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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: In the Clutch of the War-God - -Author: Milo Hastings - -Release Date: September 26, 2004 [EBook #13526] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IN THE CLUTCH OF THE WAR-GOD *** - - - - -Produced by Roger Taft, grandson of the author, and -Jim Tinsley. - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div style="height: 8em;"><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br></div> - -<h1> - In the Clutch of the War-God -</h1> -<h2> -By Milo Hastings -</h2> - -<h4> -THE TALE OF THE ORIENT'S INVASION OF THE OCCIDENT, AS CHRONICLED IN -THE HUMANICULTURE SOCIETY'S "HISTORY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY" -</h4> -<center> - In three parts, from Physical Culture magazine, July - September, 1911. -</center> - - - -<hr> - - -<a name="2H_PART"><!-- H2 anchor --></a> - -<div style="height: 4em;"><br><br><br><br></div> - -<h2> -PART ONE -</h2> -<a name="2H_FORE"><!-- H2 anchor --></a> - -<div style="height: 4em;"><br><br><br><br></div> - -<p class="blurb"> -FOREWORD: In this strange story of another day, -the author has "dipped into the future" and viewed -with his mind's eye the ultimate effect of -America's self-satisfied complacency, and her -persistent refusal to heed the lessons of Oriental -progress. I can safely promise the reader who -takes up this unique recital of the twentieth -century warfare, that his interest will be -sustained to the very end by the interesting -deductions and the keen insight into the -possibilities of the present trend of -international affairs exhibited by the -author.—Bernarr Macfadden. -</p> -<div style="height: 4em;"><br><br><br><br></div> -<p> -"Kindly be prepared to absent yourself at a moment's notice." It was -Goyu speaking, blundering, old fool. He was standing in the doorway -with his kitchen-apron on, and an iron spoon in his hand. -</p> -<p> -"What on earth is the matter?" asked Ethel Calvert, tossing aside -her French novel in alarm, for such a lack of deference in Goyu -meant vastly more than appeared upon the surface. -</p> -<p> -"I am informed," replied Goyu, gravely, "that there has been an -anti-foreign riot and that many are killed." -</p> -<p> -"And father?" gasped Ethel. -</p> -<p> -"He was upon the grain boat," said Goyu. -</p> -<p> -"But where is he now?" -</p> -<p> -"I do not know," returned Goyu, locking nervously over his shoulder. -"But I fear he has not fared well—the boat was dynamited—that's -what started the trouble." -</p> -<p> -With a gasp Ethel recalled that an hour before she had heard an -explosion which she had supposed to be blasting. Faint with fear, -she staggered toward a couch and fell forward upon the cushions. -</p> -<div style="height: 4em;"><hr></div> -<p> -When the girl regained consciousness the house was dark. Slowly she -recalled the event that had culminated the uneventful day. She -wondered if Goyu had been lying or had gone crazy. The darkness was -not reassuring—her father always came home before dark, and his -absence now confirmed her fears. She wondered if the old servant had -deserted her. He was a poor stick anyway; Japanese men who had pride -or character no longer worked as domestics in the households of -foreigners. -</p> -<p> -Ethel Calvert was the daughter of an American grain merchant who -represented the interests of the North American Grain Exporters -Association at the seaport of Otaru, in Hokaidi, the North Island of -Japan. Three years before her mother had died of homesickness and a -broken heart—although the Japanese physician had called it -tuberculosis, and had prescribed life in a tent! Had they not -suffered discomforts enough in that barbarous country without adding -insult to injury? -</p> -<p> -Ethel was bountifully possessed of the qualities of hothouse beauty. -Her jet black hair hung over the snowy skin of her temples in -striking contrast. Her form was of a delicate slenderness and her -movement easy and graceful with just a little of that languid -listlessness considered as a mark of well-bred femininity. She knew -that she was beautiful according to the standards of her own people -and her isolation from the swirl of the world's social life was to -her gall and wormwood. -</p> -<p> -The Calverts had never really "settled" in Japan, but had merely -remained there as homesick Americans indifferent to, or unjustly -prejudiced against the Japanese life about them. Now, in the year -1958, the growing anti-foreign feeling among the Japanese had added -to their isolation. Moreover, the Japanese bore the grain merchant -an especial dislike, for every patriotic Japanese was sore at heart -over the fact that, after a century of modern progress, Japan was -still forced to depend upon foreigners to supplement their food -supply. -</p> -<p> -In fact, they had oft heard Professor Oshima grieve over the -statistics of grain importation, as a speculator might mourn his -personal losses in the stock market. -</p> -<div style="height: 4em;"><hr></div> - -<p> -For a time Ethel lay still and listened to the faint sound of voices -from a neighboring porch. Then the growing horror of the situation -came over her with anewed force; if her father was dead, she was not -only alone in the world, but stranded in a foreign and an unfriendly -country; for there were but few Americans left in the city. -</p> -<p> -The girl arose and crept nervously into the dining-room. She turned -on the electric light; everything seemed in order. She hurried over -to Goyu's room, and knocked. There was no answer. Then slowly -opening the door, she peered in—the room was empty and disordered. -Plainly the occupant had bundled together his few belongings and -flown. -</p> -<p> -Ethel stole back through the silent house and tremblingly took down -the telephone receiver. In vain she called the numbers of the few -American families of the city. Last on the list was the American -Consulate, and this time she received the curt information that the -consul had left the city by aeroplane "with the other foreigners." -The phrase struck terror into her heart. If the European population -had flown in such haste as to overlook her, clearly there was -danger. A great fear grew upon her. Afraid to remain where she was, -she tried to think of ways of escape. She could not steer an -aeroplane even if she were able to obtain one. Otaru was far from -the common ways of international traffic and the ships lying at -anchor in the harbor were freighters, Japanese owned and Japanese -manned. -</p> -<p> -Ethel looked at her watch—it was nine-twenty. She tiptoed to her -room. -</p> -<p> -An hour later she was in the street dressed in a tailored suit of -American make and carrying in her hand-bag a few trinkets and -valuables she had found in the house. Passing hurriedly through -quiet avenues, she was soon in the open country. The road she -followed was familiar to her, as she had traveled it many times by -auto. -</p> -<p> -For hours she walked rapidly on. Her unpracticed muscles grew tired -and her feet jammed forward in high-heeled shoes were blistered and -sore. But fear lent courage and as the first rays of the morning sun -peeked over the hill-tops, the refugee reached the outskirts of the -city of Sapporo. -</p> -<p> -Ethel made straightway for the residence of Professor Oshima, the -Soil Chemist of the Imperial Agricultural College of Hokiado—a -Japanese gentleman who had been educated and who had married abroad, -and a close friend of her father's. As she reached the door of the -Professor's bungalow, she pushed the bell, and sank exhausted upon -the stoop. -</p> -<p> -Some time afterward she half-dreamed and half realized that she -found herself neatly tucked between white silk sheets and lying on a -floor mattress of a Japanese sleeping-porch. A gentle breeze fanned -her face through the lattice work and low slanting sunbeams sifting -in between the shutters fell in rounded blotches upon the opposite -straw matting wall. For a time she lay musing and again fell asleep. -</p> -<p> -When she next awakened, the room was dimly lighted by a little -glowing electric bulb and Madame Oshima was sitting near her. Her -hostess greeted her cordially and offered her water and some fresh -fruit. -</p> -<p> -Madame Oshima was fully posted upon the riots and confirmed Ethel's -fears as to the fate of her father. -</p> -<a name="image-0001"><!--IMG--></a> -<center> -<img src="images/56.jpg" alt="'But Have I Lost My Figure?' Inquired the Lithe -Madame Oshima."> -</center> -<!--IMAGE END--> -<p> -"You will be safe here for the present," her hostess assured her. -"Professor Oshima has been called to Tokio; when he returns we will -see what can be done concerning your embarking for America." -</p> -<p> -Madame Oshima was of French descent but had fully adopted Japanese -customs and ways of thinking. -</p> -<p> -As soon as Ethel was up and about, her hostess suggested that she -exchange her American-made clothing for the Japanese costume of the -time. But Ethel was inclined to rebel. -</p> -<p> -"Why," she protested, "if I discarded my corsets I would lose my -figure." -</p> -<p> -"But have I lost my figure?" inquired the lithe Madame Oshima, -striking an attitude. -</p> -<p> -To this Ethel did not reply, but continued, "And I would look like a -man," for among the Japanese people tight-belted waists and flopping -skirts had long since been replaced by the kimo, a single-piece -garment worn by both sexes and which fitted the entire body with -comfortable snugness. -</p> -<p> -"And is a man so ill-looking?" asked her companion, smiling. -</p> -<p> -"Why, no, of course not, only he's different. Why, I couldn't wear a -kimo—people would see—my limbs," stammered the properly-bred -American girl. -</p> -<p> -"Why, no, they couldn't," replied Madame Oshima. "Not if you keep -your kimo on." -</p> -<p> -"But they would see my figure." -</p> -<p> -"Well, I thought you just said that was what you were afraid they -wouldn't see." -</p> -<p> -"But I don't mean that way—they—they could see the shape of my—my -legs," said Ethel, blushing crimson. -</p> -<p> -"Are you ashamed that your body has such vulgar parts?" returned the -older woman. -</p> -<p> -"No, of course not," said Ethel, choking back her embarrassment. -"But it's wicked for a girl to let men know such things." -</p> -<p> -"Oh, they all know it," replied Madame Oshima, "they learn it in -school." -</p> -<p> -At this the highly strung Ethel burst into sobs. -</p> -<p> -"There, there now," said her companion, regretting that she had -spoken sarcastically. "I forget that I once had such ideas also. -We'll talk some more about it after while. You are nervous and -worried now and must have more rest." -</p> -<p> -The next day Madame Oshima more tactfully approached the subject and -showed her protege that while in Rome it was more modest to do as -the Romans do; and that, moreover, it was necessary for her own good -and theirs that she attract as little attention as possible, and to -those that recognized her Caucasian blood appear, superficially, at -least, as a naturalized citizen of Japan. -</p> -<p> -So, amid blushes and tears, protestations and laughter, Ethel -accepted the kimo, or one-piece Japanese garment, and the outer -flowing cloak to be worn on state occasions when freedom of bodily -movement was not required. Her feather-adorned hat was discarded -altogether and her ill-shapen high-heeled boots replaced by airy -slippers of braided fiber. -</p> -<p> -Her rather short stature and her hair—which fortunately enough was -black—served to lessen her conspicuousness, especially when dressed -in the fashion followed by Japanese girls; and with the leaving off -of the use of cosmetics and the spending of several hours a day in -the flower garden even her pallid complexion suffered rapid change. -</p> -<p> -It was about a fortnight before Professor Oshima returned from -Tokio. Upon his arrival Ethel at once pleaded with him to be sent to -America, but the scientist slowly shook his head. -</p> -<p> -"It is too late," he said; "there is going to be a war." -</p> -<p> -Thus it happened that Ethel Calvert was retained in the Professor's -family as a sort of English tutor to his children, and introduced as -a relative of his wife, and no one suspected that she was one of the -hated Americans. -</p> -<div style="height: 4em;"><hr></div> - -<p> -The trouble between Japan and the United States dated back to the -early part of the century. It was deep-seated and bitter, and was -not only the culmination of a rivalry between the leading nations of -the great races of mankind, but a rivalry between two great ideas or -policies that grew out in opposite directions from the age of -unprecedented mechanical and scientific progress that marked the -dawn of the twentieth century. -</p> -<p> -The pages of history had been turned rapidly in those years. The -United States, long known as the richest country, had also become -the most populous nation of the Caucasian world—and wealth and -population had made her vain. -</p> -<p> -But with all her material glory, there was not strength in American -sinews, nor endurance in her lungs, nor vigor in the product of her -loins. Her people were herded together in great cities, where they -slept in gigantic apartment houses, like mud swallows in a sand -bank. They overate of artificial food that was made in great -factories. They over-dressed with tight-fitting unsanitary clothing -made by the sweated labor of the diseased and destitute. They -over-drank of old liquors born of ancient ignorance and of new -concoctions born of prostituted science. They smoked and perfumed -and doped with chemicals and cosmetics—the supposed virtues of -which were blazoned forth on earth and sky day and night. -</p> -<p> -The wealth of the United States was enormous, yet it was chiefly in -the hands of the few. The laborers went forth from their rookeries -by subway and monorail, and served their shifts in the mills of -industry. -</p> -<p> -In turn, others took their places, and the mills ground night and -day. -</p> -<p> -Even the farm lands had been largely taken over by corporate -control. Crops on the plains were planted with power machinery. The -rough lands had all been converted into forests or game preserves -for the rich. Agriculture had been developed as a science, but not -as a husbandry. The forcing system had been generally applied to -plants and animals. Wonder-working nitrogenous fertilizers made at -Niagara and by the wave motors of the coast made all vegetation to -grow with artificial luxury. Corn-fed hogs and the rotund carcasses -of stall-fed cattle were produced on mammoth ranches for the -edification of mankind, and fowl were hatched by the billions in -huge incubators, and the chicks reared and slaughtered with scarcely -a touch of a human hand. And all this was under the control of -concentrated business organization. The old, sturdy, wasteful farmer -class had gone out of existence. -</p> -<p> -Only the rich who owned aeroplanes could afford to live in the -country. The poor had been forced to the cities where they could be -sheltered <i>en masse</i>, and fed, as it were, by machinery. New York -had a population of twenty-three millions. Manhattan Island had been -extended by filling in the shallows of the bay, until the Battery -reached almost to Staten Island. The aeroplane stations that topped -her skyscrapers stood, many of them, a quarter of a mile from the -ground. -</p> -<p> -As the materially greatest nation in the world, the United States -had an enormous national patriotism based on vanity. The larger -patriotism for humanity was only known in the prattle of her -preachers and idealists. America was the land of liberty—and -liberty had come to mean the right to disregard the rights of -others. -</p> -<p> -In Japan, too, there had been changes, but Japan had received the -gifts of science in a far different spirit. With her, science had -been made to serve the more ultimate needs of the race, rather than -the insane demand for luxuries. -</p> -<p> -The Japanese had applied to the human species the scientific -principles of heredity, nutrition and physical development, which in -America had been confined to plants and animals. The old spirit of -Japanese patriotism had grown into a semi-religious worship of -racial fitness and a moral pride developed which eulogized the -sacrifice of the liberties of the individual to the larger needs of -the people. Legal restrictions of the follies of fashion in dress -and food, the prohibition of alcohol and narcotics, the restriction -of unwise marriages, and the punishments of immorality were -stoically accepted, not as the blue laws of religious fanaticism, -but as requisites of racial progress and a mark of patriotism. -</p> -<p> -And while Japan showed no signs of the extravagant wealth seen in -America, she was far from being poor. She had gained little from -centralized and artificial industry, but she had wasted less in -insane competition and riotous luxury. -</p> -<p> -But in Japanese life there was one unsolved problem. That was her -food supply. Intensive culture would do wonders and the just -administration of wealth and the physical efficiency of her people -had eliminated the waste of supporting the non-productive, but an -acre is but a small piece of land at most, and Japan had long since -passed the point where the number of her people exceeded the number -of her acres. A quarter of an acre would produce enough grain and -coarse vegetables to keep a man alive, but the Japanese wanted eggs -and fruit and milk for their children; and they wanted cherry trees -and chrysanthemums, lotus ponds and shady gardens with little -waterfalls. -</p> -<a name="image-0002"><!--IMG--></a> -<center> -<img src="images/58.jpg" alt="In the Nineteenth Month of The War, The Emblem Of The -Rising Sun Was Hoisted over Manila. -"> -</center> -<!--IMAGE END--> -<p> -Now if the low birth rate that had resulted when the examinations -for parenthood were first enforced had continued, Japan would not -have been so crowded, but after the first generation of marriage -restriction the percentage of those who reached the legal standard -of fitness was naturally increased. The scientists and officials had -from time to time considered the advisability of increasing the -restrictions—and yet why should they? The Japanese people had -submitted to the prohibition of the marriage of the unfit, but they -loved children; and, with their virile outdoor life, the instinct of -procreation was strong within them. True, the assignable lands in -Japan continued to grow smaller, but what reason was there for -stifling the reproductive instincts of a vigorous people in a great -unused world half populated by a degenerate humanity? -</p> -<p> -So Japan was land hungry—not for lands to conquer, as of old, nor -yet for lands to exploit commercially, but for food and soil and -breathing space for her children. -</p> -<p> -Among opponents of Japanese racial expansion, the United States was -the greatest offender. Japanese immigration had long since been -forbidden by the United States, and American diplomats had more -recently been instrumental in bringing about an agreement among the -powers of Europe by which all outlets were locked against the -overflowing stream of Asiatic population. -</p> -<p> -Indeed, America called Japan the yellow peril; and with her own -prejudices to maintain, her institutions of graft and exploitation -to fatten her luxury-loving lords and her laborers to appease, she -was in mortal terror of the simple efficiency of the Japanese people -who had taken the laws of Nature into their own hands and shaped -human evolution by human reason. -</p> -<p> -As Commodore Perry had forced the open door of commerce upon Japan a -century before, so Japan decided to force upon America the -acknowledgment of any human being's right to live in any land on -earth. She had tried first by peaceful means to secure these ends, -but failing here and driven on by the lash of her own necessity, -Japan had come to feel that force alone could break the clannish -resistance of the Anglo-Saxon, who having gone into the four corners -of the earth and forced upon the world his language, commerce and -customs, now refused to receive ideas or citizens in return. -</p> -<p> -And thus it came to pass that the West and the East were in the -clutch of the War-God. No one knew just what the war would be like, -for the wars of the last century had been bluffing, bulldozing -affairs concerning trade agreements or Latin-American revolutions. -There had been no great clash of great ideas and great peoples. -</p> -<p> -The harbors of the world were filled with huge, floating, -flat-topped battleships, within the capacious interiors of which -were packed the parts of aeroplanes as were the soldiers of the -Grecian army in their wooden horse at Troy, for assembling and -launching them. But the engines of warfare which men had repeatedly -claimed would make war so terrible as to end war, had failed to -fulfill anticipations. The means of defense and the rules of the -game had kept pace with the means of destruction. The flat tops of -the warships, which served as alighting platforms for friendly -planes, were heavily armored against missiles dropped from -unfriendly ones. The explosion of a bomb on top of a plate of steel -is a rather tame affair, and guns sufficient to penetrate armor -plate could not be carried on air-craft. The big guns of -battleships, which had for a time grown bigger and bigger, had now -gone quite out of use, for the coming of the armored top had been -followed by the toad-stool warship, which had a roof like an -inverted saucer, and was provided with water chambers, the opening -of the traps of which caused a sudden sinking of the vessel until -the eave dipped beneath the water level and left exposed only the -sloping roof from which the heaviest shot would glance like a bullet -from the frozen surface of a pond. -</p> -<p> -The first two years of war dragged on in the Pacific. American grain -was of course cut off from Japan and the government authorities -ordered the people to plow up their flower gardens and plant food -crops. -</p> -<p> -The Americans had too much territory to protect to take the -offensive and their Pacific fleet lay close to Manila, where, with -the help of land aviation forces, they hoped to hold the possession -of the islands, which according to the popular American view was -supposed to be the prize for which the Japanese had gone to war. -</p> -<p> -The test of the actual warfare proved several things upon which -mankind had long been in doubt. One of these was that, with all the -expert mechanism that science and invention had supplied, the -personal equation of the man could not be eliminated. Aviation -increased the human element in warfare. To shoot straight requires -calm nerves, but to fly straight requires also agility and -endurance. -</p> -<p> -The American aeroplanes were made of steel and aluminum, and when -they hit the water they sank like lead, but the Japanese planes were -made of silk and bamboo, and their engines were built with multiple -compartment air tanks and after a battle the Japanese picked up the -floating engines and placed them, ready to use, in inexpensive new -planes. -</p> -<div style="height: 4em;"><hr></div> -<p> -In the nineteenth month of the war, Manila surrendered, and the -emblem of the rising sun was hoisted throughout the Philippine -Islands. The remnant of the American fleet retreated across the -Pacific, and the world supposed that the war was over. -</p> -<p> -But Japan refused the American proposals of peace, which conceded -them the Philippines, unless the United States be also opened to -universal immigration. And so it was that when Japan, in addition to -accepting the Philippines, demanded the right to settle her cheap -labor in the United States, the American authorities cut short the -peace negotiation and began concentrating troops and battleships -along the Pacific Coast in fear of an invasion of California. -</p> -<div style="height: 4em;"><hr></div> - -<p> -With Ethel Calvert's adoption into Professor Oshima's family there -came a great change in her life. At first, she accepted Japanese -food and Japanese clothes as the old-time prisoner accepted stripes -and bread and water. But her captivity proved less repulsive than -she expected and she was soon confessing to herself that there was -much good in Japanese life. Professor and Madame Oshima were not -talkative on general topics but the books on the shelves of the -Professor's library proved a godsend to the awakening mind of the -young woman. Indeed, after a mental diet of French and English -fiction upon which Ethel had been reared, the works on science and -humaniculture, the dreams of universal brotherhood, the epics of a -race in its conquests of disease and poverty were as meat and drink -to her eager, hungry mind. -</p> -<p> -As the war went on, the horror of it all grew upon her. She read -Howki's "America." She didn't believe it all, but she realized that -most of it was true. She wondered why her people were fighting to -keep out the Japanese. She marvelled that the Japanese who had -adopted such lofty ideals of race culture could find the heart to go -to war. She wished she might be free to go to the government -officials at Tokio and Washington to show them the folly of it all. -Surely if the American statesmen understood Japanese ideals and the -superiority of their habits and customs for the production of happy -human beings, they would never have waged war to keep them out of -the States. -</p> -<div style="height: 4em;"><hr></div> - -<p> -"In three days we leave Japan," said Professor Oshima, as he sat -down to dinner one evening in the early part of April, 1960. -</p> -<p> -"All?" asked Komoru, the Professor's secretary. -</p> -<p> -"We four," replied Oshima, indicating those at the table, "the -children will stay with my mother. I'll need your assistance, and as -for Miss Ethel, she cannot well stay here, so I have had you two -listed. Although it's a little irregular, I am sure it will not be -questioned, for I know more about American soils than any other man -in Japan." -</p> -<p> -Ethel glanced apprehensively at Komoru. She had never quite -understood her own attitude toward that taciturn young Japanese whom -she had seen daily for two years without hardly making his -acquaintance. She admired him and yet she feared him. -</p> -<p> -Professor Oshima was saying that she had been "listed" with Komoru -for some great journey. What did it mean? What could she do? Again -she looked up at the secretary; but far from seeing any trace of -scheme or plot in his enigmatical countenance, she found him to be -considering the situation with the same equanimity with which he -would have recorded the calcium content of a soil sample. -</p> -<p> -As for Professor and Madame Oshima, they seemed equally unruffled -about the proposed journey, and not at all inclined to elucidate the -mystery. Experience had taught the younger woman that when -information was not offered it was unwise to ask questions, so when -the Professor busied himself with much ransacking of his pamphlets -and papers and his wife became equally occupied with overhauling the -family wardrobe and getting the children off to their grandmother's, -Ethel accepted unquestionably the statement that she would be -limited to twenty kilograms of clothing and ten kilograms of other -personal effects, and lent assistance as best she could to the -enterprise in hand. -</p> -<p> -On the third day the little party, with their light luggage boarded -a train for Hakodate, at which point they arrived at noon. Hurrying -along the docks among others burdened like themselves, they came to -a great low-lying, turtle-topped warship; and, passing down a -gangway, entered the brilliantly lighted interior. -</p> -<p> -The constant flood of new passengers came, not in mixed and motley -groups, as the ordinary crowd of passengers, but by two, male and -female, as the unclean beasts into the ark. And they were all young -in years and athletic in frame—the very cream and flower of the -race. -</p> -<a name="image-0003"><!