The Invasion of 1910
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Le Queux William. The Invasion of 1910
BOOK I. THE ATTACK
CHAPTER I. THE SURPRISE
CHAPTER II. EFFECT IN THE CITY
CHAPTER III. NEWS OF THE ENEMY
CHAPTER IV. A PROPHECY FULFILLED
CHAPTER V. OUR FLEET TAKEN UNAWARES
CHAPTER VI. FIERCE CRUISER BATTLE
CHAPTER VII. CONTINUATION OF THE STRUGGLE AT SEA
CHAPTER VIII. SITUATION IN THE NORTH
CHAPTER IX. STATE OF SIEGE DECLARED
CHAPTER X. HOW THE ENEMY DEALT THE BLOW
CHAPTER XI. GERMANS LANDING AT HULL AND GOOLE
CHAPTER XII. DESPERATE FIGHTING IN ESSEX
CHAPTER XIII. DEFENCE AT LAST
CHAPTER XIV. BRITISH SUCCESS AT ROYSTON
CHAPTER XV. BRITISH ABANDON COLCHESTER
CHAPTER XVI. FIERCE FIGHTING AT CHELMSFORD
CHAPTER XVII. IN THE ENEMY’S HANDS
CHAPTER XVIII. THE FEELING IN LONDON
BOOK II. THE SIEGE OF LONDON
CHAPTER I. THE LINES OF LONDON
CHAPTER II. REPULSE OF THE GERMANS
CHAPTER III. BATTLE OF EPPING
CHAPTER IV. BOMBARDMENT OF LONDON
CHAPTER V. THE RAIN OF DEATH
CHAPTER VI. FALL OF LONDON
CHAPTER VII. TWO PERSONAL NARRATIVES
CHAPTER VIII. GERMANS SACKING THE BANKS
CHAPTER IX. WHAT WAS HAPPENING AT SEA
CHAPTER X. SITUATION SOUTH OF THE THAMES
CHAPTER XI. DEFENCES OF SOUTH LONDON
CHAPTER XII. DAILY LIFE OF THE BELEAGUERED
CHAPTER XIII. REVOLTS IN SHOREDITCH AND ISLINGTON
BOOK III. THE REVENGE
CHAPTER I. A BLOW FOR FREEDOM
CHAPTER II. SCENES AT WATERLOO BRIDGE
CHAPTER III. GREAT BRITISH VICTORY
CHAPTER IV. MASSACRE OF GERMANS IN LONDON
CHAPTER V. HOW THE WAR ENDED
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Two of the myriad of London’s night-workers were walking down Fleet Street together soon after dawn on Sunday morning, 2nd September.
The sun had not yet risen. That main artery of London traffic, with its irregular rows of closed shops and newspaper offices, was quiet and pleasant in the calm, mystic light before the falling of the smoke-pall.
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At Cromer the enemy, as soon as they landed, took possession of the post office, commandeered all the stores at shops, including the West-End Supply Stores and Rust’s; occupied the railway station on the hill, with all its coal and rolling stock, and made prisoners of the coastguards, the four wires, as at Weybourne, having already been cut by advance agents, who had likewise seized the post office wires. A German naval party occupied the coastguard station, and hoisting the German flag at the peak of the staff in place of the white ensign, began to make rapid signals with the semaphore and their own coloured bunting instead of our coastguard flags.
In the clean, red-brick little town of Sheringham all the grocers and provision-dealers were given notice not to sell food to anyone, as it was now in possession of the invaders, while a number of motor-cars belonging to private persons were seized. Every lodging-house, every hotel, and every boarding-house was quickly crowded by the German officers, who remained to superintend the landing. Many machine guns were landed on the pier at Cromer, while the heavier ordnance were brought ashore at the gap and hauled up the fishermen’s slope.
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