The tunnel thru the air : $b or, Looking back from 1940Gann, William D. (William Delbert)
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The tunnel thru the air : $b or, Looking back from 1940
Gann, William D. (William Delbert)
Imaginary wars and battles -- Fiction; Science fiction
On July 20th he had completed all preparations and had all his armies
and all the airships and planes equipped with the sleeping gas
machines. Instructions had been given that they should pass over the
lines from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes, from Los Angeles to
Seattle, and send forth the sleeping gas and put to sleep entire enemy
armies so that they would be kept asleep for 7 days. He decided to
notify all of the Commanding Generals of the Allied Enemy just what
he was going to do so that they would realize and know what power he
had, and instructed them to have all their commanding officers moved
to places where they would not be molested or put to sleep, so that
they might watch and know what was happening. The Allied Enemy were
notified that they could make every attempt to protect themselves but
that it would be useless, because they would be unable to see or hear
the approach of the silent, invisible planes.
He called Colonel Walter Kennelworth and Colonel Edna Kennelworth to
his headquarters. Thanked them for their services to the country;
assured them of his appreciation of their loyalty and devotion and
promoted them to the rank of General. He ordered General Walter
Kennelworth to take charge of headquarters in New York, operate
the sleeping gas machine and to use the "Demon of Death" in case of
emergency. However, he felt sure that there would be no more attacks.
General Edna Kennelworth was ordered to Washington to resume charge in
the Capitol Building and operate the machines for defense if necessary.
In bidding good-bye to his loyal comrades, he told them that he was
going to take Marie the Angel of Mercy, and was going alone to London,
Berlin, Moscow, Madrid, Tokio and destroy buildings in these cities
and with the light ray put every city in darkness, put the people to
sleep and leave them for 7 days. Then he would destroy or conquer every
important city in the world in 6 days, just the same as God created the
world in 6 days, and that on the 7th day he would return to New York
City and await the action of the Allied Nations in regard to peace. He
ordered all of the countries notified by radio that he would leave New
York City on Marie the Angel of Mercy, which could make 1000 miles an
hour, and when he arrived in London and other cities everyone should be
out of the buildings which he would destroy with the "Demon of Death";
that this was to be a mission of mercy and that he would not destroy
one life if possible but that he must demonstrate the power that he
could destroy all life and buildings if necessary.
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