--IMG--></a> -<center> -<img src="images/61.jpg" alt="Every Few Seconds an Aeroplane Shot Into the Air And -Joined the Endless Winged Line. -"> -</center> -<!--IMAGE END--> -<p> -Late that evening the vessel steamed out of port, and during the -next two days was joined by a host of other war craft, and the great -squadron moved in orderly procession to the eastward. -</p> -<p> -One point, that Ethel soon discovered was that, in addition to being -excellent physical specimens, all the men, and many of the women, -were proficient as aviators. Of these facts life on board bore ample -evidence, for the great fan ventilated gymnasium was the most -conspicuous part of the ship's equipment and here in regular drills -and in free willed disportive exercise those on board kept -themselves from stagnation during the idleness of the voyage. Into -this gymnasium work Ethel entered with great gusto, for there was a -revelation in the discovery of her own physical capabilities that -surprised and fascinated her. -</p> -<p> -In the other chief interest of her fellow passengers, Ethel was an -apt pupil, for though woefully ignorant of aviation, she was eager -to learn. She spent many hours in the company of Professor or Madame -Oshima, studying aeroplane construction and operation from the -displayed mechanisms on board. In fact, they found the great roomy -hold of the ship was packed with aeroplane parts. Small gasoline -turbines were stored in crates by the hundreds; also wings and -rudders knocked down and laid flat against each other and still -lower down in the framework of the floating palace were vast stores -of gasoline. -</p> -<p> -At the end of two weeks the Japanese squadron was in latitude 34° -north, longitude 125° west, and headed directly for the Los Angeles -district of Southern California—the richest and most densely -populated area of the United States. -</p> -<p> -One evening, just at dark, after they had been in sight of the -American aerial scouts all day, the Japanese fleet changed its -course and turned sharply to the southward. Now Panama was six days' -steaming from Los Angeles and less than three days from New Orleans. -So the authorities at Washington ordered all warships and available -soldiers on the Gulf Coast to embark for the Isthmus. -</p> -<p> -Meanwhile there was much going on beneath the armor plate of the -Japanese transports, and on the fourth day of their southward -movement the great trap doors were swung down and aeroplane parts -were run out on the tramways, the planes rapidly set up by skilled -workmen, and firmly hooked to the floor. Above and below deck they -stood in great rows like lines of automobiles in a garage. -</p> -<p> -Towards sundown the forward planes were manned and in quick -succession shot down the runways and took to the air. Ethel and her -companions were below air the time and hardly knew what was going -on. Their luggage had been taken up some time ago, except for an -extra kima, which they had been ordered to put on. In their turn -they were now called out and ordered to go above, that is, the names -of the men were called and Ethel knew that she was listed as Madame -Komoru, a thing that made her shiver every time it was brought to -her attention. -</p> -<p> -An exclamation or astonishment escaped the lips of the more -impulsive American girl as she came on deck; for as far as the eye -could see the gray flat tops of the war vessels were covered with -the drab-winged planes, while every few seconds a plane shot into -the air and joined an endless winged line that stretched away to the -northeast. -</p> -<p> -"Komoru eighty-five: Oshima eighty-six." -</p> -<p> -The intent of that command was clear and Ethel was soon settled -immediately behind the young secretary in the little bamboo car of a -Japanese plane-of-war. -</p> -<p> -The propeller started with a shrill musical hum; they raced down the -runway; dipped for a second toward the water; rose, and sailed -swiftly up and on toward the dark line of Mexico, that lay in the -evening shadow cast by the curved surface of the Pacific Ocean. -</p> -<p class="blurb"> -(To be continued.) -</p> -<a name="2H_PART"><!-- H2 anchor --></a> - -<div style="height: 4em;"><br><br><br><br></div> - -<h2> -PART TWO. -</h2> -<p class="blurb"> -Synopsis of Previous Installment: In the year -1958, Ethel Calvert, a daughter of an American -grain-merchant, residing in Japan, because of her -father's death in an anti-foreign riot, is forced -to take refuge with Madame Oshima, the French wife -of a Japanese scientist. She becomes accustomed to -the mode of living followed by the Japanese, and -is finally persuaded to adopt the costume of the -land of her exile. War is declared between Japan -and the United States, and Professor Oshima, and -Komoru, his Secretary, together with Madame Oshima -and Ethel Calvert, sail for United States in a -Japanese war vessel. When near the Pacific Coast, -the many men and women who have been passengers on -the vessel, leave the ship by means of aeroplanes, -and sail eastwardly over Southern California. -</p> -<p> -The air cut by Ethel's face at a ninety-mile gait, and she gripped -nervously at the hand-rails of the car. Then, regaining confidence, -she began to drink in the novel view about her. Ahead were the -drab-winged aeroplanes growing smaller and smaller until they became -mere specks against the darkening sky. She turned to the rear and -watched the myriads of humans, like birds, rising from the -transports that still lay in the sunshine. There were literally -thousands of them. She wondered if human eyes had ever before -witnessed so marvelous a sight. -</p> -<p> -They had come over the mainland of Mexico now and were flying at a -height of about half a mile. Shrouded in the tropical twilight, the -landscape below was but dimly discernible. As the darkness came on, -Ethel discovered that a small light glowed from the side of the car -in front of the driver. Gripping the hand-rail, she made bold to -raise herself; and, stopping beneath the searchlight and machine-gun -that hung, one beneath the other, on swivels in the center of the -framework, she peered forward over Komoru's shoulder. -</p> -<p> -The taciturn steersman turned and smiled but said nothing. Ethel -noted carefully the equipment of the driver's box. It was a -duplicate throughout of the dummy steering gear with which she had -practiced in the ship's gymnasium. One conspicuous addition, -however, was an object illuminated by the small glow lamp that had -attracted her attention. This proved to be chart or map mounted at -either end on short rollers. As the girl watched it, she perceived -that it moved slowly. A red line was drawn across the map and -hovering over this was the tip of a metal pointer. A compass and a -watch were mounted at one side of the chart case. -</p> -<p> -Ethel watched the chart creep back on its rollers and reasoned that -the pointer indicated the location of the aeroplane. She wondered -how the movement of the chart was regulated with that of the plane. -Finally she decided to ask Komoru. -</p> -<p> -"By the landmarks and the time," he said. "Do you see that blue -coming in on the northeast corner of the map?" -</p> -<p> -"Yes." -</p> -<p> -"Well, watch it." -</p> -<p> -After a few minutes of waiting the words "<i>Gulf of Mexico</i>" rolled -out upon the chart. "Why, that can't be," said Ethel, "we just left -the Pacific Ocean." -</p> -<p> -"But we have crossed the Isthmus of Tehauntepec," replied Komoru; -"it is only a hundred miles wide." -</p> -<p> -His companion looked over the side of the car and to the front and. -to the right, she could see by the perfectly flat horizon that they -were approaching water. -</p> -<p> -"The map is unrolling too fast," said Komoru, as the pointer stood -over the edge of the indicated water—and he pushed back the little -lever on the clock mechanism that rolled the chart. "We have a -little head wind," he added. -</p> -<p> -Ethel resumed her seat and sat musing for a half hour or so. Komoru -looked around and called to her. -</p> -<p> -"Look over to your left," he said. "The lights of Vera Cruz. We are -making better time now," he added, again adjusting the regulator on -the clock work. -</p> -<p> -The driver contemplated his compass carefully and shifted his course -a few points to the right. Ethel settled in her bamboo cage and -pulled her aviation cap down tightly to shield her face and ears -from the wind pressure. -</p> -<p> -For hours they sat so—the girl's heart throbbing with awe, wonder -and fear; the man unemotional and silent, a steady, firm hand on the -wheel, his feet on the engine controls and his goggled eyes glancing -critically at compass or watch or out into the starlit waste of the -night, disturbed only by the whirl and shadow of other planes which -with varying speed passed or were passed, as the aerial host rushed -onward. There were only small tail lights, one above and one below -the main plane, to warn following drivers against collision. -</p> -<div style="height: 4em;"><hr></div> - -<p> -With her head bent low upon her knees, Ethel at length fell into a -doze. She was aroused by Komoru's calling, and straightening up with -a start, she arose and leaned forward over the driver. Komoru was -looking intently at the scroll chart. In a moment she designed the -cause of his interest, for there had rolled across the forward -surface of the chart the outline of a coast. -</p> -<p> -In the far left-hand corner was marked the city of Galveston, and to -the right was the Sabine River that forms the boundary between Texas -and Louisiana. Ethel raised her eyes from the map and looked far out -to the Northwest. Sure enough, she discerned the lights of a city at -the point where Galveston was indicated by the chart. -</p> -<p> -"How far have we come?" she asked in astonishment. -</p> -<p> -"Eight hundred miles," replied Komoru. "See, it is nearly -two-thirty. The first men with the faster planes were to have -arrived at one o'clock." -</p> -<p> -A little later they passed over the dimly discernible coast line, -some thirty or forty miles to the east of Galveston. Komoru -carefully consulted his compass, watch and aneroid, and made a -slight change in his course. -</p> -<p> -"Where do we land?" asked the girl. -</p> -<p> -Komoru steadied the wheel with one hand; and, reaching into the -breast pocket of his aviator's jacket, he produced a little -document-like roll. "These are the orders," he explained, and asked -Ethel to spread out the papers on the chart case. -</p> -<p> -The instruction sheet read: -</p> -<p class="blurb"> -"Fly twenty-eight minutes beyond the coast line, -which will place you ten or twenty miles northwest -of the town of Beaumont, where a fire of some sort -will be lighted about 3 a.m. -</p> -<p class="blurb"> -"When you alight locate one or more farm houses -and attach one of the enclosed notices to the -door. -</p> -<p class="blurb"> -"This done, fly toward the Beaumont signal fire -and assist in subduing the town and capturing all -petroleum works in the region. -</p> -<p class="blurb"> -"At 6 a.m., if petroleum works are safe, follow -the lead of the red plane and fly northwest as far -as Fort Worth, returning by nightfall to oil -region." -</p> -<p> -Ethel read the paper over and over as she held it down out of the -wind by the dim glow lamp. She wanted to ask questions. She wondered -what was expected of her. She wondered again as to what was expected -of the entire invasion and why the women had been brought along. But -her questions did not find verbal expression, for she had schooled -herself to await developments. -</p> -<p> -The roller chart had now come to a stop and showed the red line that -marked their course terminating in a cross to the northwest of the -town of Beaumont. Komoru tilted the plane downward and flew for a -time near the earth. Then checking the speed, he ran it lightly -aground in an open field a little distance from a clump of -buildings. -</p> -<p> -The driver got out and stretched his cramped limbs. Taking a hand -glow lamp he ran carefully over the mechanism of the plane. Then he -opened a locker and took out two small magazine pistols. One he -handed to Ethel. -</p> -<p> -"Don't use it," he said, "until you have to." -</p> -<p> -"Will you go with me?" he asked, "to tack the poster, or will you -stay with the plane?" -</p> -<p> -"I'll stay here," she replied. -</p> -<p> -Komoru walked off rapidly towards the house. Presently the stillness -was interrupted by the vociferous barking of a dog; Then there was a -sound as of some one picking a taut wire and the voice of the dog -curdled in a final yelp. -</p> -<p> -In a few minutes Komoru was back. "Dogs are no good," he said; "they -produce nothing but noise." -</p> -<p> -"Will you kindly get aboard, Miss Ethel? There is much to do." -</p> -<a name="image-0004"><!--IMG--></a> -<center> -<img src="images/161.jpg" -alt="By Carefully Shielding his Flash Lamp, Komoru Was -Able to Read a Duplicate of the Notice he Had Just Fastened Up. -"> -</center> -<!--IMAGE END--> -<p> -Ethel obeyed; meanwhile Komoru inspected the surface of the ground -for a few yards in front of the plane. Returning he climbed into his -seat and started the engine. They arose without mishap. -</p> -<p> -Within a mile or two, Komoru picked out another farm house and made -a landing nearby. -</p> -<p> -"I will go with you this time," said Ethel courageously. -</p> -<p> -Approaching an American residence, Ethel suddenly found herself -conscious of the fact that she was dressed in a most unladylike -Japanese kimo. For a moment the larger sentiments of the occasion -were replaced by the womanly query, "What will people say?" Then she -laughed inwardly at the absurdity of her thought. -</p> -<p> -Komoru produced the roll from his pocket and unwound a small cloth -poster. This he fastened to the door jam by pressing in the thumb -tacks that were sewed in the hem. Then noting another white blotch -on the opposite side of the door, he carefully shielded his lamp, -and made a light. It was a duplicate of the notice he had just -fastened up and read: -</p> -<center> -WARNING -</center> -<p class="blurb"> -"Two hundred thousand Japanese have invaded Texas -and are desirous of possessing your property. You -are respectfully requested to depart immediately -and apply to your government for property -elsewhere. All buildings not vacated within -twenty-four hours will be promptly burned—unless -displaying a flag truce for sufficient reason. -Kindly co-operate with us in avoiding bloodshed. -</p> -<p class="blurb"> - (Signed) The Japanese People." -</p> -<p> -"We were late," said Komoru as they walked back toward the plane. -"Two hundred thousand," he mused; "what you call 'bluff,' I guess." -</p> -<p> -"It's growing light," said Ethel, as they reached the plane. -</p> -<p> -"Yes, a little," replied Komoru, as he walked around to the front. -"An ugly ditch," he said. "We shall have to use the helicopter." -</p> -<p> -Taking his seat he threw down a lever and what had appeared to be -two small superimposed planes above the main plane assumed the form -of flat screws. Letting the engine gain full headway, Komoru threw -the clutch on this shafting, and the vertical screws started -revolving in opposite directions with a great downward rush of air. -The whole apparatus tilted a bit, and then slowly but steadily -arose. -</p> -<p> -When they had reached altitude of a hundred feet or so, the driver -shifted the power to the quieter horizontal propeller and the plane -sidled off like an eagle dropping from a crag. -</p> -<p> -Tilting the plane upward, Komoru circled for altitude. Presently he -called back over his shoulder, saying that he saw the signal fire at -Beaumont at the same time heading the plane in that direction. -</p> -<p> -As the dawn began to break in the East, the occasional passing -lights of flying planes became less bright and soon the planes -themselves stood out against the sky like shadows. And then the -whole majestic train of aerial invaders became visible as they -poured over the southern horizon—-a never ending stream. -</p> -<p> -Komoru and Ethel landed in a meadow already well filled with planes -and following the others, hurried along toward the town. -</p> -<p> -There had been some fighting in the streets and a few buildings were -burning. Walking along to the main street of the town, they came -upon a crowd of Japanese who were collected in front of a building -from which the contents were being dragged hastily. -</p> -<p> -"What is it?" asked Komoru of one of the men. -</p> -<p> -"Hardware store," replied the other; "we've rifled all of them for -the weapons and explosives." -</p> -<p> -"Where are all the people?" asked Ethel. "The Americans—are they -killed or captured?" -</p> -<p> -"They are at home in their houses," answered the man, who seemed -well posted. "I was with the first squad to arrive. We captured the -policemen and then took the telephone switchboard. Japanese -operators are in there now. They have called up every one in town -and explained the situation, and advised the people to stay indoors, -telling them that every house would be burned from which people -emerged or shots were fired. The operators are working on the rural -numbers yet. We hold the telegraph also, and are sending out -exaggerated reports of the size of the Japanese invasion." -</p> -<div style="height: 4em;"><hr></div> - -<p> -A man wearing a blue sash came hurrying up. He stopped before the -group at the hardware store and gestured for silence. -</p> -<p> -"The town is well in hand," he said, "and only those of you who are -detailed here as guards need remain longer; the others will get back -to their planes and await the rise of their designated leaders for -the flights of the day. -</p> -<p> -"Come," said Komoru to his companion. But Ethel did not move. Her -mind was racked with perplexity. Here she was in a city of her own -people. Why should she continue to accompany this young Japanese -whom, despite his gentlemanly conduct, she instinctively feared? Yet -what else could she do? She was dressed in the peculiar attire of -the invaders, and would certainly have trouble in convincing an -American of her identity. -</p> -<a name="image-0005"><!--IMG--></a> -<center> -<img src="images/163.jpg" -alt="As They Passed Near Other Planes, Ethel Noted That In -Many Cases the Women Were Driving. -"> -</center> -<!--IMAGE END--> -<p> -"I must ask you to hurry," said Komoru, as the others moved off. -With an effort Ethel gathered her wavering emotions in hand and went -with him. If she must go, she reasoned it were well not to arouse -Komoru's suspicion of her loyalty. -</p> -<p> -A few minutes later they were again in the air, following the lead -of a plane with bright red wings—the flag-ship, as it were, of the -group. -</p> -<p> -In a half hour the expedition was approaching Houston. Coming over -the city, the leader circled high and waited until his followers -were better massed. -</p> -<p> -"Are we going to attack the town?" inquired Ethel, as Komoru asked -her for the water-bottle. -</p> -<p> -"Oh, no," he replied, "nothing of the sort; we are simply bluffing. -There are a number of expeditions going out to-day. We must make the -appearance of a great invasion." -</p> -<p> -"How many planes are there all told?" -</p> -<p> -Komoru smiled. "Not so many," he said. -</p> -<p> -"But how many?" persisted Ethel. -</p> -<p> -"Fifteen thousand, maybe," Komoru replied. -</p> -<p> -"To invade a country with nearly two hundred million inhabitants! We -will surely all be killed." -</p> -<p> -Komoru smiled. -</p> -<p> -"By sheer force of numbers," explained Ethel. -</p> -<p> -"Wait and see," replied her enigmatical companion. -</p> -<p> -For hours the little aerial squadron sailed through the balmy air of -Texas. They passed over Austin and Waco and Fort Worth and Dallas. -They turned eastward and passed over Texarkana, and thence south to -impress the people of Shreveport. -</p> -<p> -The excitement evinced in the towns increased as the news of their -flight was wired ahead. They were frequently shot at by groups of -excited citizens or occasional companies of militia, but at the -height and speed at which they were flying the bullets went wide. -One plane was lost. Something must have snapped. It doubled up and -went tumbling downward like a wounded pigeon. -</p> -<p> -The sun was dropping toward the western horizon. The invaders had -been flying for ten hours. They had been without food or sleep for -thirty-six hours. Save for the brief relaxation of the morning, -Komoru had not taken his hands from the steering wheel, nor his foot -from the engine control since the previous sunset in the Bay of -Tehauntepec. -</p> -<a name="image-0006"><!--IMG--></a> -<center> -<img src="images/164.jpg" -alt="The Two Women of Aryan Blood Worked Together in The -Cotton Field Side by Side With the Orientals. -"> -</center> -<!