The tunnel thru the air : $b or, Looking back from 1940Gann, William D. (William Delbert)
Religion
The tunnel thru the air : $b or, Looking back from 1940
Gann, William D. (William Delbert)
Imaginary wars and battles -- Fiction; Science fiction
The poor and uneducated people of Russia had been warned of his coming.
The newspapers told them what had been happening in other cities, but
the people refused to believe that they would not be destroyed. Many
of them rushed to the waters and drowned themselves. Others went to
the forests to hide. Moscow was more excited than ever before. People
had been praying day and night before he arrived. Finally when he
was over Moscow, he sent a radio message that they should clear all
the important buildings which he was going to destroy. He descended
very low and located the buildings and when he had been notified that
the people had been moved to safety, turned on the "Demon of Death."
As the buildings leapt into flames and the people could see them,
they were sure that this was the end of the world and that God was
destroying it by fire, because they were unable to see the source from
which the destruction was coming, the destroying rays from the machine
being invisible and Marie the Angel of Mercy being invisible. When he
had finished the destruction of the buildings, he turned loose the
sleeping gas, darkened the city and sailed for Constantinople.
He had notified the terrible Turks, who had sent such destructive
airships to help conquer the United States, that he was going to open
the Dardanelles from the air; and destroy the battleships in the Black
Sea. When he arrived and all buildings were cleared, people were
greatly frightened and some of them were praying to America's God to
save them. Supreme Commander Gordon assured them that no lives would
be taken. He then proceeded to destroy all their largest buildings,
discharged the death rays into the water and blew up their ships; left
the city in darkness to sleep in peace.
His next stop was at Alexandria and Cairo, Egypt. He visited the
Pyramids, notified the people that they were placed there according to
a divine plan and that he would not destroy them. He destroyed the main
buildings and blew up the warships, leaving the people asleep as he had
done in other cities.
He notified the people in Bombay, India, that they had taken sides with
England against us and that they must be shown an example of the power
of the Land of Freedom. He destroyed their temples and large buildings
and put the people asleep. Then went to Pekin, China, where he
destroyed buildings which had stood for thousands of years; discharged
the sleeping gas and proceeded to Tokio.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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