The Invasion of 1910

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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