--IMAGE END--> -<p> -As they passed near other planes, Ethel noted that in many cases the -women were driving. Notwithstanding her dislike for him, the girl -found herself wishing that she could relieve Komoru. -</p> -<p> -She pondered over his "wait and see" and began to discern a new -possibility in an invasion of thirty thousand Japanese. She tried to -imagine one of the society favorites of her Chicago girlhood sitting -in front of her driving that plane. She remembered distinctly that -aeroplane racing was a part of the diversion of such men and that -five or six hours of driving was considered quite a feat. -</p> -<p> -The more she considered the man before her, the more she marvelled -at his powers. She confessed he interested her; she wondered why she -disliked him. The only answer that seemed acceptable was that he was -"not her kind." -</p> -<p> -Towards dusk, they hove in sight of the derricks of the Beaumont oil -region. The leader with the red plane descended in a large meadow. -Komoru was well to the front and brought his plane to earth a few -meters from the red wings. The man in the flag plane who had that -day led them over a thousand miles and a score of cities got out and -stretched himself. With an exclamation of joyful surprise, Ethel -recognized that he was Professor Oshima. -</p> -<p> -The Japanese camped where they were for the night. The wings of the -planes were guyed to the ground with cordage and little steel -stakes. Beneath such improvised tents the tired aerial cavalrymen -rolled themselves in their sleeping blankets and for twelve hours -the camp was as quiet as a graveyard. -</p> -<p> -That day had been a great day in history; it was the first -consequential aerial invasion that the world had ever known. While -the arrivals of the morning had been circling in fear-inspiring -flights above the neighboring states, the later starters from the -Japanese squadron had continued to arrive in the oil regions. Like -migrating birds, they settled down over the rich fields and grazing -lands of that wonderful strip of flat, black-soiled prairie that -stretches westward from the south center of Louisiana until it -emerges into the great semi-arid cattle plains of southern Texas. -</p> -<p> -The region, though one of the richest in the United States, was but -sparsely settled. Save for the few thousand white laborers who were -supported by the oil industry, the whole resident population were -negroes who were worked under imported white foremen in the rice and -truck lands of the region. -</p> -<p> -The negroes were panic stricken by the Japanese invasion and made -practically no resistance. In two or three days, the country for a -forty-mile radius around Beaumont was cleared of Americans and -practically the entire oil region of Texas with its vast storage -tanks at Port Arthur on the Sabine River, were in the hands of the -invaders. -</p> -<p> -There were not ten regiments of American soldiers within five -hundred miles. The great mass of the American army had been rushed -weeks before to southern California, and the remnant left in the -Gulf region had more recently been hastened to Panama. In fact, the -American squadron had steamed into Colon on the very morning the -Japanese alighted on Texas soil. -</p> -<p> -On the second morning of their arrival, Japanese officials circling -above the captured region, roughly allotted the land to Captains -under whose leadership were a hundred planes each. The captains then -assigned each couple places to stake their plane, which were located -a hundred meters apart, allowing to each about two and a half acres -of land. -</p> -<p> -Professor Oshima and Komoru, as soil chemists, were constantly on -the go making studies of the land and advising with the other -experts as to the crops to plant, and the methods of tillage for the -various locations. -</p> -<p> -In the cotton lands, where Ethel and her associates were located, -the soil was immediately put to a fuller use. The cotton plants were -thinned and pruned and between the rows quick growing vegetables -were planted. Elsewhere the great pastures were broken up with -captured kerosene-driven gang plows and by dint of hard labor the -sod was quickly reduced to a fit state for intensive cultivation. -</p> -<p> -The outside work of the professor and his secretary threw Ethel -altogether in the company of Madame Oshima. For this fact she was -very grateful, as her aversion to Komoru, to whom she was nominally -bound, grew more and more a source of worry and fear. So the two -women of Aryan blood worked together in the cotton field side by -side with the Orientals—worked and waited and wondered what was -awing in the surrounding world. -</p> -<p> -The gasoline wagons came around and refilled the fuel tanks of the -planes. Mechanics inspected the engines carefully and replaced -defective parts. The rice cakes and soyu brought from Japan, had -been replaced by a diet of wheat and maize products and fresh fruits -and vegetables taken from the captured stores and gardens. Such -captured foods, however, had all been inspected by the dieteticians, -and those of doubtful wholesomeness destroyed or placed under lock -and key to be used only as a last resort. -</p> -<p> -Thus weeks passed. The green things of Japanese planting had poked -their tender shoots through the black American soil. There had been -no fighting except in few cases, where a company of foolhardy -militia or a local posse had tried to attach the Japanese outposts. -American aeroplanes had wisely staid away. -</p> -<p> -But the fight was yet to come. The Federal Government had recalled -its ships from Panama and was bringing back the soldiers from -California. On the great flat prairie between Galveston and Houston, -a mighty military camp was being established. Aeroplane sheds were -erected and repair shops built. Long lines of army tents were -pitched in close proximity. Army canteens were established that the -thirsty soldiers might get pure liquor and good tobacco and a few -rods away—over the line—other grog shops were opened wherein were -sold similar goods not so guaranteed. Gambling sharks arrived and -set up shell games and bedraggled prostitutes—outcasts from urban -centers of debauchery—-came and camped nearby and made night -hideous with their obscene revelry. -</p> -<p> -So the American soldier prepared for battle against the enemy who, -fifty miles away, slept undisturbed in the midst of gardens beneath -the wings of their aeroplanes. -</p> -<p> -Never since Roman phalanx moved against the hordes of disorganized -barbarians had such extremes of method in warfare been pitted -against each other. Indeed it is doubtful if the invasion of the -Japanese should be called war at all. They were not blood-thirsty. -In fact, the Japanese invaders had sent word to the American -Government asserting their peaceful intentions if they were -unmolested, though threatening dire vengeance by firing cities and -poisoning water supplies if they were attacked. -</p> -<p> -Madame Oshima shook her head. "Such talk is only pretense," she -said, "the Japanese intend to live in America and would never so -embitter the people—and it will not be necessary." -</p> -<p> -Ethel was in doubt. She pictured the Japanese planes flying above -the unprotected inland cities dropping conflagration bombs upon -shingled roof or casks of prussic acid into open reservoirs. She -wished she were out of it all. She wanted to escape and yet she knew -not how. -</p> -<p> -The Americans made no hasty attacks. They feared the threats of the -Japanese and awaited the gathering of many hundred thousand -soldiers. At the end of four weeks the American army was spread in a -giant semi-circle surrounding the Japanese encampment from coast to -coast. Along the Gulf Coast was also a line of American battleships, -so that the Japanese encampment was entirely surrounded with an -almost continuous line of aeroplane destroying guns. -</p> -<p> -All preparations were at last complete and with cavalry beneath and -aeroplanes above, the American strategists planned a dash across the -Japanese territory with the belief that the outlying lines of -artillery would bring to earth those that succeeded in getting into -the air. -</p> -<div style="height: 4em;"><hr></div> - -<p> -One evening at the hour of twilight, messengers passed rapidly among -the Japanese distributing maps and orders to prepare for flight. -</p> -<p> -Late that night, their possessions made ready for flight, Komoru and -Ethel sat with Professor and Madame Oshima beneath the latter's -plane. -</p> -<p> -"Our scouts have come to the conclusion," said Oshima, "that a -cavalry attack is to be expected in the early morning. So our plan -is for a signal plane to rise at two o'clock directly over the -center of our territory. It will carry a bright yellow light. -Beginning with the outlying groups our forces are to fly toward the -light, rising as they go. Attaining an altitude of two miles they -are thence to fly due north as our maps show. We will suffer some -loss, but two miles high and at night I guess American gunners will -not inflict great damage." -</p> -<p> -Ethel shuddered. -</p> -<p> -"Do you think the American aviators will follow us?" asked Komoru. -</p> -<p> -"That depends," replied the older man, "upon the reception we give -them; we have them outnumbered." -</p> -<p> -"They carry men gunners," said Madame Oshima. -</p> -<p> -"So," said the Professor, "but shooting from an aeroplane depends -not so much upon the gunner as upon the steersman. Their planes -wabble, the metal frame work is too stiff, it doesn't yield to the -air pressure." -</p> -<p> -Along such lines the conversation continued for an hour or so. -Neither the men nor Madame Oshima seemed the least bit excited over -the prospects; but Ethel, striving to keep up external appearances, -was inwardly torn with warring emotions. -</p> -<p> -Making an excuse of wishing to look for something among her luggage, -the girl finally escaped and walked quickly toward the other plane. -But instead of stopping, she passed by and continued down between -the rows of cotton, avoiding as much as possible the lights that -dotted the field about her. -</p> -<p> -"Oh, God!" she repeated under her breath; "Oh, God! I can't go! I -won't go!" -</p> -<p> -For some time she walked on briskly trying to calm her feverish mind -and reason out a sane course of procedure. -</p> -<p> -She was passing thus where the lights of two planes glowed fifty -meters at either side, when she stumbled heavily over some dark -object between the cotton rows. She turned to see what it was; and, -bending forward, discerned in the starlight the body of a man. She -started to run; then, fearing pursuit the more, checked her speed. -As she did so some one grasped her arm and a heavy hand was clapped -over her mouth. -</p> -<p> -"Keep quiet," commanded her captor hoarsely. In another instant he -had bent her back over his knee and thrown her—or rather dropped -her for she did not resist—upon the soft earth beneath. -</p> -<p> -"If you make a sound, I'll have to shoot," he said, resting a heavy -knee upon her chest and clasping her slender wrist in a vise-like -grip of a single hand. -</p> -<p> -The girl breathed heavily. -</p> -<p> -The man reached toward his hip pocket and drawing forth a bright -metallic object held it close to her face. Her breath stopped short. -Then a flood of light struck her full in the eyes, as her captor -pressed the button on his flash lamp. -</p> -<p> -"God! a woman!" the man gasped. The exclamation and voice were -clearly not Japanese. -</p> -<p> -Ethel felt the grip loosen from her wrists and the weight shift from -her chest. -</p> -<p> -"You're no Japanese!" he said under his breath, at the same time -letting the glowing flash lamp fall from his hand. -</p> -<p> -Presently Ethel raised her head and reached for the lamp where it -lay wasting its rays against the black soil. She now turned the glow -on the other and saw kneeling beside her a young man in American -clothes. He was hatless and coatless and his soft gray shirt was -torn and mud bespattered. A massive head of uncombed hair crowned a -handsome forehead, but the face beneath was marred by a stubby -growth of beard. -</p> -<p> -"Who are you?" whispered Ethel finding her voice. -</p> -<p> -"Put out the light," he commanded, reaching forward to take it from -her. -</p> -<p> -"Who are you?" he asked reversing the query as they were again in -darkness. -</p> -<p> -"I'm a girl," said Ethel. -</p> -<p> -The man laughed softly. -</p> -<p> -"I'm not," he said. -</p> -<p> -Ethel drew herself into a sitting posture. "Which side of this war -are you on?" she asked. -</p> -<p> -The man was afraid to commit himself—then a happy thought struck -him. "The same side that you are," he answered diplomatically. -</p> -<p> -It was Ethel's turn to smile. -</p> -<p> -"You are an American?" she ventured at length. -</p> -<p> -"Yes," he said. "So are you?" -</p> -<p> -"Yes." -</p> -<p> -"Then why are you wearing Japanese clothes?" -</p> -<p> -"Because—" she said hesitatingly, "I haven't any others." -</p> -<p> -For some minutes he said nothing. -</p> -<p> -"Are you going to give the alarm of my presence?" he asked at -length. -</p> -<p> -"No." -</p> -<p> -"Then I'll go," he said. -</p> -<p> -Rising from his knees, but still stooping, he made off rapidly down -the cotton row. -</p> -<p> -Ethel breathed deeply. Confused thoughts flashed through her mind. -She would not return to go with Komoru; in her Japanese garb she -feared the early morning sweep of American cavalry; but to the man -who had just left her, why could she not explain? -</p> -<p> -Without further debate, she arose, and at top speed ran after the -retreating figure. -</p> -<a name="2H_4_0004"><!-- H2 anchor --></a> - -<div style="height: 4em;"><br><br><br><br></div> - -<p class="blurb"> -The next instalment of this absorbing tale will -appear in the September issue of PHYSICAL CULTURE. -It tells of how the Japanese attempt to obtain -control of the United States through scientific -measures rather than barbarous warfare, and is -wonderfully interesting and readable. Don't miss -it. -</p> -<a name="2H_PART"><!-- H2 anchor --></a> - -<div style="height: 4em;"><br><br><br><br></div> - -<h2> -PART THREE. -</h2> -<p class="blurb"> -SYNOPSIS: In the year of 1958, Ethel Calvert, a -daughter of an American grain-merchant, residing -in Japan, because of her father's death in an -anti-foreign riot, is forced to take refuge, with -Madame Oshima, the French wife of a Japanese -scientist. She becomes accustomed to the land and -mode of living followed by the Japanese, and is -finally persuaded to adopt the costume of the land -of her exile. War is declared between Japan and -the United States, and Professor Oshima, and -Komoru, his Secretary, together with Madame Oshima -and Ethel Calvert, sail for the United States in a -Japanese war vessel. When near the Pacific Coast, -the many men and women who have been passengers on -the vessel, leave the ship by means of aeroplanes, -and sail eastwardly toward Texas, where they -establish plantations and conduct a desultory -warfare by aeroplanes with United States troops. -While working in the fields Ethel discovers a -young American in concealment. He warns her to -keep silent, and immediately runs away. -</p> -<p> -In a few minutes Ethel had caught up with the man who, more -cautiously, ran before her. Checking her speed, she followed -silently. -</p> -<p> -For a half-mile she pursued him thus. He came to the end of the -field and dodged into the thicket of bushes that lined the fence -row. He moved more slowly now, and she followed by sound rather than -by sight. At length they came to where a brook ran at right angles -to the fence row. The man stopped and crawled under the barbed-wire -fence and came out on the turnpike that ran alongside. -</p> -<p> -Ethel, peering out from the bushes, saw him walk boldly forward and -stand upon the end of the stone culvert that conducted the brook -beneath the roadway. For a moment only he remained so, and then -clambered quickly down at the end of the arch and disappeared in the -darkness beneath. She heard a foot splash in the water, and then all -was quiet save the gurgle of the stream. -</p> -<p> -Climbing over the fence, she top ran forward upon the culvert. She -listened and looked toward either end, resolved to call to him if he -emerged. -</p> -<p> -As she stood waiting she saw the yellow signal light rise in spirals -higher and higher and then circle slowly in one location. A few -minutes later the dim tail lights of the planes came up out of the -horizon and flew towards the signal light. -</p> -<p> -After a half-hour of waiting, she boldly resolved to enter the -hiding place of the man she had followed. -</p> -<p> -Cautiously feeling her way, she clambered down over the end of the -culvert and peered into its black archway. -</p> -<p> -At first, dimly and then with brighter flash, she saw a light -within. Creeping slowly forward, wading in the stream and stumbling -over rough blocks of stone, she made toward the light. Midway the -passage, the side wall of the culvert had fallen or been torn down -and there in a little damp clay nook, sitting hunched upon a rock -was the silhouette of the unshaven man. -</p> -<p> -Beyond him glowed the dim light and by its faint rays he was -hurriedly writing in a note book. -</p> -<p> -With a start he became aware of her presence, and turned the -flash-light upon her. -</p> -<p> -"I followed you," she stammered. "I want to explain. I'm an American -girl captive among the Japanese." -</p> -<p> -He stared at her quizzically in the dim light. -</p> -<p> -"I ran from you," he said, "because I was afraid to trust you—there -are a number of Europeans among the Japanese forces. I couldn't know -that you wouldn't have given the alarm, and for one man to run from -fifty thousand isn't cowardice; it's common sense—even bravery, -perhaps, when there's a cause at stake." -</p> -<p> -"I understand," replied the girl. -</p> -<p> -"Won't you be seated?" he said, arising and offering her his place -on the rock. She accepted, and he asked her for more of her story. -</p> -<p> -In reply she told him whom she was and related as briefly as she -could the incidents of her life that accounted for her peculiar -predicament. -</p> -<p> -"I suppose I owe you something of an explanation, too;" he said, -when she had finished. "My name is Winslow—Stanley Winslow; I am -—or at least was—-the editor of the <i>Regenerationist</i>. Do you know -what that is?" -</p> -<p> -Ethel confessed, that she did not. -</p> -<p> -"Perhaps I flatter myself, but then I suppose you have had no chance -to keep up on American affairs." -</p> -<p> -Just then a crash, followed by a whirring, clattering noise broke in -above the sound of the man's voice and the gurgle of the brook -running through their hiding-place. -</p> -<p> -"What's that?" Winslow exclaimed, starting towards the end of the culvert. -</p> -<a name="image-0007"><!--IMG--></a> -<center> -<img src="images/311.jpg" alt="She Was Washing Her Woven Grass Sandals by Rubbing -The Soles Together in the Stream. -"> -</center> -<!--IMAGE END--> -<p> -Ethel followed him. Before they reached the open the trees in front -of them were lit up by the lurid light of a fire. Beside the road a -hundred yards away was the crumpled mass of a metallic aeroplane. -The gasolene tank had burst open and was blazing furiously. -</p> -<p> -"Americans," said Winslow; "let's see if the crew are dead." -</p> -<p> -The gasolene had largely spent itself by the time they reached the -plane. -</p> -<p> -Poking about in the crumbled debris, they found the driver impaled -upon a lever that protruded from his back. -</p> -<p> -"I wonder what grounded her," mused Winslow, as he inspected the -dead man with his flash-lamp. "Oh! here we are! Good shooting that," -he added, pointing with his lamp to a soggy hole in the side of the -man's head. -</p> -<p> -"I guess they're at it," he said, pressing out his light and turning -his eyes skyward. -</p> -<p> -The woman, speechless, followed his gaze. Across the sky flashed -here and there brilliant beams of search-lights, but far more -numerous were the swiftly moving star-like tail-lights of the -Japanese planes. -</p> -<p> -Now and again they heard the crackling of machine guns, occasionally -the burr of a disordered propeller and once the faint call of a -human voice. -</p> -<p> -"Look," said Ethel, pointing to the southward. "See that brilliant -yellow light. It's the Japanese signal plane; they are all to fly in -towards it, and then, soaring high will escape over the American -lines." -</p> -<p> -"The lines are a joke," returned Winslow. "It's plane against plane. -And the Japs will get the best of it; or at least they'll get away, -which is all they want. They are going to Dakota, where five train -loads of gasolene will be setting on a siding waiting to be -captured. We printed the story ten days ago, though the -administration papers hooted at the idea." -</p> -<p> -As they walked back toward the culvert, Ethel stumbled over -something in the roadway. She asked for the light, and discovered to -her horror that she was standing in the midst of the remnants of a -man who had been spattered over the hard macadam of the turnpike. -</p> -<p> -"Ugh! take me away," she shuddered, averting her eyes and running -toward the stream, -</p> -<p> -"The gunner fell out of the plane when she lurched, I guess," -commented Winslow to himself, examining the shreds of clothing -attached to the mangled remains beneath him. -</p> -<p> -For some reason Winslow did not immediately follow the girl but went -back and looked over the wrecked plane again. -</p> -<p> -He removed the magazine pistol from the impaled man's pocket and -searched about in the locker until he found a supply of cartridges. -</p> -<p> -The sky was beginning to brighten from approaching dawn now, and the -searchlight flashes were less brilliant. Winslow stood gazing upward -until the forms of the lower flying planes became visible. Suddenly -he saw a disabled plane come somersaulting out of the air and fall -into a field quarter of a mile away. Evidently there were explosives -aboard, for a shower of flame, smoke and splinters arose where she -fell. -</p> -<p> -The onlooking man hopped over the fence and ran toward the spot. -There was little to be seen—a mere ragged hole in the sod. As he -unconcernedly walked back he passed at intervals a propeller blade -sticking upright in the soil, a broken can of rice cakes and a -woman's hand. -</p> -<p> -The dawn had now so far progressed that the observer could see some -order in the movement of the air craft. He studied with fascination -the last of the Japanese planes as they circled up toward their -aerial guide-post and moved thence in a steady stream to the -northward. -</p> -<p> -The American planes which had been harassing and firing on the -Japanese as they circled for altitude, now turned and closed in on -the rear of the enemy and the fighting was fast and furious. Plane -after plane tumbled sickeningly out of the sky. But for Winslow the -sight lasted only a few minutes, for the combatants were flying at -full speed and soon became mere flitting insects against the gray -light of the morning sky. -</p> -<p> -Striding down the roadway past the mangled body of the American -gunner, Winslow reached the culvert. -</p> -<p> -Ethel Calvert was sitting on a flat stone at the edge of the water. -She held her woven grass sandals in her hands and was washing them -by rubbing the soles together in the stream. -</p> -<p> -As Winslow looked down at her in silence, the girl looked up and -eyed him curiously. Neither spoke. The man stooped and washed his -hands in the brook and then stepping up-stream a few paces he drank -from the rivulet. -</p> -<p> -Returning he regarded the girl. She had placed her sandals beyond -her on the grassy bank and sat with her bare feet in the shallow -stream. Her head, buried in her arms, rested upon her knees. The -slender shoulders now shook convulsively and the sound of a sob -escaped her. In the calmness of his cynicism, the man sat down on -the rock and placed a strong arm around the trembling woman. -</p> -<a name="image-0008"><!--IMG--></a> -<center> -<img src="images/313.jpg" -alt="In Another Moment, he Turned in a Gap Through The -Fence and Rode Down Upon the Fleeing Woman. -"> -</center> -<!--IMAGE END--> -<p> -"I know," he said, "it's a dirty damned mess, but we didn't start -it." -</p> -<p> -After a time the girl raised her head. "I know we didn't start it," -she said; "but isn't there something we can do to stop it?" -</p> -<p> -"Well," he replied slowly, "I rather hope to have a hand in stopping -it, and perhaps you can help." -</p> -<p> -"How?" -</p> -<p> -"Surely you can do as much in stopping it as one of those poor -devils that get smashed does in keeping it going," he went on. -</p> -<p> -"How?" she repeated. -</p> -<p> -"Well, that's quite a long story," he replied; "if you don't already -know." -</p> -<p> -"I told you who I was." -</p> -<p> -"Yes." -</p> -<p> -"Well, the Regenerationists, along with many other sincere men and -women in this country tried to prevent this war and are trying to -get it peaceably settled now. The Japs don't want to die. They want -a chance to live. We've got a lot of vainglorious, debauched, -professional soldiery that wanted to fight something, and now -they're getting their fill. In the first place, there is no need of -war and in the second place, when there is war, the same stamina -that will make efficient humans for the ordinary walks of life will -make good soldiers. But money talks louder than reason. The ruling -powers in American government are a crew of beer-bloated politicians -who are in the pay of a cabal of wine-soaked plutocrats, and the -American people under such administration have become a race of -mental and physical degenerates. The Japs knew this or they would -never have invaded the country." -</p> -<p> -"What are you going to do about it? And what are you doing here now -within the Japanese lines?" asked Ethel when her companion paused. -</p> -<p> -"Oh, I am acting as my own war correspondent," he replied, smiling a -little. -</p> -<p> -"<i>Pat-a-pat, pat-a-pat</i>"—Winslow jumped up excitedly and clambered -to the top of the embankment. -</p> -<p> -Ethel noting his alarm, slipped her feet into her sandals and rose -to follow him. -</p> -<p> -"Quick," he exclaimed, hurrying down the bank again. "It's American -cavalry." -</p> -<p> -"But let us go meet them," said the girl. -</p> -<p> -"No, never," replied Winslow, taking her by the arm and hurrying her -into the culvert. "You don't understand. As for you in kimo, your -reception would be anything but pleasant; and as for me, I'm an -outlaw with a price on my head." -</p> -<p> -Reaching the chink where the rocks had fallen out of the culvert -wall, Winslow squeezed into it and pulled the girl down beside him. -Carefully he crowded her feet and his own back so that their -presence could not be detected from the end of the culvert. -</p> -<p> -"I'm afraid we left tracks on the bank, but we can at least die -game," he said, pulling his magazine pistol from his belt and -handing it to the girl, while he drew from his hip pocket the weapon -he had taken from the dead aviator. -</p> -<p> -"I hate these things," he said, "but when a man is in a corner and -no chance to run, I suppose he's justified in using a cowardly -fighting machine." -</p> -<p> -They heard clearly now the hoof beats on the roadway above. -Presently an officer rode his horse down to the stream at the head -of the culvert. "Anything under there?" called a voice from above. -</p> -<p> -"Nothing doing," replied the other, peering beneath the archway. -</p> -<p> -"You're a fool sitting there like that," called a third voice. -"Company C lost two men back there from a wounded Jap under a -bridge." -</p> -<p> -The horseman urged his beast up the bank and the troop passed on. -</p> -<p> -For some hours the man and the girl remained in the culvert; -meanwhile Winslow explained the Regenerationist movement, which was -not as his enemies interpreted, a traitorous party favoring the -Japanese, but only a group of thinkers who advocated principles not -unlike those which had made the Japanese such a superior race either -at peace or at war. -</p> -<p> -As she listened, it seemed to Ethel as if her own dream had come -true, for here indeed was a man of her own blood with stamina of -physique and mental and moral courage, who professed and practiced -all she had found that was good among the people of her enforced -adoption and in addition much that, to her with her racial prejudice -in his favor, seemed even better than the ways of Japanese. -</p> -<p> -In reply to her questions as to the cause of his outlawry, Winslow -explained that he and other leaders of his party had long been at -swords' points with the conservatives who were in power and that the -administration, taking advantage of the martial frenzy of the war, -were persecuting the Regenerationists as supposed traitors. -</p> -<div style="height: 4em;"><hr></div> - -<p> -As the sun indicated mid-forenoon the dishevelled editor of the -Regenerationist and his newly found follower sauntered forth and -took to the turnpike. -</p> -<p> -"We may as well be on the road," he argued. "The sooner the American -people get the inside facts of this affair the sooner they will -decide to stop it, and it's forty-five miles to the nearest place -where I can get in touch with my people." -</p> -<p> -Bareheaded, through the hot sun, they travelled rapidly along the -turnpike, keeping a sharp lookout for occasional parties of cavalry -and hiding in the fields until they passed. Sometimes they talked of -the contrasted ways of life in Japan and in America, and again -Winslow wrote hurriedly in his note-book as he walked. -</p> -<p> -About three o'clock in the afternoon they stopped in the shade where -a rivulet fell over a small cataract. -</p> -<p> -"Aren't you hungry?" asked Ethel, after they had drunk from the -brook. -</p> -<p> -"I don't know. I hadn't thought of it particularly," replied her -companion. "Let's see, the last time I ate was in a farmhouse north -of Houston. That was eight days ago. When have you last eaten?" -</p> -<p> -"Yesterday morning," replied the girl. -</p> -<p> -"Then you are probably hungrier than I am." -</p> -<p> -With their conversation and the murmur of the waterfall they had -failed to detect the approach of two cavalry officers, who, walking -their tired mounts, had come up unheeded. -</p> -<p> -"Hey! look at the beauty in breeches!" called one of the approaching -men. -</p> -<a name="image-0009"><!