cleveland and other lake
cities, while expeditions landed at Detroit and Buffalo, ruthlessly
suppressed citizen resistance, and built lines of trenches and re-
doubts around those cities. An English force penetrated from Erie,
133., as far as Pittsburgh, but was halted before that important man-
ufacturing city. The Japanese and Mexicans, who had swept
through Texas, joined-with French marines.and Turkos and com-
pelled the surrender of New Orleans and the army of General
Barry. Japs and Mexicans withdrew westward, the others pushed
“D the Mississippi. The Turcos, aided by British West Indian ne-
gro agitators, stirred up terrible black revolts in the South, which
were only suppressed by the loyalty of the masses of the negroes.
St. Louis was captured after :1 stubborn resistance, but at Cairo the
invaders were halted by a volunteer army. A force of Northwest-
ern Mounted Police, which struck down the Red River of the North
and the Great Northern Railway, destroying millions of bushels Of
Brain, was called back to suppress a revolt of American and Gama“
farmers in “Western Canada. The situation of the Union was still
Drecarious; it was split in several directions, its chief food-produclhg
States cut off from the great consuming cities, its metal district and
cotton belt cut off from the producingicentres; but the enemy's
offensive power had gone. America had rallied. Arms, munitions,
supplies were being produced in almost suliicient quantities; armies
had been drilled. From Kentucky and Tennessee came grim m0‘-m‘
taineers; from the cities came the Germans, ‘Scandinavians and
Irish; from mine and mill rallied Hungarian, Bohemian, Russian,
Italian, lVelsliman, Scot, Pole and Slovak; the JCWS 55"‘ bflgades
which earned undying glory; from farm and ranch the scions of
those Americans who had won the Revolution hastened to battle
the one eternal enemy of American liberty. Trench to trench the)?
faced the foe, at Lake Champlain, Buffalo, Cleveland, Pittsburgh.
Cairo, and along the ridges of the Rockies.
The English, having been chiefly busy Captuflng Ameflfan mar"
kets, had neglected to provide adequatel)’ for their “1““m,0’l5 SUP’
Dlies, and now purchased huge quantities in Germany. This was
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profitable business, for Germany, and new plants sprang up. The
trade became so notorious that the United States protested. The
German government replied that German manufacturers had a legal
right to supply munitions to all purchasers, and would gladly sell
to America only that, unfortunately, England ruled the seas. The
German government sustained its position with many apt quotations
from the notes Mr. XVilson and Mr. Lansing had sent to Germany
and Austria-Hungary in reply to their protests against the American
trade in death during the Great War, and from the speeches of Mr.
Roosevelt and the editorials of American newspapers. But while
the American government was unable to answer, the heart of Amer-
ica burned with indignation as they saw German shells and bullets
make American corpses, American invalids, American widows and
orphans.
In the midst of this situation, the great English liner Maizrctaizia,
especially constructed with English government money on lines that
made her adaptable for transport purposes, oliicially a part of the
English navy. and supposed to be armed, was sunk by an American
submarine oh‘ Halifax. Among those lost were about one hundred
German citizens, most of them contractors on their way to Canada
to confer with the military commanders about munitions needs.
The American government issued a statement showing the naval
character of the Illaurciaizia, and that she carried great quantities
of munitions, reservists and contractors. and was, therefore, a legiti-
mate object of attack. The German government, however, issued
a. threatening note, practically demanding that the United States
cease to use its new submarines, its only means of naval defense.
But there had been growing in Germany a strong sentiment against
the export of munitions to the Allies. Led by Dr. Beriiliard Dem-
burg, this movement at last won the support of the leading news-
papers and public men. Dr. Dernburg pointed out that it was the
German munitions on board the Mauretania which had been re-
sponsible for the submarine attack and for the explosion which sank
the ship in ten minutes. The keen and fair-minded German people
saw that the situation of 1915, when Germany and America. came
near to war over the Lu.n'!am'a and Arabic incidents and the export
of American munitions to the Allies, was now ‘reversed. The second
German note to the American government admitted the necessity
and right of the American submarine warfare, and promised effec-
tive steps to prevent German citizens sailing on ships containing
munitions of war. And on January 1, 1921, the German people
celebrated a new humanitarian era, as the law passed by the Bundes-
rath forbidding‘ the sale of implements of warfare to any nation at
war, became effective. . ‘ .
My readers will remember that the English press, and the Con-
tinental press through English sources, reeked with stories of
American atrocities from the day that England declared war. But
when the Allied invasion began to fail, the turgid stream of abuse
swelled to an angry torrent; and the climax was reached when the
Americans began to use the “Hying dragon." l
The “flying dragon" was invented by that great American genius,‘
Hudson Maxim. It is an aerial torpedo sustained by wings, pro-
pelled by a motor, charged with an incomparably deadly gas, guided
by wireless waves, and exploded either by contact or by wireless
detonation. I have seen this deadly engine in operation, guided
surely to its place by a wireless operator toying with little electrical
keys in an observatory, breathing death to whole battalions, turning
trenches into the graves of hundreds of men distorted into every
posture of agony. Every factory was put to work turning out these
engines, and soon the trenches of the invaders were being steadily
pushed,back at every point. And the English, ignoring their own
use of gas bombs, shrieked that Americans were “a race of bar-
barians who have forfeited their place among civilized nations."
I had the sad pleasure of putting before German readers the facts
about Allied atrocities in this war: the burning of homes and cities,
the cruel fate of thousands of women and girls, the savage re-
pression of the patriots of California, the hideous negro uprising;
and all the nameless cruelties inflicted on a white people by other
whites and their Japanese, Mexican, Hindu and Senegalese mercen-
aries, to further the plots of the gang of English politicians for
whom humanity blushesl
(The iiax! i'ii.rtalnmiI will show how the United State: and Ger-
many freed the -world.)