The Invasion
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Le Queux William. The Invasion
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. STATE OF SIEGE DECLARED
CHAPTER VI. HOW THE ENEMY DEALT THE BLOW
CHAPTER VII. DESPERATE FIGHTING IN ESSEX
CHAPTER VIII. DEFENCE AT LAST
CHAPTER IX. BRITISH SUCCESS AT ROYSTON
CHAPTER X. BRITISH ABANDON COLCHESTER
CHAPTER XI. FIERCE FIGHTING AT CHELMSFORD
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. GERMANS SACKING THE BANKS
CHAPTER VIII. DEFENCES OF SOUTH LONDON
CHAPTER IX. 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 nightworkers 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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The special edition of the "Evening Star," issued about six o'clock on Tuesday evening, contained another remarkable story which threw some further light upon the German movements. It was, of course, known that practically the whole of the Norfolk and Suffolk coast was already held by the enemy, but with the exception of the fact that the enemy's cavalry vedettes and reconnoitring patrols were out everywhere at a distance about twenty miles from the shore, England was entirely in the dark as to what had occurred anywhere else but at Lowestoft. Attempts had been made to penetrate the cavalry screen at various points, but in vain. What was in progress was carefully kept a secret by the enemy. The veil was, however, now lifted. The story which the "Evening Star" had obtained exclusively, and which was eagerly read everywhere, had been related by a man named Scotney, a lobster-fisherman, of Sheringham, in Norfolk, who had made the following statement to the chief officer of coastguard at Wainfleet, in Lincolnshire:
"Both Ted and I stood staring at the unusual sight, wondering whatever it meant. They came on very quickly, however – so quickly, indeed, that we thought it best to move on. The biggest ships went along to Weybourne Gap, where they moored in the twenty-five feet of water that runs in close to the shore, while some smaller steamers and the flats were run high and dry on the hard shingle. Before this I noticed that there were quite a number of foreign warships in the offing, with several destroyers far away in the distance both to east and west.
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