--IMG--></a> -<center> -<img src="images/315.jpg" alt="He Rolled a Bundle of 'Regenerationists' on the Wing -Of the Aeroplane Below."> -</center> -<!--IMAGE END--> -<p> -"Her for mine," returned the other. -</p> -<p> -"I saw it first—hie!" returned the first, drawing rein. -</p> -<p> -"Give it to me, you hog; you've got one!" -</p> -<p> -"All right, all right—go take it—maybe the bum will object," -laughed the first, as the unshaven Winslow advanced in front of the -girl. -</p> -<p> -"Run quick," called Winslow to Ethel. "They're too drunk to shoot -straight." -</p> -<p> -The turnpike was inclosed by a high, woven-wire fence, and the girl -obeying turned down the road. Her would-be claimant put spurs to his -horse and dashed after her, leaving Winslow covering the rear -horseman with his magazine pistol. -</p> -<p> -"Well," said the drunken officer weakly, "I ain't doing nothing." -</p> -<p> -"Then ride down the road the other way as fast as you can go." -</p> -<p> -The officer obeyed. -</p> -<p> -For a moment Winslow watched him and then turned to see Ethel -climbing over the woven-wire fence with the soldier trying to urge -his horse up the embankment to reach her. -</p> -<p> -Winslow started to run to the girl's rescue, but no sooner had he -turned than a bullet sang past his ear. Wheeling about he saw the -other cavalryman riding toward him firing as he came. -</p> -<p> -With lewd brutality calling for vengeance in one direction and a man -firing at his back from the other, Winslow's aversion to bloodshed -became nil; and, aiming cool, he began firing at the approaching -officer. -</p> -<p> -It must have been the horse that got the bullet, for with the third -shot mount and rider somersaulted upon the macadam. -</p> -<p> -Without compunction, Winslow turned and sprinted down the roadway. -He saw Ethel dashing across the field, hurdling the cotton rows. The -officer was racing down the road, seeming away from her, but in -another moment he turned through a gap in the fence and rode down -upon the fleeing woman. -</p> -<p> -The athletic Winslow vaulted the six-foot fence with an easy spring, -and tore madly through the obstructing vegetation. -</p> -<p> -The rider overtaking the woman, tried to hold her, first by the arm, -and failing in that, he grabbed her by the hair. Winslow wondered -why she did not shoot him, and then he recalled that he was carrying -both weapons. -</p> -<p> -In another instant he was up with them and had dragged the man from -his horse and flung him to the ground. The soldier kicked and swore, -but half drunk, his resistance was of small consequence to his -well-trained adversary. -</p> -<p> -"Here," called Winslow to the girl, who had tumbled down in a heap -more from fright than physical exhaustion, "come and get my knife -and cut the rein from the horse's bridle." -</p> -<p> -Thus equipped, the two strapped their captive's hands and one foot -together behind him. -</p> -<p> -"There now," said Winslow, as he relieved the officer of his weapon. -"Hop back to the bridge and look after your comrade. He fell on the -turnpike a while ago and I'm afraid he hurt his head. We'll have to -be going." -</p> -<p> -"Shall we take the horse?" asked Ethel. -</p> -<p> -"No," replied her companion, beginning to throw clods at the animal, -"we'll simply run him away. As for us, we are safer on foot, and -will in the long run make better time." -</p> -<p> -"You are not tired, are you?" he asked, as they turned into the -roadway again. -</p> -<p> -"No," she replied, "only a bit tired and weak from my scare. How far -have we come?" -</p> -<p> -"Fifteen miles, perhaps; I really hardly know; we've been -interrupted so much." -</p> -<p> -They made a long detour through the fields to avoid a group of -buildings. Striking the road again, they soon came upon a slight -rise of land that stood well above the level of the surrounding -country. -</p> -<p> -"Are we not rather conspicuous here?" asked the girl. -</p> -<p> -"Well, rather," admitted her companion, pausing to look around; "but -I guess we can see as far as we can be seen." -</p> -<p> -"Look! look!" called Ethel excitedly, jerking her companion's arm -and pointing to the south, where the flat horizon was broken by the -derricks and tanks of the oil fields. -</p> -<p> -At first Winslow saw nothing, and then shading his eyes he sighted -what looked like a great bevy of birds flying just above the -horizon. -</p> -<p> -Larger and larger grew the specks against the sky. -</p> -<p> -"They will be over us in fifteen minutes," said Winslow; "let's get -up in that oak over there, where we can see without being seen." -</p> -<p> -Safely hidden by the enveloping foliage, the man and the girl now -watched the approach of the planes. As they came over the oil region -the planes began swooping near the ground and then rapidly rising -again. -</p> -<p> -"Its Japanese after the American cavalry, I guess," said Winslow. In -a few minutes black smoke belched forth at numerous points from the -petroleum works. -</p> -<p> -After a time a cloud of dust arose from a great meadow that spread -for several miles to the north of the oil wells. A group of -aeroplanes hovered closely above the dust cloud and kept up that -periodical swooping towards the earth. -</p> -<p> -"It's stampeding cavalry," said the sharp-eyed Ethel, "and the -airmen are dropping bombs on them." -</p> -<p> -The cloud of dust came nearer and nearer until they could see the -swift fall of the deadly missiles from the swooping planes and the -havoc wrought in the straggling ranks by the showers of pellets from -the shrapnel exploding above their heads. -</p> -<p> -When the foremost of the cavalry troop were perhaps a quarter of a -mile from the observers, a commanding officer, who was riding well -in the lead, wheeled his horse, threw away his jacket, tore off his -white shirt and waived it frantically above his head. -</p> -<p> -An answering truce flag soon appeared from a plane above and the -jaded horsemen, riding up, drew rein and waited. -</p> -<p> -The truce plane now swooped low and dropped a message fastened to a -white cloth. A soldier caught it and brought it to the officer, who -signalled assent. -</p> -<p> -Orders were called along the line, and the men filed by and piled -their weapons in an inglorious heap. -</p> -<p> -After this most of the lazy circling planes rose and made off to the -left, while a few assigned to guard duty circled above the -retreating cavalry, as they moved off slowly in the opposite -direction. -</p> -<p> -Two belated members of the troop, who had lost their horses, flung -themselves down to rest for a moment in the lengthening shadow of -the oak tree. -</p> -<p> -"Oh Gawd!" said one, as he panted and mopped his forehead. "Oh Gawd! -I was scared! That damned shrapnel bursting right over us and no -chance to fight back or get away. It ain't no fair fighting like -that—you can't get at 'em." -</p> -<p> -"They've tricked us, they have," returned his companion. "Our own -airmen's up in Nebraska chasing the Japs that gave us the slip this -morning, and here these damn hawks come swooping in. I reckon it's -reinforcements from Japan. The transports that brought the first -bunch must have been back and got another load, and this time it -seems to be regular soldiers—here to kill—the others were just -decoys." -</p> -<p> -"No, they ain't exactly decoys; they're here to stay and raise -families, and damned if that ain't what I'm going to do, if I ever -get out of this. Gawd! our loss must be something awful, and they're -at it yet. Look! see 'em over there by Beaumont like a flock of -crows. The bunch that got us was just a few of them." -</p> -<p> -For a time both soldiers eyed the distant fighting. -</p> -<p> -"When I get out of this," continued the first speaker; "when I get -out, I'm going to join the Regenerationists." -</p> -<p> -"What's that; peace cranks?" -</p> -<p> -"Yep; but it's more than that, it's health cranks and temperance -cranks, and moral cranks, and socialist cranks, and every other kind -of crank that believes in people being decent and living -happy—health, quiet lives, instead of fighting and robbing -and—boozing and abusing themselves and each other to death." -</p> -<p> -"Oh, Hell! don't preach just because you're scared," said the other, -getting up. -</p> -<p> -"Call it preaching if you like, but believe me, I've been getting -letters from the folks back home, and my people ain't such poor -stuff either, if I did join the army, and I want to tell you that -such preaching is getting damn popular lately. This fall's election, -you know, and the way we've been done up here to-day, will have a -lot to do with the outcome." -</p> -<p> -"We'd better move," said the other, looking up. "That Jap up there -thinks we're going back after our guns." -</p> -<div style="height: 4em;"><hr></div> - -<p> -With the oil regions again in the hands of the vigilant Japanese, -Winslow and Ethel found escape more perilous and difficult. But on -the third night they succeeded in getting through the lines and -reaching Winslow's confederates, who were awaiting him near St. -Charles, La. From hence they travelled by aeroplane to a secluded -railroadless valley in the heart of the Ozarks. -</p> -<p> -It was here that the secret printing plant of the <i>Regenerationist</i> -had been established. Ethel knew nothing of printing or journalism, -but a place was found for her in the department of circulation. -</p> -<p> -While news could be received via wireless, the paper and supplies, -as well as the men who went to and fro from the secret printing -plant of the outlawed publication, had to be transported by plane. -Aviators with sufficient skill and daring for the task were hard to -find. Already at home in the air, it was only a few days until Ethel -was driving a plane on a paper route. -</p> -<p> -The seven hundred miles to Denver she covered one night, returning -the next. She started out with half a ton of papers—seventy-two -thousand copies—which in suitable bundles were dropped by the boy -in the center of the triangular signal fires which local agents -built at night in open fields. -</p> -<p> -Once she lost her load by a fall in the Kansas River, and once she -ran out of fuel and held up a rich country house at the point of a -pistol and demanded the supply of automobile gasoline. -</p> -<p> -Worst of all, she was chased one night by a government secret -service plane. Despairing of outflying them, she got and held the -position directly above their craft, while the boy rolled a -two-hundred-pound bale of <i>Regenerationists</i> over on the other's -wing and sent the Federal airmen somersaulting into eternity. -</p> -<p> -But these stirring times did not last long. With the second Japanese -invasion and the Orientals now established in two widely separated -sections of the country, the authorities at Washington soon acceded -to a truce, and one of the immediate results was abolition of -martial law and re-establishment of a free press. -</p> -<p> -Throughout the summer, in the rice lands in the South, and the wheat -lands of the North, the Japanese lived, harmless gardeners of their -newly acquired possessions. But their gasoline tanks were full and -they carried sufficient conflagration bombs to have fired every city -from New Orleans to St. Paul, had the truce been broken by American -treachery. -</p> -<p> -The <i>Regenerationist</i>, now removed to St. Louis, was again a -full-sized newspaper. The party in power, supported by the -capitalistic and military classes, preached old-fashioned patriotism -and with martial music and flying flags tried to enthuse the people. -But the terror of the American soldiery in the unfair battle of -Beaumont had gone abroad throughout the land. The people feared the -draft for military service—they feared the firing of the -cities—the poisoning of their water supplies and a hundred other -spectres which in the minds of a degenerate and servile city -population the presence of a successful aerial enemy had inspired. -</p> -<p> -The reform party of the <i>Regenerationists</i> had by the fortunes of -war achieved a tremendous growth. Their recruits came both from the -better element who had thus been awakened from their lethargy, and -from the cowardly rabble who supported peace because of the terror -in their hearts. -</p> -<p> -Gerald Stoddard, Chancellor of the University of Illinois, a big -sound man of clean mind and clean body, was chosen as the radical -presidential candidate, and won with an overwhelming majority. -</p> -<p> -His election meant peace between the warring powers, and strong -likelihood of peace in the world for all time to come. It also meant -other things. It meant the complete inversion of the American policy -and the welcoming of science as the servant of mankind's larger -needs and not merely a flunky to the degenerate, luxury-loving few. -</p> -<p> -President-elect Stoddard, with masterful hand, began at once the -organization of the new administration. Among the appointees whom he -early announced was that of Stanley Winslow, to the position of -Secretary of Public Health. -</p> -<p> -In his telegram of acceptance, Winslow said: -</p> -<p> -"In signifying my intention of accepting the position of Secretary -of Public Health in your Cabinet, I wish to say that it will be my -sole purpose to prove myself possessed of the larger patriotism -which would defend our race against retrogression and annihilation, -not by such antiquated and inefficient methods as immigration -restriction or mechanical warfare, but by the improvement of the -race itself." -</p> -<p> -And Ethel, too, sent a telegram. It read: -</p> -<p> -PROFESSOR AND MADAME OSHIMA,<br> -<span style='margin-left: 4em;'>JAPANESE OCCUPATION,</span><br> -<span style='margin-left: 8em;'>SOUTH DAKOTA.</span><br> -</p> -<p> -As soon as travel is freely established come and visit us. When are -the children coming over? -</p> -<p> -ETHEL CALVERT WINSLOW,<br> -<span style='margin-left: 4em;'>Care the <i>Regenerationist</i>.</span><br> -</p> -<p> -St. Louis, Mo. -</p> -<p> -But of Komoru she said not a word. She couldn't forget the -unfathomable look in his eyes. 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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: In the Clutch of the War-God - -Author: Milo Hastings - -Release Date: September 26, 2004 [EBook #13526] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IN THE CLUTCH OF THE WAR-GOD *** - - - - -Produced by Roger Taft, grandson of the author, and -Jim Tinsley. - - - - - -In the Clutch of the War-God - -In three parts, from Physical Culture magazine, July - September, 1911. - - - - -PART ONE - - -In the Clutch of the War-God - -THE TALE OF THE ORIENT'S INVASION OF THE OCCIDENT, AS CHRONICLED IN -THE HUMANICULTURE SOCIETY'S "HISTORY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY" - -By Milo Hastings - - - -FOREWORD: In this strange story of another day, -the author has "dipped into the future" and viewed -with his mind's eye the ultimate effect of -America's self-satisfied complacency, and her -persistent refusal to heed the lessons of Oriental -progress. I can safely promise the reader who -takes up this unique recital of the twentieth -century warfare, that his interest will be -sustained to the very end by the interesting -deductions and the keen insight into the -possibilities of the present trend of -international affairs exhibited by the -author.--Bernarr Macfadden. - - - -"Kindly be prepared to absent yourself at a moment's notice." It was -Goyu speaking, blundering, old fool. He was standing in the doorway -with his kitchen-apron on, and an iron spoon in his hand. - -"What on earth is the matter?" asked Ethel Calvert, tossing aside -her French novel in alarm, for such a lack of deference in Goyu -meant vastly more than appeared upon the surface. - -"I am informed," replied Goyu, gravely, "that there has been an -anti-foreign riot and that many are killed." - -"And father?" gasped Ethel. - -"He was upon the grain boat," said Goyu. - -"But where is he now?" - -"I do not know," returned Goyu, locking nervously over his shoulder. -"But I fear he has not fared well--the boat was dynamited--that's -what started the trouble." - -With a gasp Ethel recalled that an hour before she had heard an -explosion which she had supposed to be blasting. Faint with fear, -she staggered toward a couch and fell forward upon the cushions. - - * * * - -When the girl regained consciousness the house was dark. Slowly she -recalled the event that had culminated the uneventful day. She -wondered if Goyu had been lying or had gone crazy. The darkness was -not reassuring--her father always came home before dark, and his -absence now confirmed her fears. She wondered if the old servant had -deserted her. He was a poor stick anyway; Japanese men who had pride -or character no longer worked as domestics in the households of -foreigners. - -Ethel Calvert was the daughter of an American grain merchant who -represented the interests of the North American Grain Exporters -Association at the seaport of Otaru, in Hokaidi, the North Island of -Japan. Three years before her mother had died of homesickness and a -broken heart--although the Japanese physician had called it -tuberculosis, and had prescribed life in a tent! Had they not -suffered discomforts enough in that barbarous country without adding -insult to injury? - -Ethel was bountifully possessed of the qualities of hothouse beauty. -Her jet black hair hung over the snowy skin of her temples in -striking contrast. Her form was of a delicate slenderness and her -movement easy and graceful with just a little of that languid -listlessness considered as a mark of well-bred femininity. She knew -that she was beautiful according to the standards of her own people -and her isolation from the swirl of the world's social life was to -her gall and wormwood. - -The Calverts had never really "settled" in Japan, but had merely -remained there as homesick Americans indifferent to, or unjustly -prejudiced against the Japanese life about them. Now, in the year -1958, the growing anti-foreign feeling among the Japanese had added -to their isolation. Moreover, the Japanese bore the grain merchant -an especial dislike, for every patriotic Japanese was sore at heart -over the fact that, after a century of modern progress, Japan was -still forced to depend upon foreigners to supplement their food -supply. - -In fact, they had oft heard Professor Oshima grieve over the -statistics of grain importation, as a speculator might mourn his -personal losses in the stock market. - - * * * - -For a time Ethel lay still and listened to the faint sound of voices -from a neighboring porch. Then the growing horror of the situation -came over her with anewed force; if her father was dead, she was not -only alone in the world, but stranded in a foreign and an unfriendly -country; for there were but few Americans left in the city. - -The girl arose and crept nervously into the dining-room. She turned -on the electric light; everything seemed in order. She hurried over -to Goyu's room, and knocked. There was no answer. Then slowly -opening the door, she peered in--the room was empty and disordered. -Plainly the occupant had bundled together his few belongings and -flown. - -Ethel stole back through the silent house and tremblingly took down -the telephone receiver. In vain she called the numbers of the few -American families of the city. Last on the list was the American -Consulate, and this time she received the curt information that the -consul had left the city by aeroplane "with the other foreigners." -The phrase struck terror into her heart. If the European population -had flown in such haste as to overlook her, clearly there was -danger. A great fear grew upon her. Afraid to remain where she was, -she tried to think of ways of escape. She could not steer an -aeroplane even if she were able to obtain one. Otaru was far from -the common ways of international traffic and the ships lying at -anchor in the harbor were freighters, Japanese owned and Japanese -manned. - -Ethel looked at her watch--it was nine-twenty. She tiptoed to her -room. - -An hour later she was in the street dressed in a tailored suit of -American make and carrying in her hand-bag a few trinkets and -valuables she had found in the house. Passing hurriedly through -quiet avenues, she was soon in the open country. The road she -followed was familiar to her, as she had traveled it many times by -auto. - -For hours she walked rapidly on. Her unpracticed muscles grew tired -and her feet jammed forward in high-heeled shoes were blistered and -sore. But fear lent courage and as the first rays of the morning sun -peeked over the hill-tops, the refugee reached the outskirts of the -city of Sapporo. - -Ethel made straightway for the residence of Professor Oshima, the -Soil Chemist of the Imperial Agricultural College of Hokiado--a -Japanese gentleman who had been educated and who had married abroad, -and a close friend of her father's. As she reached the door of the -Professor's bungalow, she pushed the bell, and sank exhausted upon -the stoop. - -Some time afterward she half-dreamed and half realized that she -found herself neatly tucked between white silk sheets and lying on a -floor mattress of a Japanese sleeping-porch. A gentle breeze fanned -her face through the lattice work and low slanting sunbeams sifting -in between the shutters fell in rounded blotches upon the opposite -straw matting wall. For a time she lay musing and again fell asleep. - -When she next awakened, the room was dimly lighted by a little -glowing electric bulb and Madame Oshima was sitting near her. Her -hostess greeted her cordially and offered her water and some fresh -fruit. - -Madame Oshima was fully posted upon the riots and confirmed Ethel's -fears as to the fate of her father. - -[Illustration: "But have I lost my figure?" inquired the lithe -Madame Oshima.] - -"You will be safe here for the present," her hostess assured her. -"Professor Oshima has been called to Tokio; when he returns we will -see what can be done concerning your embarking for America." - -Madame Oshima was of French descent but had fully adopted Japanese -customs and ways of thinking. - -As soon as Ethel was up and about, her hostess suggested that she -exchange her American-made clothing for the Japanese costume of the -time. But Ethel was inclined to rebel. - -"Why," she protested, "if I discarded my corsets I would lose my -figure." - -"But have I lost my figure?" inquired the lithe Madame Oshima, -striking an attitude. - -To this Ethel did not reply, but continued, "And I would look like a -man," for among the Japanese people tight-belted waists and flopping -skirts had long since been replaced by the kimo, a single-piece -garment worn by both sexes and which fitted the entire body with -comfortable snugness. - -"And is a man so ill-looking?" asked her companion, smiling. - -"Why, no, of course not, only he's different. Why, I couldn't wear a -kimo--people would see--my limbs," stammered the properly-bred -American girl. - -"Why, no, they couldn't," replied Madame Oshima. "Not if you keep -your kimo on." - -"But they would see my figure." - -"Well, I thought you just said that was what you were afraid they -wouldn't see." - -"But I don't mean that way--they--they could see the shape of my--my -legs," said Ethel, blushing crimson. - -"Are you ashamed that your body has such vulgar parts?" returned the -older woman. - -"No, of course not," said Ethel, choking back her embarrassment. -"But it's wicked for a girl to let men know such things." - -"Oh, they all know it," replied Madame Oshima, "they learn it in -school." - -At this the highly strung Ethel burst into sobs. - -"There, there now," said her companion, regretting that she had -spoken sarcastically. "I forget that I once had such ideas also. -We'll talk some more about it after while. You are nervous and -worried now and must have more rest." - -The next day Madame Oshima more tactfully approached the subject and -showed her protege that while in Rome it was more modest to do as -the Romans do; and that, moreover, it was necessary for her own good -and theirs that she attract as little attention as possible, and to -those that recognized her Caucasian blood appear, superficially, at -least, as a naturalized citizen of Japan. - -So, amid blushes and tears, protestations and laughter, Ethel -accepted the kimo, or one-piece Japanese garment, and the outer -flowing cloak to be worn on state occasions when freedom of bodily -movement was not required. Her feather-adorned hat was discarded -altogether and her ill-shapen high-heeled boots replaced by airy -slippers of braided fiber. - -Her rather short stature and her hair--which fortunately enough was -black--served to lessen her conspicuousness, especially when dressed -in the fashion followed by Japanese girls; and with the leaving off -of the use of cosmetics and the spending of several hours a day in -the flower garden even her pallid complexion suffered rapid change. - -It was about a fortnight before Professor Oshima returned from -Tokio. Upon his arrival Ethel at once pleaded with him to be sent to -America, but the scientist slowly shook his head. - -"It is too late," he said; "there is going to be a war." - -Thus it happened that Ethel Calvert was retained in the Professor's -family as a sort of English tutor to his children, and introduced as -a relative of his wife, and no one suspected that she was one of the -hated Americans. - - * * * - -The trouble between Japan and the United States dated back to the -early part of the century. It was deep-seated and bitter, and was -not only the culmination of a rivalry between the leading nations of -the great races of mankind, but a rivalry between two great ideas or -policies that grew out in opposite directions from the age of -unprecedented mechanical and scientific progress that marked the -dawn of the twentieth century. - -The pages of history had been turned rapidly in those years. The -United States, long known as the richest country, had also become -the most populous nation of the Caucasian world--and wealth and -population had made her vain. - -But with all her material glory, there was not strength in American -sinews, nor endurance in her lungs, nor vigor in the product of her -loins. Her people were herded together in great cities, where they -slept in gigantic apartment houses, like mud swallows in a sand -bank. They overate of artificial food that was made in great -factories. They over-dressed with tight-fitting unsanitary clothing -made by the sweated labor of the diseased and destitute. They -over-drank of old liquors born of ancient ignorance and of new -concoctions born of prostituted science. They smoked and perfumed -and doped with chemicals and cosmetics--the supposed virtues of -which were blazoned forth on earth and sky day and night. - -The wealth of the United States was enormous, yet it was chiefly in -the hands of the few. The laborers went forth from their rookeries -by subway and monorail, and served their shifts in the mills of -industry. - -In turn, others took their places, and the mills ground night and -day. - -Even the farm lands had been largely taken over by corporate -control. Crops on the plains were planted with power machinery. The -rough lands had all been converted into forests or game preserves -for the rich. Agriculture had been developed as a science, but not -as a husbandry. The forcing system had been generally applied to -plants and animals. Wonder-working nitrogenous fertilizers made at -Niagara and by the wave motors of the coast made all vegetation to -grow with artificial luxury. Corn-fed hogs and the rotund carcasses -of stall-fed cattle were produced on mammoth ranches for the -edification of mankind, and fowl were hatched by the billions in -huge incubators, and the chicks reared and slaughtered with scarcely -a touch of a human hand. And all this was under the control of -concentrated business organization. The old, sturdy, wasteful farmer -class had gone out of existence. - -Only the rich who owned aeroplanes could afford to live in the -country. The poor had been forced to the cities where they could be -sheltered _en masse_, and fed, as it were, by machinery. New York -had a population of twenty-three millions. Manhattan Island had been -extended by filling in the shallows of the bay, until the Battery -reached almost to Staten Island. The aeroplane stations that topped -her skyscrapers stood, many of them, a quarter of a mile from the -ground. - -As the materially greatest nation in the world, the United States -had an enormous national patriotism based on vanity. The larger -patriotism for humanity was only known in the prattle of her -preachers and idealists. America was the land of liberty--and -liberty had come to mean the right to disregard the rights of -others. - -In Japan, too, there had been changes, but Japan had received the -gifts of science in a far different spirit. With her, science had -been made to serve the more ultimate needs of the race, rather than -the insane demand for luxuries. - -The Japanese had applied to the human species the scientific -principles of heredity, nutrition and physical development, which in -America had been confined to plants and animals. The old spirit of -Japanese patriotism had grown into a semi-religious worship of -racial fitness and a moral pride developed which eulogized the -sacrifice of the liberties of the individual to the larger needs of -the people. Legal restrictions of the follies of fashion in dress -and food, the prohibition of alcohol and narcotics, the restriction -of unwise marriages, and the punishments of immorality were -stoically accepted, not as the blue laws of religious fanaticism, -but as requisites of racial progress and a mark of patriotism. - -And while Japan showed no signs of the extravagant wealth seen in -America, she was far from being poor. She had gained little from -centralized and artificial industry, but she had wasted less in -insane competition and riotous luxury. - -But in Japanese life there was one unsolved problem. That was her -food supply. Intensive culture would do wonders and the just -administration of wealth and the physical efficiency of her people -had eliminated the waste of supporting the non-productive, but an -acre is but a small piece of land at most, and Japan had long since -passed the point where the number of her people exceeded the number -of her acres. A quarter of an acre would produce enough grain and -coarse vegetables to keep a man alive, but the Japanese wanted eggs -and fruit and milk for their children; and they wanted cherry trees -and chrysanthemums, lotus ponds and shady gardens with little -waterfalls. - -[Illustration: In the nineteenth month of the war, the emblem of the -Rising Sun was hoisted over Manila.] - -Now if the low birth rate that had resulted when the examinations -for parenthood were first enforced had continued, Japan would not -have been so crowded, but after the first generation of marriage -restriction the percentage of those who reached the legal standard -of fitness was naturally increased. The scientists and officials had -from time to time considered the advisability of increasing the -restrictions--and yet why should they? The Japanese people had -submitted to the prohibition of the marriage of the unfit, but they -loved children; and, with their virile outdoor life, the instinct of -procreation was strong within them. True, the assignable lands in -Japan continued to grow smaller, but what reason was there for -stifling the reproductive instincts of a vigorous people in a great -unused world half populated by a degenerate humanity? - -So Japan was land hungry--not for lands to conquer, as of old, nor -yet for lands to exploit commercially, but for food and soil and -breathing space for her children. - -Among opponents of Japanese racial expansion, the United States was -the greatest offender. Japanese immigration had long since been -forbidden by the United States, and American diplomats had more -recently been instrumental in bringing about an agreement among the -powers of Europe by which all outlets were locked against the -overflowing stream of Asiatic population. - -Indeed, America called Japan the yellow peril; and with her own -prejudices to maintain, her institutions of graft and exploitation -to fatten her luxury-loving lords and her laborers to appease, she -was in mortal terror of the simple efficiency of the Japanese people -who had taken the laws of Nature into their own hands and shaped -human evolution by human reason. - -As Commodore Perry had forced the open door of commerce upon Japan a -century before, so Japan decided to force upon America the -acknowledgment of any human being's right to live in any land on -earth. She had tried first by peaceful means to secure these ends, -but failing here and driven on by the lash of her own necessity, -Japan had come to feel that force alone could break the clannish -resistance of the Anglo-Saxon, who having gone into the four corners -of the earth and forced upon the world his language, commerce and -customs, now refused to receive ideas or citizens in return. - -And thus it came to pass that the West and the East were in the -clutch of the War-God. No one knew just what the war would be like, -for the wars of the last century had been bluffing, bulldozing -affairs concerning trade agreements or Latin-American revolutions. -There had been no great clash of great ideas and great peoples. - -The harbors of the world were filled with huge, floating, -flat-topped battleships, within the capacious interiors of which -were packed the parts of aeroplanes as were the soldiers of the -Grecian army in their wooden horse at Troy, for assembling and -launching them. But the engines of warfare which men had repeatedly -claimed would make war so terrible as to end war, had failed to -fulfill anticipations. The means of defense and the rules of the -game had kept pace with the means of destruction. The flat tops of -the warships, which served as alighting platforms for friendly -planes, were heavily armored against missiles dropped from -unfriendly ones. The explosion of a bomb on top of a plate of steel -is a rather tame affair, and guns sufficient to penetrate armor -plate could not be carried on air-craft. The big guns of -battleships, which had for a time grown bigger and bigger, had now -gone quite out of use, for the coming of the armored top had been -followed by the toad-stool warship, which had a roof like an -inverted saucer, and was provided with water chambers, the opening -of the traps of which caused a sudden sinking of the vessel until -the eave dipped beneath the water level and left exposed only the -sloping roof from which the heaviest shot would glance like a bullet -from the frozen surface of a pond. - -The first two years of war dragged on in the Pacific. American grain -was of course cut off from Japan and the government authorities -ordered the people to plow up their flower gardens and plant food -crops. - -The Americans had too much territory to protect to take the -offensive and their Pacific fleet lay close to Manila, where, with -the help of land aviation forces, they hoped to hold the possession -of the islands, which according to the popular American view was -supposed to be the prize for which the Japanese had gone to war. - -The test of the actual warfare proved several things upon which -mankind had long been in doubt. One of these was that, with all the -expert mechanism that science and invention had supplied, the -personal equation of the man could not be eliminated. Aviation -increased the human element in warfare. To shoot straight requires -calm nerves, but to fly straight requires also agility and -endurance. - -The American aeroplanes were made of steel and aluminum, and when -they hit the water they sank like lead, but the Japanese planes were -made of silk and bamboo, and their engines were built with multiple -compartment air tanks and after a battle the Japanese picked up the -floating engines and placed them, ready to use, in inexpensive new -planes. - - * * * - -In the nineteenth month of the war, Manila surrendered, and the -emblem of the rising sun was hoisted throughout the Philippine -Islands. The remnant of the American fleet retreated across the -Pacific, and the world supposed that the war was over. - -But Japan refused the American proposals of peace, which conceded -them the Philippines, unless the United States be also opened to -universal immigration. And so it was that when Japan, in addition to -accepting the Philippines, demanded the right to settle her cheap -labor in the United States, the American authorities cut short the -peace negotiation and began concentrating troops and battleships -along the Pacific Coast in fear of an invasion of California. - - * * * - -With Ethel Calvert's adoption into Professor Oshima's family there -came a great change in her life. At first, she accepted Japanese -food and Japanese clothes as the old-time prisoner accepted stripes -and bread and water. But her captivity proved less repulsive than -she expected and she was soon confessing to herself that there was -much good in Japanese life. Professor and Madame Oshima were not -talkative on general topics but the books on the shelves of the -Professor's library proved a godsend to the awakening mind of the -young woman. Indeed, after a mental diet of French and English -fiction upon which Ethel had been reared, the works on science and -humaniculture, the dreams of universal brotherhood, the epics of a -race in its conquests of disease and poverty were as meat and drink -to her eager, hungry mind. - -As the war went on, the horror of it all grew upon her. She read -Howki's "America." She didn't believe it all, but she realized that -most of it was true. She wondered why her people were fighting to -keep out the Japanese. She marvelled that the Japanese who had -adopted such lofty ideals of race culture could find the heart to go -to war. She wished she might be free to go to the government -officials at Tokio and Washington to show them the folly of it all. -Surely if the American statesmen understood Japanese ideals and the -superiority of their habits and customs for the production of happy -human beings, they would never have waged war to keep them out of -the States. - - * * * - -"In three days we leave Japan," said Professor Oshima, as he sat -down to dinner one evening in the early part of April, 1960. - -"All?" asked Komoru, the Professor's secretary. - -"We four," replied Oshima, indicating those at the table, "the -children will stay with my mother. I'll need your assistance, and as -for Miss Ethel, she cannot well stay here, so I have had you two -listed. Although it's a little irregular, I am sure it will not be -questioned, for I know more about American soils than any other man -in Japan." - -Ethel glanced apprehensively at Komoru. She had never quite -understood her own attitude toward that taciturn young Japanese whom -she had seen daily for two years without hardly making his -acquaintance. She admired him and yet she feared him. - -Professor Oshima was saying that she had been "listed" with Komoru -for some great journey. What did it mean? What could she do? Again -she looked up at the secretary; but far from seeing any trace of -scheme or plot in his enigmatical countenance, she found him to be -considering the situation with the same equanimity with which he -would have recorded the calcium content of a soil sample. - -As for Professor and Madame Oshima, they seemed equally unruffled -about the proposed journey, and not at all inclined to elucidate the -mystery. Experience had taught the younger woman that when -information was not offered it was unwise to ask questions, so when -the Professor busied himself with much ransacking of his pamphlets -and papers and his wife became equally occupied with overhauling the -family wardrobe and getting the children off to their grandmother's, -Ethel accepted unquestionably the statement that she would be -limited to twenty kilograms of clothing and ten kilograms of other -personal effects, and lent assistance as best she could to the -enterprise in hand. - -On the third day the little party, with their light luggage boarded -a train for Hakodate, at which point they arrived at noon. Hurrying -along the docks among others burdened like themselves, they came to -a great low-lying, turtle-topped warship; and, passing down a -gangway, entered the brilliantly lighted interior. - -The constant flood of new passengers came, not in mixed and motley -groups, as the ordinary crowd of passengers, but by two, male and -female, as the unclean beasts into the ark. And they were all young -in years and athletic in frame--the very cream and flower of the -race. - - -[Illustration: Every few seconds an aeroplane shot into the air and -joined the endless winged line.] - - -Late that evening the vessel steamed out of port, and during the -next two days was joined by a host of other war craft, and the great -squadron moved in orderly procession to the eastward. - -One point, that Ethel soon discovered was that, in addition to being -excellent physical specimens, all the men, and many of the women, -were proficient as aviators. Of these facts life on board bore ample -evidence, for the great fan ventilated gymnasium was the most -conspicuous part of the ship's equipment and here in regular drills -and in free willed disportive exercise those on board kept -themselves from stagnation during the idleness of the voyage. Into -this gymnasium work Ethel entered with great gusto, for there was a -revelation in the discovery of her own physical capabilities that -surprised and fascinated her. - -In the other chief interest of her fellow passengers, Ethel was an -apt pupil, for though woefully ignorant of aviation, she was eager -to learn. She spent many hours in the company of Professor or Madame -Oshima, studying aeroplane construction and operation from the -displayed mechanisms on board. In fact, they found the great roomy -hold of the ship was packed with aeroplane parts. Small gasoline -turbines were stored in crates by the hundreds; also wings and -rudders knocked down and laid flat against each other and still -lower down in the framework of the floating palace were vast stores -of gasoline. - -At the end of two weeks the Japanese squadron was in latitude 34° -north, longitude 125° west, and headed directly for the Los Angeles -district of Southern California--the richest and most densely -populated area of the United States. - -One evening, just at dark, after they had been in sight of the -American aerial scouts all day, the Japanese fleet changed its -course and turned sharply to the southward. Now Panama was six days' -steaming from Los Angeles and less than three days from New Orleans. -So the authorities at Washington ordered all warships and available -soldiers on the Gulf Coast to embark for the Isthmus. - -Meanwhile there was much going on beneath the armor plate of the -Japanese transports, and on the fourth day of their southward -movement the great trap doors were swung down and aeroplane parts -were run out on the tramways, the planes rapidly set up by skilled -workmen, and firmly hooked to the floor. Above and below deck they -stood in great rows like lines of automobiles in a garage. - -Towards sundown the forward planes were manned and in quick -succession shot down the runways and took to the air. Ethel and her -companions were below air the time and hardly knew what was going -on. Their luggage had been taken up some time ago, except for an -extra kima, which they had been ordered to put on. In their turn -they were now called out and ordered to go above, that is, the names -of the men were called and Ethel knew that she was listed as Madame -Komoru, a thing that made her shiver every time it was brought to -her attention. - -An exclamation or astonishment escaped the lips of the more -impulsive American girl as she came on deck; for as far as the eye -could see the gray flat tops of the war vessels were covered with -the drab-winged planes, while every few seconds a plane shot into -the air and joined an endless winged line that stretched away to the -northeast. - -"Komoru eighty-five: Oshima eighty-six." - -The intent of that command was clear and Ethel was soon settled -immediately behind the young secretary in the little bamboo car of a -Japanese plane-of-war. - -The propeller started with a shrill musical hum; they raced down the -runway; dipped for a second toward the water; rose, and sailed -swiftly up and on toward the dark line of Mexico, that lay in the -evening shadow cast by the curved surface of the Pacific Ocean. - - -(To be continued.) - - - - - -PART TWO. - - -In the Clutch of the War-God - -THE TALE OF THE ORIENT'S INVASION OF THE OCCIDENT, AS CHRONICLED IN -THE HUMANICULTURE SOCIETY'S "NOTES ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY". - -By Milo Hastings - -Synopsis of Previous Installment: In the year -1958, Ethel Calvert, a daughter of an American -grain-merchant, residing in Japan, because of her -father's death in an anti-foreign riot, is forced -to take refuge with Madame Oshima, the French wife -of a Japanese scientist. She becomes accustomed to -the mode of living followed by the Japanese, and -is finally persuaded to adopt the costume of the -land of her exile. War is declared between Japan -and the United States, and Professor Oshima, and -Komoru, his Secretary, together with Madame Oshima -and Ethel Calvert, sail for United States in a -Japanese war vessel. When near the Pacific Coast, -the many men and women who have been passengers on -the vessel, leave the ship by means of aeroplanes, -and sail eastwardly over Southern California. - - - -The air cut by Ethel's face at a ninety-mile gait, and she gripped -nervously at the hand-rails of the car. Then, regaining confidence, -she began to drink in the novel view about her. Ahead were the -drab-winged aeroplanes growing smaller and smaller until they became -mere specks against the darkening sky. She turned to the rear and -watched the myriads of humans, like birds, rising from the -transports that still lay in the sunshine. There were literally -thousands of them. She wondered if human eyes had ever before -witnessed so marvelous a sight. - -They had come over the mainland of Mexico now and were flying at a -height of about half a mile. Shrouded in the tropical twilight, the -landscape below was but dimly discernible. As the darkness came on, -Ethel discovered that a small light glowed from the side of the car -in front of the driver. Gripping the hand-rail, she made bold to -raise herself; and, stopping beneath the searchlight and machine-gun -that hung, one beneath the other, on swivels in the center of the -framework, she peered forward over Komoru's shoulder. - -The taciturn steersman turned and smiled but said nothing. Ethel -noted carefully the equipment of the driver's box. It was a -duplicate throughout of the dummy steering gear with which she had -practiced in the ship's gymnasium. One conspicuous addition, -however, was an object illuminated by the small glow lamp that had -attracted her attention. This proved to be chart or map mounted at -either end on short rollers. As the girl watched it, she perceived -that it moved slowly. A red line was drawn across the map and -hovering over this was the tip of a metal pointer. A compass and a -watch were mounted at one side of the chart case. - -Ethel watched the chart creep back on its rollers and reasoned that -the pointer indicated the location of the aeroplane. She wondered -how the movement of the chart was regulated with that of the plane. -Finally she decided to ask Komoru. - -"By the landmarks and the time," he said. "Do you see that blue -coming in on the northeast corner of the map?" - -"Yes." - -"Well, watch it." - -After a few minutes of waiting the words "_Gulf of Mexico_" rolled -out upon the chart. "Why, that can't be," said Ethel, "we just left -the Pacific Ocean." - -"But we have crossed the Isthmus of Tehauntepec," replied Komoru; -"it is only a hundred miles wide." - -His companion looked over the side of the car and to the front and. -to the right, she could see by the perfectly flat horizon that they -were approaching water. - -"The map is unrolling too fast," said Komoru, as the pointer stood -over the edge of the indicated water--and he pushed back the little -lever on the clock mechanism that rolled the chart. "We have a -little head wind," he added. - -Ethel resumed her seat and sat musing for a half hour or so. Komoru -looked around and called to her. - -"Look over to your left," he said. "The lights of Vera Cruz. We are -making better time now," he added, again adjusting the regulator on -the clock work. - -The driver contemplated his compass carefully and shifted his course -a few points to the right. Ethel settled in her bamboo cage and -pulled her aviation cap down tightly to shield her face and ears -from the wind pressure. - -For hours they sat so--the girl's heart throbbing with awe, wonder -and fear; the man unemotional and silent, a steady, firm hand on the -wheel, his feet on the engine controls and his goggled eyes glancing -critically at compass or watch or out into the starlit waste of the -night, disturbed only by the whirl and shadow of other planes which -with varying speed passed or were passed, as the aerial host rushed -onward. There were only small tail lights, one above and one below -the main plane, to warn following drivers against collision. - - - * * * - -With her head bent low upon her knees, Ethel at length fell into a -doze. She was aroused by Komoru's calling, and straightening up with -a start, she arose and leaned forward over the driver. Komoru was -looking intently at the scroll chart. In a moment she designed the -cause of his interest, for there had rolled across the forward -surface of the chart the outline of a coast. - -In the far left-hand corner was marked the city of Galveston, and to -the right was the Sabine River that forms the boundary between Texas -and Louisiana. Ethel raised her eyes from the map and looked far out -to the Northwest. Sure enough, she discerned the lights of a city at -the point where Galveston was indicated by the chart. - -"How far have we come?" she asked in astonishment. - -"Eight hundred miles," replied Komoru. "See, it is nearly -two-thirty. The first men with the faster planes were to have -arrived at one o'clock." - -A little later they passed over the dimly discernible coast line, -some thirty or forty miles to the east of Galveston. Komoru -carefully consulted his compass, watch and aneroid, and made a -slight change in his course. - -"Where do we land?" asked the girl. - -Komoru steadied the wheel with one hand; and, reaching into the -breast pocket of his aviator's jacket, he produced a little -document-like roll. "These are the orders," he explained, and asked -Ethel to spread out the papers on the chart case. - -The instruction sheet read: - -"Fly twenty-eight minutes beyond the coast line, -which will place you ten or twenty miles northwest -of the town of Beaumont, where a fire of some sort -will be lighted about 3 a.m. - -"When you alight locate one or more farm houses -and attach one of the enclosed notices to the -door. - -"This done, fly toward the Beaumont signal fire -and assist in subduing the town and capturing all -petroleum works in the region. - -"At 6 a.m., if petroleum works are safe, follow -the lead of the red plane and fly northwest as far -as Fort Worth, returning by nightfall to oil -region." - - -Ethel read the paper over and over as she held it down out of the -wind by the dim glow lamp. She wanted to ask questions. She wondered -what was expected of her. She wondered again as to what was expected -of the entire invasion and why the women had been brought along. But -her questions did not find verbal expression, for she had schooled -herself to await developments. - -The roller chart had now come to a stop and showed the red line that -marked their course terminating in a cross to the northwest of the -town of Beaumont. Komoru tilted the plane downward and flew for a -time near the earth. Then checking the speed, he ran it lightly -aground in an open field a little distance from a clump of -buildings. - -The driver got out and stretched his cramped limbs. Taking a hand -glow lamp he ran carefully over the mechanism of the plane. Then he -opened a locker and took out two small magazine pistols. One he -handed to Ethel. - -"Don't use it," he said, "until you have to." - -"Will you go with me?" he asked, "to tack the poster, or will you -stay with the plane?" - -"I'll stay here," she replied. - -Komoru walked off rapidly towards the house. Presently the stillness -was interrupted by the vociferous barking of a dog; Then there was a -sound as of some one picking a taut wire and the voice of the dog -curdled in a final yelp. - -In a few minutes Komoru was back. "Dogs are no good," he said; "they -produce nothing but noise." - -"Will you kindly get aboard, Miss Ethel? There is much to do." - -[Illustration: By carefully shielding his flash lamp, Komoru was -able to read a duplicate of the notice he had just fastened up.] - -Ethel obeyed; meanwhile Komoru inspected the surface of the ground -for a few yards in front of the plane. Returning he climbed into his -seat and started the engine. They arose without mishap. - -Within a mile or two, Komoru picked out another farm house and made -a landing nearby. - -"I will go with you this time," said Ethel courageously. - -Approaching an American residence, Ethel suddenly found herself -conscious of the fact that she was dressed in a most unladylike -Japanese kimo. For a moment the larger sentiments of the occasion -were replaced by the womanly query, "What will people say?" Then she -laughed inwardly at the absurdity of her thought. - -Komoru produced the roll from his pocket and unwound a small cloth -poster. This he fastened to the door jam by pressing in the thumb -tacks that were sewed in the hem. Then noting another white blotch -on the opposite side of the door, he carefully shielded his lamp, -and made a light. It was a duplicate of the notice he had just -fastened up and read: - - -WARNING - -"Two hundred thousand Japanese have invaded Texas -and are desirous of possessing your property. You -are respectfully requested to depart immediately -and apply to your government for property -elsewhere. All buildings not vacated within -twenty-four hours will be promptly burned--unless -displaying a flag truce for sufficient reason. -Kindly co-operate with us in avoiding bloodshed. - - (Signed) The Japanese People." - -"We were late," said Komoru as they walked back toward the plane. -"Two hundred thousand," he mused; "what you call 'bluff,' I guess." - -"It's growing light," said Ethel, as they reached the plane. - -"Yes, a little," replied Komoru, as he walked around to the front. -"An ugly ditch," he said. "We shall have to use the helicopter." - -Taking his seat he threw down a lever and what had appeared to be -two small superimposed planes above the main plane assumed the form -of flat screws. Letting the engine gain full headway, Komoru threw -the clutch on this shafting, and the vertical screws started -revolving in opposite directions with a great downward rush of air. -The whole apparatus tilted a bit, and then slowly but steadily -arose. - -When they had reached altitude of a hundred feet or so, the driver -shifted the power to the quieter horizontal propeller and the plane -sidled off like an eagle dropping from a crag. - -Tilting the plane upward, Komoru circled for altitude. Presently he -called back over his shoulder, saying that he saw the signal fire at -Beaumont at the same time heading the plane in that direction. - -As the dawn began to break in the East, the occasional passing -lights of flying planes became less bright and soon the planes -themselves stood out against the sky like shadows. And then the -whole majestic train of aerial invaders became visible as they -poured over the southern horizon---a never ending stream. - -Komoru and Ethel landed in a meadow already well filled with planes -and following the others, hurried along toward the town. - -There had been some fighting in the streets and a few buildings were -burning. Walking along to the main street of the town, they came -upon a crowd of Japanese who were collected in front of a building -from which the contents were being dragged hastily. - -"What is it?" asked Komoru of one of the men. - -"Hardware store," replied the other; "we've rifled all of them for -the weapons and explosives." - -"Where are all the people?" asked Ethel. "The Americans--are they -killed or captured?" - -"They are at home in their houses," answered the man, who seemed -well posted. "I was with the first squad to arrive. We captured the -policemen and then took the telephone switchboard. Japanese -operators are in there now. They have called up every one in town -and explained the situation, and advised the people to stay indoors, -telling them that every house would be burned from which people -emerged or shots were fired. The operators are working on the rural -numbers yet. We hold the telegraph also, and are sending out -exaggerated reports of the size of the Japanese invasion." - - * * * - -A man wearing a blue sash came hurrying up. He stopped before the -group at the hardware store and gestured for silence. - -"The town is well in hand," he said, "and only those of you who are -detailed here as guards need remain longer; the others will get back -to their planes and await the rise of their designated leaders for -the flights of the day. - -"Come," said Komoru to his companion. But Ethel did not move. Her -mind was racked with perplexity. Here she was in a city of her own -people. Why should she continue to accompany this young Japanese -whom, despite his gentlemanly conduct, she instinctively feared? Yet -what else could she do? She was dressed in the peculiar attire of -the invaders, and would certainly have trouble in convincing an -American of her identity. - -[Illustration: As they passed near other planes, Ethel noted that in -many cases the women were driving.] - -"I must ask you to hurry," said Komoru, as the others moved off. -With an effort Ethel gathered her wavering emotions in hand and went -with him. If she must go, she reasoned it were well not to arouse -Komoru's suspicion of her loyalty. - -A few minutes later they were again in the air, following the lead -of a plane with bright red wings--the flag-ship, as it were, of the -group. - -In a half hour the expedition was approaching Houston. Coming over -the city, the leader circled high and waited until his followers -were better massed. - -"Are we going to attack the town?" inquired Ethel, as Komoru asked -her for the water-bottle. - -"Oh, no," he replied, "nothing of the sort; we are simply bluffing. -There are a number of expeditions going out to-day. We must make the -appearance of a great invasion." - -"How many planes are there all told?" - -Komoru smiled. "Not so many," he said. - -"But how many?" persisted Ethel. - -"Fifteen thousand, maybe," Komoru replied. - -"To invade a country with nearly two hundred million inhabitants! We -will surely all be killed." - -Komoru smiled. - -"By sheer force of numbers," explained Ethel. - -"Wait and see," replied her enigmatical companion. - -For hours the little aerial squadron sailed through the balmy air of -Texas. They passed over Austin and Waco and Fort Worth and Dallas. -They turned eastward and passed over Texarkana, and thence south to -impress the people of Shreveport. - -The excitement evinced in the towns increased as the news of their -flight was wired ahead. They were frequently shot at by groups of -excited citizens or occasional companies of militia, but at the -height and speed at which they were flying the bullets went wide. -One plane was lost. Something must have snapped. It doubled up and -went tumbling downward like a wounded pigeon. - -The sun was dropping toward the western horizon. The invaders had -been flying for ten hours. They had been without food or sleep for -thirty-six hours. Save for the brief relaxation of the morning, -Komoru had not taken his hands from the steering wheel, nor his foot -from the engine control since the previous sunset in the Bay of -Tehauntepec. - -[Illustration: The two women of Aryan blood worked together in the -cotton field side by side with the Orientals.] - -As they passed near other planes, Ethel noted that in many cases the -women were driving. Notwithstanding her dislike for him, the girl -found herself wishing that she could relieve Komoru. - -She pondered over his "wait and see" and began to discern a new -possibility in an invasion of thirty thousand Japanese. She tried to -imagine one of the society favorites of her Chicago girlhood sitting -in front of her driving that plane. She remembered distinctly that -aeroplane racing was a part of the diversion of such men and that -five or six hours of driving was considered quite a feat. - -The more she considered the man before her, the more she marvelled -at his powers. She confessed he interested her; she wondered why she -disliked him. The only answer that seemed acceptable was that he was -"not her kind." - -Towards dusk, they hove in sight of the derricks of the Beaumont oil -region. The leader with the red plane descended in a large meadow. -Komoru was well to the front and brought his plane to earth a few -meters from the red wings. The man in the flag plane who had that -day led them over a thousand miles and a score of cities got out and -stretched himself. With an exclamation of joyful surprise, Ethel -recognized that he was Professor Oshima. - -The Japanese camped where they were for the night. The wings of the -planes were guyed to the ground with cordage and little steel -stakes. Beneath such improvised tents the tired aerial cavalrymen -rolled themselves in their sleeping blankets and for twelve hours -the camp was as quiet as a graveyard. - -That day had been a great day in history; it was the first -consequential aerial invasion that the world had ever known. While -the arrivals of the morning had been circling in fear-inspiring -flights above the neighboring states, the later starters from the -Japanese squadron had continued to arrive in the oil regions. Like -migrating birds, they settled down over the rich fields and grazing -lands of that wonderful strip of flat, black-soiled prairie that -stretches westward from the south center of Louisiana until it -emerges into the great semi-arid cattle plains of southern Texas. - -The region, though one of the richest in the United States, was but -sparsely settled. Save for the few thousand white laborers who were -supported by the oil industry, the whole resident population were -negroes who were worked under imported white foremen in the rice and -truck lands of the region. - -The negroes were panic stricken by the Japanese invasion and made -practically no resistance. In two or three days, the country for a -forty-mile radius around Beaumont was cleared of Americans and -practically the entire oil region of Texas with its vast storage -tanks at Port Arthur on the Sabine River, were in the hands of the -invaders. - -There were not ten regiments of American soldiers within five -hundred miles. The great mass of the American army had been rushed -weeks before to southern California, and the remnant left in the -Gulf region had more recently been hastened to Panama. In fact, the -American squadron had steamed into Colon on the very morning the -Japanese alighted on Texas soil. - -On the second morning of their arrival, Japanese officials circling -above the captured region, roughly allotted the land to Captains -under whose leadership were a hundred planes each. The captains then -assigned each couple places to stake their plane, which were located -a hundred meters apart, allowing to each about two and a half acres -of land. - -Professor Oshima and Komoru, as soil chemists, were constantly on -the go making studies of the land and advising with the other -experts as to the crops to plant, and the methods of tillage for the -various locations. - -In the cotton lands, where Ethel and her associates were located, -the soil was immediately put to a fuller use. The cotton plants were -thinned and pruned and between the rows quick growing vegetables -were planted. Elsewhere the great pastures were broken up with -captured kerosene-driven gang plows and by dint of hard labor the -sod was quickly reduced to a fit state for intensive cultivation. - -The outside work of the professor and his secretary threw Ethel -altogether in the company of Madame Oshima. For this fact she was -very grateful, as her aversion to Komoru, to whom she was nominally -bound, grew more and more a source of worry and fear. So the two -women of Aryan blood worked together in the cotton field side by -side with the Orientals--worked and waited and wondered what was -awing in the surrounding world. - -The gasoline wagons came around and refilled the fuel tanks of the -planes. Mechanics inspected the engines carefully and replaced -defective parts. The rice cakes and soyu brought from Japan, had -been replaced by a diet of wheat and maize products and fresh fruits -and vegetables taken from the captured stores and gardens. Such -captured foods, however, had all been inspected by the dieteticians, -and those of doubtful wholesomeness destroyed or placed under lock -and key to be used only as a last resort. - -Thus weeks passed. The green things of Japanese planting had poked -their tender shoots through the black American soil. There had been -no fighting except in few cases, where a company of foolhardy -militia or a local posse had tried to attach the Japanese outposts. -American aeroplanes had wisely staid away. - -But the fight was yet to come. The Federal Government had recalled -its ships from Panama and was bringing back the soldiers from -California. On the great flat prairie between Galveston and Houston, -a mighty military camp was being established. Aeroplane sheds were -erected and repair shops built. Long lines of army tents were -pitched in close proximity. Army canteens were established that the -thirsty soldiers might get pure liquor and good tobacco and a few -rods away--over the line--other grog shops were opened wherein were -sold similar goods not so guaranteed. Gambling sharks arrived and -set up shell games and bedraggled prostitutes--outcasts from urban -centers of debauchery---came and camped nearby and made night -hideous with their obscene revelry. - -So the American soldier prepared for battle against the enemy who, -fifty miles away, slept undisturbed in the midst of gardens beneath -the wings of their aeroplanes. - -Never since Roman phalanx moved against the hordes of disorganized -barbarians had such extremes of method in warfare been pitted -against each other. Indeed it is doubtful if the invasion of the -Japanese should be called war at all. They were not blood-thirsty. -In fact, the Japanese invaders had sent word to the American -Government asserting their peaceful intentions if they were -unmolested, though threatening dire vengeance by firing cities and -poisoning water supplies if they were attacked. - -Madame Oshima shook her head. "Such talk is only pretense," she -said, "the Japanese intend to live in America and would never so -embitter the people--and it will not be necessary." - -Ethel was in doubt. She pictured the Japanese planes flying above -the unprotected inland cities dropping conflagration bombs upon -shingled roof or casks of prussic acid into open reservoirs. She -wished she were out of it all. She wanted to escape and yet she knew -not how. - -The Americans made no hasty attacks. They feared the threats of the -Japanese and awaited the gathering of many hundred thousand -soldiers. At the end of four weeks the American army was spread in a -giant semi-circle surrounding the Japanese encampment from coast to -coast. Along the Gulf Coast was also a line of American battleships, -so that the Japanese encampment was entirely surrounded with an -almost continuous line of aeroplane destroying guns. - -All preparations were at last complete and with cavalry beneath and -aeroplanes above, the American strategists planned a dash across the -Japanese territory with the belief that the outlying lines of -artillery would bring to earth those that succeeded in getting into -the air. - - * * * - -One evening at the hour of twilight, messengers passed rapidly among -the Japanese distributing maps and orders to prepare for flight. - -Late that night, their possessions made ready for flight, Komoru and -Ethel sat with Professor and Madame Oshima beneath the latter's -plane. - -"Our scouts have come to the conclusion," said Oshima, "that a -cavalry attack is to be expected in the early morning. So our plan -is for a signal plane to rise at two o'clock directly over the -center of our territory. It will carry a bright yellow light. -Beginning with the outlying groups our forces are to fly toward the -light, rising as they go. Attaining an altitude of two miles they -are thence to fly due north as our maps show. We will suffer some -loss, but two miles high and at night I guess American gunners will -not inflict great damage." - -Ethel shuddered. - -"Do you think the American aviators will follow us?" asked Komoru. - -"That depends," replied the older man, "upon the reception we give -them; we have them outnumbered." - -"They carry men gunners," said Madame Oshima. - -"So," said the Professor, "but shooting from an aeroplane depends -not so much upon the gunner as upon the steersman. Their planes -wabble, the metal frame work is too stiff, it doesn't yield to the -air pressure." - -Along such lines the conversation continued for an hour or so. -Neither the men nor Madame Oshima seemed the least bit excited over -the prospects; but Ethel, striving to keep up external appearances, -was inwardly torn with warring emotions. - -Making an excuse of wishing to look for something among her luggage, -the girl finally escaped and walked quickly toward the other plane. -But instead of stopping, she passed by and continued down between -the rows of cotton, avoiding as much as possible the lights that -dotted the field about her. - -"Oh, God!" she repeated under her breath; "Oh, God! I can't go! I -won't go!" - -For some time she walked on briskly trying to calm her feverish mind -and reason out a sane course of procedure. - -She was passing thus where the lights of two planes glowed fifty -meters at either side, when she stumbled heavily over some dark -object between the cotton rows. She turned to see what it was; and, -bending forward, discerned in the starlight the body of a man. She -started to run; then, fearing pursuit the more, checked her speed. -As she did so some one grasped her arm and a heavy hand was clapped -over her mouth. - -"Keep quiet," commanded her captor hoarsely. In another instant he -had bent her back over his knee and thrown her--or rather dropped -her for she did not resist--upon the soft earth beneath. - -"If you make a sound, I'll have to shoot," he said, resting a heavy -knee upon her chest and clasping her slender wrist in a vise-like -grip of a single hand. - -The girl breathed heavily. - -The man reached toward his hip pocket and drawing forth a bright -metallic object held it close to her face. Her breath stopped short. -Then a flood of light struck her full in the eyes, as her captor -pressed the button on his flash lamp. - -"God! a woman!" the man gasped. The exclamation and voice were -clearly not Japanese. - -Ethel felt the grip loosen from her wrists and the weight shift from -her chest. - -"You're no Japanese!" he said under his breath, at the same time -letting the glowing flash lamp fall from his hand. - -Presently Ethel raised her head and reached for the lamp where it -lay wasting its rays against the black soil. She now turned the glow -on the other and saw kneeling beside her a young man in American -clothes. He was hatless and coatless and his soft gray shirt was -torn and mud bespattered. A massive head of uncombed hair crowned a -handsome forehead, but the face beneath was marred by a stubby -growth of beard. - -"Who are you?" whispered Ethel finding her voice. - -"Put out the light," he commanded, reaching forward to take it from -her. - -"Who are you?" he asked reversing the query as they were again in -darkness. - -"I'm a girl," said Ethel. - -The man laughed softly. - -"I'm not," he said. - -Ethel drew herself into a sitting posture. "Which side of this war -are you on?" she asked. - -The man was afraid to commit himself--then a happy thought struck -him. "The same side that you are," he answered diplomatically. - -It was Ethel's turn to smile. - -"You are an American?" she ventured at length. - -"Yes," he said. "So are you?" - -"Yes." - -"Then why are you wearing Japanese clothes?" - -"Because--" she said hesitatingly, "I haven't any others." - -For some minutes he said nothing. - -"Are you going to give the alarm of my presence?" he asked at -length. - -"No." - -"Then I'll go," he said. - -Rising from his knees, but still stooping, he made off rapidly down -the cotton row. - -Ethel breathed deeply. Confused thoughts flashed through her mind. -She would not return to go with Komoru; in her Japanese garb she -feared the early morning sweep of American cavalry; but to the man -who had just left her, why could she not explain? - -Without further debate, she arose, and at top speed ran after the -retreating figure. - - - - - -The next instalment of this absorbing tale will -appear in the September issue of PHYSICAL CULTURE. -It tells of how the Japanese attempt to obtain -control of the United States through scientific -measures rather than barbarous warfare, and is -wonderfully interesting and readable. Don't miss -it. - - - -PART THREE. - - -In the Clutch of the War-God - -THE TALE OF THE ORIENT'S INVASION OF THE OCCIDENT, AS CHRONICLED IN -THE HUMANICULTURE SOCIETY'S "NOTES ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY" - -By Milo Hastings - -SYNOPSIS: In the year of 1958, Ethel Calvert, a -daughter of an American grain-merchant, residing -in Japan, because of her father's death in an -anti-foreign riot, is forced to take refuge, with -Madame Oshima, the French wife of a Japanese -scientist. She becomes accustomed to the land and -mode of living followed by the Japanese, and is -finally persuaded to adopt the costume of the land -of her exile. War is declared between Japan and -the United States, and Professor Oshima, and -Komoru, his Secretary, together with Madame Oshima -and Ethel Calvert, sail for the United States in a -Japanese war vessel. When near the Pacific Coast, -the many men and women who have been passengers on -the vessel, leave the ship by means of aeroplanes, -and sail eastwardly toward Texas, where they -establish plantations and conduct a desultory -warfare by aeroplanes with United States troops. -While working in the fields Ethel discovers a -young American in concealment. He warns her to -keep silent, and immediately runs away. - - - -In a few minutes Ethel had caught up with the man who, more -cautiously, ran before her. Checking her speed, she followed -silently. - -For a half-mile she pursued him thus. He came to the end of the -field and dodged into the thicket of bushes that lined the fence -row. He moved more slowly now, and she followed by sound rather than -by sight. At length they came to where a brook ran at right angles -to the fence row. The man stopped and crawled under the barbed-wire -fence and came out on the turnpike that ran alongside. - -Ethel, peering out from the bushes, saw him walk boldly forward and -stand upon the end of the stone culvert that conducted the brook -beneath the roadway. For a moment only he remained so, and then -clambered quickly down at the end of the arch and disappeared in the -darkness beneath. She heard a foot splash in the water, and then all -was quiet save the gurgle of the stream. - -Climbing over the fence, she top ran forward upon the culvert. She -listened and looked toward either end, resolved to call to him if he -emerged. - -As she stood waiting she saw the yellow signal light rise in spirals -higher and higher and then circle slowly in one location. A few -minutes later the dim tail lights of the planes came up out of the -horizon and flew towards the signal light. - -After a half-hour of waiting, she boldly resolved to enter the -hiding place of the man she had followed. - -Cautiously feeling her way, she clambered down over the end of the -culvert and peered into its black archway. - -At first, dimly and then with brighter flash, she saw a light -within. Creeping slowly forward, wading in the stream and stumbling -over rough blocks of stone, she made toward the light. Midway the -passage, the side wall of the culvert had fallen or been torn down -and there in a little damp clay nook, sitting hunched upon a rock -was the silhouette of the unshaven man. - -Beyond him glowed the dim light and by its faint rays he was -hurriedly writing in a note book. - -With a start he became aware of her presence, and turned the -flash-light upon her. - -"I followed you," she stammered. "I want to explain. I'm an American -girl captive among the Japanese." - -He stared at her quizzically in the dim light. - -"I ran from you," he said, "because I was afraid to trust you--there -are a number of Europeans among the Japanese forces. I couldn't know -that you wouldn't have given the alarm, and for one man to run from -fifty thousand isn't cowardice; it's common sense--even bravery, -perhaps, when there's a cause at stake." - -"I understand," replied the girl. - -"Won't you be seated?" he said, arising and offering her his place -on the rock. She accepted, and he asked her for more of her story. - -In reply she told him whom she was and related as briefly as she -could the incidents of her life that accounted for her peculiar -predicament. - -"I suppose I owe you something of an explanation, too;" he said, -when she had finished. "My name is Winslow--Stanley Winslow; I am ---or at least was---the editor of the _Regenerationist_. Do you know -what that is?" - -Ethel confessed, that she did not. - -"Perhaps I flatter myself, but then I suppose you have had no chance -to keep up on American affairs." - -Just then a crash, followed by a whirring, clattering noise broke in -above the sound of the man's voice and the gurgle of the brook -running through their hiding-place. - -"What's that?" Winslow exclaimed, starting towards the end of the culvert. - -[Illustration: She was washing her woven grass sandals by rubbing -the soles together in the stream.] - -Ethel followed him. Before they reached the open the trees in front -of them were lit up by the lurid light of a fire. Beside the road a -hundred yards away was the crumpled mass of a metallic aeroplane. -The gasolene tank had burst open and was blazing furiously. - -"Americans," said Winslow; "let's see if the crew are dead." - -The gasolene had largely spent itself by the time they reached the -plane. - -Poking about in the crumbled debris, they found the driver impaled -upon a lever that protruded from his back. - -"I wonder what grounded her," mused Winslow, as he inspected the -dead man with his flash-lamp. "Oh! here we are! Good shooting that," -he added, pointing with his lamp to a soggy hole in the side of the -man's head. - -"I guess they're at it," he said, pressing out his light and turning -his eyes skyward. - -The woman, speechless, followed his gaze. Across the sky flashed -here and there brilliant beams of search-lights, but far more -numerous were the swiftly moving star-like tail-lights of the -Japanese planes. - -Now and again they heard the crackling of machine guns, occasionally -the burr of a disordered propeller and once the faint call of a -human voice. - -"Look," said Ethel, pointing to the southward. "See that brilliant -yellow light. It's the Japanese signal plane; they are all to fly in -towards it, and then, soaring high will escape over the American -lines." - -"The lines are a joke," returned Winslow. "It's plane against plane. -And the Japs will get the best of it; or at least they'll get away, -which is all they want. They are going to Dakota, where five train -loads of gasolene will be setting on a siding waiting to be -captured. We printed the story ten days ago, though the -administration papers hooted at the idea." - -As they walked back toward the culvert, Ethel stumbled over -something in the roadway. She asked for the light, and discovered to -her horror that she was standing in the midst of the remnants of a -man who had been spattered over the hard macadam of the turnpike. - -"Ugh! take me away," she shuddered, averting her eyes and running -toward the stream, - -"The gunner fell out of the plane when she lurched, I guess," -commented Winslow to himself, examining the shreds of clothing -attached to the mangled remains beneath him. - -For some reason Winslow did not immediately follow the girl but went -back and looked over the wrecked plane again. - -He removed the magazine pistol from the impaled man's pocket and -searched about in the locker until he found a supply of cartridges. - -The sky was beginning to brighten from approaching dawn now, and the -searchlight flashes were less brilliant. Winslow stood gazing upward -until the forms of the lower flying planes became visible. Suddenly -he saw a disabled plane come somersaulting out of the air and fall -into a field quarter of a mile away. Evidently there were explosives -aboard, for a shower of flame, smoke and splinters arose where she -fell. - -The onlooking man hopped over the fence and ran toward the spot. -There was little to be seen--a mere ragged hole in the sod. As he -unconcernedly walked back he passed at intervals a propeller blade -sticking upright in the soil, a broken can of rice cakes and a -woman's hand. - -The dawn had now so far progressed that the observer could see some -order in the movement of the air craft. He studied with fascination -the last of the Japanese planes as they circled up toward their -aerial guide-post and moved thence in a steady stream to the -northward. - -The American planes which had been harassing and firing on the -Japanese as they circled for altitude, now turned and closed in on -the rear of the enemy and the fighting was fast and furious. Plane -after plane tumbled sickeningly out of the sky. But for Winslow the -sight lasted only a few minutes, for the combatants were flying at -full speed and soon became mere flitting insects against the gray -light of the morning sky. - -Striding down the roadway past the mangled body of the American -gunner, Winslow reached the culvert. - -Ethel Calvert was sitting on a flat stone at the edge of the water. -She held her woven grass sandals in her hands and was washing them -by rubbing the soles together in the stream. - -As Winslow looked down at her in silence, the girl looked up and -eyed him curiously. Neither spoke. The man stooped and washed his -hands in the brook and then stepping up-stream a few paces he drank -from the rivulet. - -Returning he regarded the girl. She had placed her sandals beyond -her on the grassy bank and sat with her bare feet in the shallow -stream. Her head, buried in her arms, rested upon her knees. The -slender shoulders now shook convulsively and the sound of a sob -escaped her. In the calmness of his cynicism, the man sat down on -the rock and placed a strong arm around the trembling woman. - -[Illustration: In another moment, he turned in a gap through the -fence and rode down upon the fleeing woman.] - -"I know," he said, "it's a dirty damned mess, but we didn't start -it." - -After a time the girl raised her head. "I know we didn't start it," -she said; "but isn't there something we can do to stop it?" - -"Well," he replied slowly, "I rather hope to have a hand in stopping -it, and perhaps you can help." - -"How?" - -"Surely you can do as much in stopping it as one of those poor -devils that get smashed does in keeping it going," he went on. - -"How?" she repeated. - -"Well, that's quite a long story," he replied; "if you don't already -know." - -"I told you who I was." - -"Yes." - -"Well, the Regenerationists, along with many other sincere men and -women in this country tried to prevent this war and are trying to -get it peaceably settled now. The Japs don't want to die. They want -a chance to live. We've got a lot of vainglorious, debauched, -professional soldiery that wanted to fight something, and now -they're getting their fill. In the first place, there is no need of -war and in the second place, when there is war, the same stamina -that will make efficient humans for the ordinary walks of life will -make good soldiers. But money talks louder than reason. The ruling -powers in American government are a crew of beer-bloated politicians -who are in the pay of a cabal of wine-soaked plutocrats, and the -American people under such administration have become a race of -mental and physical degenerates. The Japs knew this or they would -never have invaded the country." - -"What are you going to do about it? And what are you doing here now -within the Japanese lines?" asked Ethel when her companion paused. - -"Oh, I am acting as my own war correspondent," he replied, smiling a -little. - -"_Pat-a-pat, pat-a-pat_"--Winslow jumped up excitedly and clambered -to the top of the embankment. - -Ethel noting his alarm, slipped her feet into her sandals and rose -to follow him. - -"Quick," he exclaimed, hurrying down the bank again. "It's American -cavalry." - -"But let us go meet them," said the girl. - -"No, never," replied Winslow, taking her by the arm and hurrying her -into the culvert. "You don't understand. As for you in kimo, your -reception would be anything but pleasant; and as for me, I'm an -outlaw with a price on my head." - -Reaching the chink where the rocks had fallen out of the culvert -wall, Winslow squeezed into it and pulled the girl down beside him. -Carefully he crowded her feet and his own back so that their -presence could not be detected from the end of the culvert. - -"I'm afraid we left tracks on the bank, but we can at least die -game," he said, pulling his magazine pistol from his belt and -handing it to the girl, while he drew from his hip pocket the weapon -he had taken from the dead aviator. - -"I hate these things," he said, "but when a man is in a corner and -no chance to run, I suppose he's justified in using a cowardly -fighting machine." - -They heard clearly now the hoof beats on the roadway above. -Presently an officer rode his horse down to the stream at the head -of the culvert. "Anything under there?" called a voice from above. - -"Nothing doing," replied the other, peering beneath the archway. - -"You're a fool sitting there like that," called a third voice. -"Company C lost two men back there from a wounded Jap under a -bridge." - -The horseman urged his beast up the bank and the troop passed on. - -For some hours the man and the girl remained in the culvert; -meanwhile Winslow explained the Regenerationist movement, which was -not as his enemies interpreted, a traitorous party favoring the -Japanese, but only a group of thinkers who advocated principles not -unlike those which had made the Japanese such a superior race either -at peace or at war. - -As she listened, it seemed to Ethel as if her own dream had come -true, for here indeed was a man of her own blood with stamina of -physique and mental and moral courage, who professed and practiced -all she had found that was good among the people of her enforced -adoption and in addition much that, to her with her racial prejudice -in his favor, seemed even better than the ways of Japanese. - -In reply to her questions as to the cause of his outlawry, Winslow -explained that he and other leaders of his party had long been at -swords' points with the conservatives who were in power and that the -administration, taking advantage of the martial frenzy of the war, -were persecuting the Regenerationists as supposed traitors. - - * * * - -As the sun indicated mid-forenoon the dishevelled editor of the -Regenerationist and his newly found follower sauntered forth and -took to the turnpike. - -"We may as well be on the road," he argued. "The sooner the American -people get the inside facts of this affair the sooner they will -decide to stop it, and it's forty-five miles to the nearest place -where I can get in touch with my people." - -Bareheaded, through the hot sun, they travelled rapidly along the -turnpike, keeping a sharp lookout for occasional parties of cavalry -and hiding in the fields until they passed. Sometimes they talked of -the contrasted ways of life in Japan and in America, and again -Winslow wrote hurriedly in his note-book as he walked. - -About three o'clock in the afternoon they stopped in the shade where -a rivulet fell over a small cataract. - -"Aren't you hungry?" asked Ethel, after they had drunk from the -brook. - -"I don't know. I hadn't thought of it particularly," replied her -companion. "Let's see, the last time I ate was in a farmhouse north -of Houston. That was eight days ago. When have you last eaten?" - -"Yesterday morning," replied the girl. - -"Then you are probably hungrier than I am." - -With their conversation and the murmur of the waterfall they had -failed to detect the approach of two cavalry officers, who, walking -their tired mounts, had come up unheeded. - -"Hey! look at the beauty in breeches!" called one of the approaching -men. - -[Illustration: He rolled a bundle of "Regenerationists" on the wing -of the aeroplane below.] - -"Her for mine," returned the other. - -"I saw it first--hie!" returned the first, drawing rein. - -"Give it to me, you hog; you've got one!" - -"All right, all right--go take it--maybe the bum will object," -laughed the first, as the unshaven Winslow advanced in front of the -girl. - -"Run quick," called Winslow to Ethel. "They're too drunk to shoot -straight." - -The turnpike was inclosed by a high, woven-wire fence, and the girl -obeying turned down the road. Her would-be claimant put spurs to his -horse and dashed after her, leaving Winslow covering the rear -horseman with his magazine pistol. - -"Well," said the drunken officer weakly, "I ain't doing nothing." - -"Then ride down the road the other way as fast as you can go." - -The officer obeyed. - -For a moment Winslow watched him and then turned to see Ethel -climbing over the woven-wire fence with the soldier trying to urge -his horse up the embankment to reach her. - -Winslow started to run to the girl's rescue, but no sooner had he -turned than a bullet sang past his ear. Wheeling about he saw the -other cavalryman riding toward him firing as he came. - -With lewd brutality calling for vengeance in one direction and a man -firing at his back from the other, Winslow's aversion to bloodshed -became nil; and, aiming cool, he began firing at the approaching -officer. - -It must have been the horse that got the bullet, for with the third -shot mount and rider somersaulted upon the macadam. - -Without compunction, Winslow turned and sprinted down the roadway. -He saw Ethel dashing across the field, hurdling the cotton rows. The -officer was racing down the road, seeming away from her, but in -another moment he turned through a gap in the fence and rode down -upon the fleeing woman. - -The athletic Winslow vaulted the six-foot fence with an easy spring, -and tore madly through the obstructing vegetation. - -The rider overtaking the woman, tried to hold her, first by the arm, -and failing in that, he grabbed her by the hair. Winslow wondered -why she did not shoot him, and then he recalled that he was carrying -both weapons. - -In another instant he was up with them and had dragged the man from -his horse and flung him to the ground. The soldier kicked and swore, -but half drunk, his resistance was of small consequence to his -well-trained adversary. - -"Here," called Winslow to the girl, who had tumbled down in a heap -more from fright than physical exhaustion, "come and get my knife -and cut the rein from the horse's bridle." - -Thus equipped, the two strapped their captive's hands and one foot -together behind him. - -"There now," said Winslow, as he relieved the officer of his weapon. -"Hop back to the bridge and look after your comrade. He fell on the -turnpike a while ago and I'm afraid he hurt his head. We'll have to -be going." - -"Shall we take the horse?" asked Ethel. - -"No," replied her companion, beginning to throw clods at the animal, -"we'll simply run him away. As for us, we are safer on foot, and -will in the long run make better time." - -"You are not tired, are you?" he asked, as they turned into the -roadway again. - -"No," she replied, "only a bit tired and weak from my scare. How far -have we come?" - -"Fifteen miles, perhaps; I really hardly know; we've been -interrupted so much." - -They made a long detour through the fields to avoid a group of -buildings. Striking the road again, they soon came upon a slight -rise of land that stood well above the level of the surrounding -country. - -"Are we not rather conspicuous here?" asked the girl. - -"Well, rather," admitted her companion, pausing to look around; "but -I guess we can see as far as we can be seen." - -"Look! look!" called Ethel excitedly, jerking her companion's arm -and pointing to the south, where the flat horizon was broken by the -derricks and tanks of the oil fields. - -At first Winslow saw nothing, and then shading his eyes he sighted -what looked like a great bevy of birds flying just above the -horizon. - -Larger and larger grew the specks against the sky. - -"They will be over us in fifteen minutes," said Winslow; "let's get -up in that oak over there, where we can see without being seen." - -Safely hidden by the enveloping foliage, the man and the girl now -watched the approach of the planes. As they came over the oil region -the planes began swooping near the ground and then rapidly rising -again. - -"Its Japanese after the American cavalry, I guess," said Winslow. In -a few minutes black smoke belched forth at numerous points from the -petroleum works. - -After a time a cloud of dust arose from a great meadow that spread -for several miles to the north of the oil wells. A group of -aeroplanes hovered closely above the dust cloud and kept up that -periodical swooping towards the earth. - -"It's stampeding cavalry," said the sharp-eyed Ethel, "and the -airmen are dropping bombs on them." - -The cloud of dust came nearer and nearer until they could see the -swift fall of the deadly missiles from the swooping planes and the -havoc wrought in the straggling ranks by the showers of pellets from -the shrapnel exploding above their heads. - -When the foremost of the cavalry troop were perhaps a quarter of a -mile from the observers, a commanding officer, who was riding well -in the lead, wheeled his horse, threw away his jacket, tore off his -white shirt and waived it frantically above his head. - -An answering truce flag soon appeared from a plane above and the -jaded horsemen, riding up, drew rein and waited. - -The truce plane now swooped low and dropped a message fastened to a -white cloth. A soldier caught it and brought it to the officer, who -signalled assent. - -Orders were called along the line, and the men filed by and piled -their weapons in an inglorious heap. - -After this most of the lazy circling planes rose and made off to the -left, while a few assigned to guard duty circled above the -retreating cavalry, as they moved off slowly in the opposite -direction. - -Two belated members of the troop, who had lost their horses, flung -themselves down to rest for a moment in the lengthening shadow of -the oak tree. - -"Oh Gawd!" said one, as he panted and mopped his forehead. "Oh Gawd! -I was scared! That damned shrapnel bursting right over us and no -chance to fight back or get away. It ain't no fair fighting like -that--you can't get at 'em." - -"They've tricked us, they have," returned his companion. "Our own -airmen's up in Nebraska chasing the Japs that gave us the slip this -morning, and here these damn hawks come swooping in. I reckon it's -reinforcements from Japan. The transports that brought the first -bunch must have been back and got another load, and this time it -seems to be regular soldiers--here to kill--the others were just -decoys." - -"No, they ain't exactly decoys; they're here to stay and raise -families, and damned if that ain't what I'm going to do, if I ever -get out of this. Gawd! our loss must be something awful, and they're -at it yet. Look! see 'em over there by Beaumont like a flock of -crows. The bunch that got us was just a few of them." - -For a time both soldiers eyed the distant fighting. - -"When I get out of this," continued the first speaker; "when I get -out, I'm going to join the Regenerationists." - -"What's that; peace cranks?" - -"Yep; but it's more than that, it's health cranks and temperance -cranks, and moral cranks, and socialist cranks, and every other kind -of crank that believes in people being decent and living -happy--health, quiet lives, instead of fighting and robbing -and--boozing and abusing themselves and each other to death." - -"Oh, Hell! don't preach just because you're scared," said the other, -getting up. - -"Call it preaching if you like, but believe me, I've been getting -letters from the folks back home, and my people ain't such poor -stuff either, if I did join the army, and I want to tell you that -such preaching is getting damn popular lately. This fall's election, -you know, and the way we've been done up here to-day, will have a -lot to do with the outcome." - -"We'd better move," said the other, looking up. "That Jap up there -thinks we're going back after our guns." - - * * * - -With the oil regions again in the hands of the vigilant Japanese, -Winslow and Ethel found escape more perilous and difficult. But on -the third night they succeeded in getting through the lines and -reaching Winslow's confederates, who were awaiting him near St. -Charles, La. From hence they travelled by aeroplane to a secluded -railroadless valley in the heart of the Ozarks. - -It was here that the secret printing plant of the _Regenerationist_ -had been established. Ethel knew nothing of printing or journalism, -but a place was found for her in the department of circulation. - -While news could be received via wireless, the paper and supplies, -as well as the men who went to and fro from the secret printing -plant of the outlawed publication, had to be transported by plane. -Aviators with sufficient skill and daring for the task were hard to -find. Already at home in the air, it was only a few days until Ethel -was driving a plane on a paper route. - -The seven hundred miles to Denver she covered one night, returning -the next. She started out with half a ton of papers--seventy-two -thousand copies--which in suitable bundles were dropped by the boy -in the center of the triangular signal fires which local agents -built at night in open fields. - -Once she lost her load by a fall in the Kansas River, and once she -ran out of fuel and held up a rich country house at the point of a -pistol and demanded the supply of automobile gasoline. - -Worst of all, she was chased one night by a government secret -service plane. Despairing of outflying them, she got and held the -position directly above their craft, while the boy rolled a -two-hundred-pound bale of _Regenerationists_ over on the other's -wing and sent the Federal airmen somersaulting into eternity. - -But these stirring times did not last long. With the second Japanese -invasion and the Orientals now established in two widely separated -sections of the country, the authorities at Washington soon acceded -to a truce, and one of the immediate results was abolition of -martial law and re-establishment of a free press. - -Throughout the summer, in the rice lands in the South, and the wheat -lands of the North, the Japanese lived, harmless gardeners of their -newly acquired possessions. But their gasoline tanks were full and -they carried sufficient conflagration bombs to have fired every city -from New Orleans to St. Paul, had the truce been broken by American -treachery. - -The _Regenerationist_, now removed to St. Louis, was again a -full-sized newspaper. The party in power, supported by the -capitalistic and military classes, preached old-fashioned patriotism -and with martial music and flying flags tried to enthuse the people. -But the terror of the American soldiery in the unfair battle of -Beaumont had gone abroad throughout the land. The people feared the -draft for military service--they feared the firing of the -cities--the poisoning of their water supplies and a hundred other -spectres which in the minds of a degenerate and servile city -population the presence of a successful aerial enemy had inspired. - -The reform party of the _Regenerationists_ had by the fortunes of -war achieved a tremendous growth. Their recruits came both from the -better element who had thus been awakened from their lethargy, and -from the cowardly rabble who supported peace because of the terror -in their hearts. - -Gerald Stoddard, Chancellor of the University of Illinois, a big -sound man of clean mind and clean body, was chosen as the radical -presidential candidate, and won with an overwhelming majority. - -His election meant peace between the warring powers, and strong -likelihood of peace in the world for all time to come. It also meant -other things. It meant the complete inversion of the American policy -and the welcoming of science as the servant of mankind's larger -needs and not merely a flunky to the degenerate, luxury-loving few. - -President-elect Stoddard, with masterful hand, began at once the -organization of the new administration. Among the appointees whom he -early announced was that of Stanley Winslow, to the position of -Secretary of Public Health. - -In his telegram of acceptance, Winslow said: - -"In signifying my intention of accepting the position of Secretary -of Public Health in your Cabinet, I wish to say that it will be my -sole purpose to prove myself possessed of the larger patriotism -which would defend our race against retrogression and annihilation, -not by such antiquated and inefficient methods as immigration -restriction or mechanical warfare, but by the improvement of the -race itself." - -And Ethel, too, sent a telegram. It read: - -PROFESSOR AND MADAME OSHIMA, - JAPANESE OCCUPATION, - SOUTH DAKOTA. - -As soon as travel is freely established come and visit us. When are -the children coming over? - - ETHEL CALVERT WINSLOW, - Care the _Regenerationist_. - -St. Louis, Mo. - -But of Komoru she said not a word. She couldn't forget the -unfathomable look in his eyes. At times she even argued with herself -that the poor fellow had loved her, but had feared to express -himself because he believed (as he had stated in his scientific -essays) that inter-racial marriages were uneugenic and hence -immoral. - - - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's In the Clutch of the War-God, by Milo Hastings - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IN THE CLUTCH OF THE WAR-GOD *** - -***** This file should be named 13526.txt or 13526.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - https://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/5/2/13526/ - -Produced by Roger Taft, grandson of the author, and -Jim Tinsley. - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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I can safely promise the reader who -takes up this unique recital of the twentieth -century warfare, that his interest will be -sustained to the very end by the interesting -deductions and the keen insight into the -possibilities of the present trend of -international affairs exhibited by the -author.--Bernarr Macfadden. - - - -"Kindly be prepared to absent yourself at a moment's notice." It was -Goyu speaking, blundering, old fool. He was standing in the doorway -with his kitchen-apron on, and an iron spoon in his hand. - -"What on earth is the matter?" asked Ethel Calvert, tossing aside -her French novel in alarm, for such a lack of deference in Goyu -meant vastly more than appeared upon the surface. - -"I am informed," replied Goyu, gravely, "that there has been an -anti-foreign riot and that many are killed." - -"And father?" gasped Ethel. - -"He was upon the grain boat," said Goyu. - -"But where is he now?" - -"I do not know," returned Goyu, locking nervously over his shoulder. -"But I fear he has not fared well--the boat was dynamited--that's -what started the trouble." - -With a gasp Ethel recalled that an hour before she had heard an -explosion which she had supposed to be blasting. Faint with fear, -she staggered toward a couch and fell forward upon the cushions. - - * * * - -When the girl regained consciousness the house was dark. Slowly she -recalled the event that had culminated the uneventful day. She -wondered if Goyu had been lying or had gone crazy. The darkness was -not reassuring--her father always came home before dark, and his -absence now confirmed her fears. She wondered if the old servant had -deserted her. He was a poor stick anyway; Japanese men who had pride -or character no longer worked as domestics in the households of -foreigners. - -Ethel Calvert was the daughter of an American grain merchant who -represented the interests of the North American Grain Exporters -Association at the seaport of Otaru, in Hokaidi, the North Island of -Japan. Three years before her mother had died of homesickness and a -broken heart--although the Japanese physician had called it -tuberculosis, and had prescribed life in a tent! Had they not -suffered discomforts enough in that barbarous country without adding -insult to injury? - -Ethel was bountifully possessed of the qualities of hothouse beauty. -Her jet black hair hung over the snowy skin of her temples in -striking contrast. Her form was of a delicate slenderness and her -movement easy and graceful with just a little of that languid -listlessness considered as a mark of well-bred femininity. She knew -that she was beautiful according to the standards of her own people -and her isolation from the swirl of the world's social life was to -her gall and wormwood. - -The Calverts had never really "settled" in Japan, but had merely -remained there as homesick Americans indifferent to, or unjustly -prejudiced against the Japanese life about them. Now, in the year -1958, the growing anti-foreign feeling among the Japanese had added -to their isolation. Moreover, the Japanese bore the grain merchant -an especial dislike, for every patriotic Japanese was sore at heart -over the fact that, after a century of modern progress, Japan was -still forced to depend upon foreigners to supplement their food -supply. - -In fact, they had oft heard Professor Oshima grieve over the -statistics of grain importation, as a speculator might mourn his -personal losses in the stock market. - - * * * - -For a time Ethel lay still and listened to the faint sound of voices -from a neighboring porch. Then the growing horror of the situation -came over her with anewed force; if her father was dead, she was not -only alone in the world, but stranded in a foreign and an unfriendly -country; for there were but few Americans left in the city. - -The girl arose and crept nervously into the dining-room. She turned -on the electric light; everything seemed in order. She hurried over -to Goyu's room, and knocked. There was no answer. Then slowly -opening the door, she peered in--the room was empty and disordered. -Plainly the occupant had bundled together his few belongings and -flown. - -Ethel stole back through the silent house and tremblingly took down -the telephone receiver. In vain she called the numbers of the few -American families of the city. Last on the list was the American -Consulate, and this time she received the curt information that the -consul had left the city by aeroplane "with the other foreigners." -The phrase struck terror into her heart. If the European population -had flown in such haste as to overlook her, clearly there was -danger. A great fear grew upon her. Afraid to remain where she was, -she tried to think of ways of escape. She could not steer an -aeroplane even if she were able to obtain one. Otaru was far from -the common ways of international traffic and the ships lying at -anchor in the harbor were freighters, Japanese owned and Japanese -manned. - -Ethel looked at her watch--it was nine-twenty. She tiptoed to her -room. - -An hour later she was in the street dressed in a tailored suit of -American make and carrying in her hand-bag a few trinkets and -valuables she had found in the house. Passing hurriedly through -quiet avenues, she was soon in the open country. The road she -followed was familiar to her, as she had traveled it many times by -auto. - -For hours she walked rapidly on. Her unpracticed muscles grew tired -and her feet jammed forward in high-heeled shoes were blistered and -sore. But fear lent courage and as the first rays of the morning sun -peeked over the hill-tops, the refugee reached the outskirts of the -city of Sapporo. - -Ethel made straightway for the residence of Professor Oshima, the -Soil Chemist of the Imperial Agricultural College of Hokiado--a -Japanese gentleman who had been educated and who had married abroad, -and a close friend of her father's. As she reached the door of the -Professor's bungalow, she pushed the bell, and sank exhausted upon -the stoop. - -Some time afterward she half-dreamed and half realized that she -found herself neatly tucked between white silk sheets and lying on a -floor mattress of a Japanese sleeping-porch. A gentle breeze fanned -her face through the lattice work and low slanting sunbeams sifting -in between the shutters fell in rounded blotches upon the opposite -straw matting wall. For a time she lay musing and again fell asleep. - -When she next awakened, the room was dimly lighted by a little -glowing electric bulb and Madame Oshima was sitting near her. Her -hostess greeted her cordially and offered her water and some fresh -fruit. - -Madame Oshima was fully posted upon the riots and confirmed Ethel's -fears as to the fate of her father. - -[Illustration: "But have I lost my figure?" inquired the lithe -Madame Oshima.] - -"You will be safe here for the present," her hostess assured her. -"Professor Oshima has been called to Tokio; when he returns we will -see what can be done concerning your embarking for America." - -Madame Oshima was of French descent but had fully adopted Japanese -customs and ways of thinking. - -As soon as Ethel was up and about, her hostess suggested that she -exchange her American-made clothing for the Japanese costume of the -time. But Ethel was inclined to rebel. - -"Why," she protested, "if I discarded my corsets I would lose my -figure." - -"But have I lost my figure?" inquired the lithe Madame Oshima, -striking an attitude. - -To this Ethel did not reply, but continued, "And I would look like a -man," for among the Japanese people tight-belted waists and flopping -skirts had long since been replaced by the kimo, a single-piece -garment worn by both sexes and which fitted the entire body with -comfortable snugness. - -"And is a man so ill-looking?" asked her companion, smiling. - -"Why, no, of course not, only he's different. Why, I couldn't wear a -kimo--people would see--my limbs," stammered the properly-bred -American girl. - -"Why, no, they couldn't," replied Madame Oshima. "Not if you keep -your kimo on." - -"But they would see my figure." - -"Well, I thought you just said that was what you were afraid they -wouldn't see." - -"But I don't mean that way--they--they could see the shape of my--my -legs," said Ethel, blushing crimson. - -"Are you ashamed that your body has such vulgar parts?" returned the -older woman. - -"No, of course not," said Ethel, choking back her embarrassment. -"But it's wicked for a girl to let men know such things." - -"Oh, they all know it," replied Madame Oshima, "they learn it in -school." - -At this the highly strung Ethel burst into sobs. - -"There, there now," said her companion, regretting that she had -spoken sarcastically. "I forget that I once had such ideas also. -We'll talk some more about it after while. You are nervous and -worried now and must have more rest." - -The next day Madame Oshima more tactfully approached the subject and -showed her protege that while in Rome it was more modest to do as -the Romans do; and that, moreover, it was necessary for her own good -and theirs that she attract as little attention as possible, and to -those that recognized her Caucasian blood appear, superficially, at -least, as a naturalized citizen of Japan. - -So, amid blushes and tears, protestations and laughter, Ethel -accepted the kimo, or one-piece Japanese garment, and the outer -flowing cloak to be worn on state occasions when freedom of bodily -movement was not required. Her feather-adorned hat was discarded -altogether and her ill-shapen high-heeled boots replaced by airy -slippers of braided fiber. - -Her rather short stature and her hair--which fortunately enough was -black--served to lessen her conspicuousness, especially when dressed -in the fashion followed by Japanese girls; and with the leaving off -of the use of cosmetics and the spending of several hours a day in -the flower garden even her pallid complexion suffered rapid change. - -It was about a fortnight before Professor Oshima returned from -Tokio. Upon his arrival Ethel at once pleaded with him to be sent to -America, but the scientist slowly shook his head. - -"It is too late," he said; "there is going to be a war." - -Thus it happened that Ethel Calvert was retained in the Professor's -family as a sort of English tutor to his children, and introduced as -a relative of his wife, and no one suspected that she was one of the -hated Americans. - - * * * - -The trouble between Japan and the United States dated back to the -early part of the century. It was deep-seated and bitter, and was -not only the culmination of a rivalry between the leading nations of -the great races of mankind, but a rivalry between two great ideas or -policies that grew out in opposite directions from the age of -unprecedented mechanical and scientific progress that marked the -dawn of the twentieth century. - -The pages of history had been turned rapidly in those years. The -United States, long known as the richest country, had also become -the most populous nation of the Caucasian world--and wealth and -population had made her vain. - -But with all her material glory, there was not strength in American -sinews, nor endurance in her lungs, nor vigor in the product of her -loins. Her people were herded together in great cities, where they -slept in gigantic apartment houses, like mud swallows in a sand -bank. They overate of artificial food that was made in great -factories. They over-dressed with tight-fitting unsanitary clothing -made by the sweated labor of the diseased and destitute. They -over-drank of old liquors born of ancient ignorance and of new -concoctions born of prostituted science. They smoked and perfumed -and doped with chemicals and cosmetics--the supposed virtues of -which were blazoned forth on earth and sky day and night. - -The wealth of the United States was enormous, yet it was chiefly in -the hands of the few. The laborers went forth from their rookeries -by subway and monorail, and served their shifts in the mills of -industry. - -In turn, others took their places, and the mills ground night and -day. - -Even the farm lands had been largely taken over by corporate -control. Crops on the plains were planted with power machinery. The -rough lands had all been converted into forests or game preserves -for the rich. Agriculture had been developed as a science, but not -as a husbandry. The forcing system had been generally applied to -plants and animals. Wonder-working nitrogenous fertilizers made at -Niagara and by the wave motors of the coast made all vegetation to -grow with artificial luxury. Corn-fed hogs and the rotund carcasses -of stall-fed cattle were produced on mammoth ranches for the -edification of mankind, and fowl were hatched by the billions in -huge incubators, and the chicks reared and slaughtered with scarcely -a touch of a human hand. And all this was under the control of -concentrated business organization. The old, sturdy, wasteful farmer -class had gone out of existence. - -Only the rich who owned aeroplanes could afford to live in the -country. The poor had been forced to the cities where they could be -sheltered _en masse_, and fed, as it were, by machinery. New York -had a population of twenty-three millions. Manhattan Island had been -extended by filling in the shallows of the bay, until the Battery -reached almost to Staten Island. The aeroplane stations that topped -her skyscrapers stood, many of them, a quarter of a mile from the -ground. - -As the materially greatest nation in the world, the United States -had an enormous national patriotism based on vanity. The larger -patriotism for humanity was only known in the prattle of her -preachers and idealists. America was the land of liberty--and -liberty had come to mean the right to disregard the rights of -others. - -In Japan, too, there had been changes, but Japan had received the -gifts of science in a far different spirit. With her, science had -been made to serve the more ultimate needs of the race, rather than -the insane demand for luxuries. - -The Japanese had applied to the human species the scientific -principles of heredity, nutrition and physical development, which in -America had been confined to plants and animals. The old spirit of -Japanese patriotism had grown into a semi-religious worship of -racial fitness and a moral pride developed which eulogized the -sacrifice of the liberties of the individual to the larger needs of -the people. Legal restrictions of the follies of fashion in dress -and food, the prohibition of alcohol and narcotics, the restriction -of unwise marriages, and the punishments of immorality were -stoically accepted, not as the blue laws of religious fanaticism, -but as requisites of racial progress and a mark of patriotism. - -And while Japan showed no signs of the extravagant wealth seen in -America, she was far from being poor. She had gained little from -centralized and artificial industry, but she had wasted less in -insane competition and riotous luxury. - -But in Japanese life there was one unsolved problem. That was her -food supply. Intensive culture would do wonders and the just -administration of wealth and the physical efficiency of her people -had eliminated the waste of supporting the non-productive, but an -acre is but a small piece of land at most, and Japan had long since -passed the point where the number of her people exceeded the number -of her acres. A quarter of an acre would produce enough grain and -coarse vegetables to keep a man alive, but the Japanese wanted eggs -and fruit and milk for their children; and they wanted cherry trees -and chrysanthemums, lotus ponds and shady gardens with little -waterfalls. - -[Illustration: In the nineteenth month of the war, the emblem of the -Rising Sun was hoisted over Manila.] - -Now if the low birth rate that had resulted when the examinations -for parenthood were first enforced had continued, Japan would not -have been so crowded, but after the first generation of marriage -restriction the percentage of those who reached the legal standard -of fitness was naturally increased. The scientists and officials had -from time to time considered the advisability of increasing the -restrictions--and yet why should they? The Japanese people had -submitted to the prohibition of the marriage of the unfit, but they -loved children; and, with their virile outdoor life, the instinct of -procreation was strong within them. True, the assignable lands in -Japan continued to grow smaller, but what reason was there for -stifling the reproductive instincts of a vigorous people in a great -unused world half populated by a degenerate humanity? - -So Japan was land hungry--not for lands to conquer, as of old, nor -yet for lands to exploit commercially, but for food and soil and -breathing space for her children. - -Among opponents of Japanese racial expansion, the United States was -the greatest offender. Japanese immigration had long since been -forbidden by the United States, and American diplomats had more -recently been instrumental in bringing about an agreement among the -powers of Europe by which all outlets were locked against the -overflowing stream of Asiatic population. - -Indeed, America called Japan the yellow peril; and with her own -prejudices to maintain, her institutions of graft and exploitation -to fatten her luxury-loving lords and her laborers to appease, she -was in mortal terror of the simple efficiency of the Japanese people -who had taken the laws of Nature into their own hands and shaped -human evolution by human reason. - -As Commodore Perry had forced the open door of commerce upon Japan a -century before, so Japan decided to force upon America the -acknowledgment of any human being's right to live in any land on -earth. She had tried first by peaceful means to secure these ends, -but failing here and driven on by the lash of her own necessity, -Japan had come to feel that force alone could break the clannish -resistance of the Anglo-Saxon, who having gone into the four corners -of the earth and forced upon the world his language, commerce and -customs, now refused to receive ideas or citizens in return. - -And thus it came to pass that the West and the East were in the -clutch of the War-God. No one knew just what the war would be like, -for the wars of the last century had been bluffing, bulldozing -affairs concerning trade agreements or Latin-American revolutions. -There had been no great clash of great ideas and great peoples. - -The harbors of the world were filled with huge, floating, -flat-topped battleships, within the capacious interiors of which -were packed the parts of aeroplanes as were the soldiers of the -Grecian army in their wooden horse at Troy, for assembling and -launching them. But the engines of warfare which men had repeatedly -claimed would make war so terrible as to end war, had failed to -fulfill anticipations. The means of defense and the rules of the -game had kept pace with the means of destruction. The flat tops of -the warships, which served as alighting platforms for friendly -planes, were heavily armored against missiles dropped from -unfriendly ones. The explosion of a bomb on top of a plate of steel -is a rather tame affair, and guns sufficient to penetrate armor -plate could not be carried on air-craft. The big guns of -battleships, which had for a time grown bigger and bigger, had now -gone quite out of use, for the coming of the armored top had been -followed by the toad-stool warship, which had a roof like an -inverted saucer, and was provided with water chambers, the opening -of the traps of which caused a sudden sinking of the vessel until -the eave dipped beneath the water level and left exposed only the -sloping roof from which the heaviest shot would glance like a bullet -from the frozen surface of a pond. - -The first two years of war dragged on in the Pacific. American grain -was of course cut off from Japan and the government authorities -ordered the people to plow up their flower gardens and plant food -crops. - -The Americans had too much territory to protect to take the -offensive and their Pacific fleet lay close to Manila, where, with -the help of land aviation forces, they hoped to hold the possession -of the islands, which according to the popular American view was -supposed to be the prize for which the Japanese had gone to war. - -The test of the actual warfare proved several things upon which -mankind had long been in doubt. One of these was that, with all the -expert mechanism that science and invention had supplied, the -personal equation of the man could not be eliminated. Aviation -increased the human element in warfare. To shoot straight requires -calm nerves, but to fly straight requires also agility and -endurance. - -The American aeroplanes were made of steel and aluminum, and when -they hit the water they sank like lead, but the Japanese planes were -made of silk and bamboo, and their engines were built with multiple -compartment air tanks and after a battle the Japanese picked up the -floating engines and placed them, ready to use, in inexpensive new -planes. - - * * * - -In the nineteenth month of the war, Manila surrendered, and the -emblem of the rising sun was hoisted throughout the Philippine -Islands. The remnant of the American fleet retreated across the -Pacific, and the world supposed that the war was over. - -But Japan refused the American proposals of peace, which conceded -them the Philippines, unless the United States be also opened to -universal immigration. And so it was that when Japan, in addition to -accepting the Philippines, demanded the right to settle her cheap -labor in the United States, the American authorities cut short the -peace negotiation and began concentrating troops and battleships -along the Pacific Coast in fear of an invasion of California. - - * * * - -With Ethel Calvert's adoption into Professor Oshima's family there -came a great change in her life. At first, she accepted Japanese -food and Japanese clothes as the old-time prisoner accepted stripes -and bread and water. But her captivity proved less repulsive than -she expected and she was soon confessing to herself that there was -much good in Japanese life. Professor and Madame Oshima were not -talkative on general topics but the books on the shelves of the -Professor's library proved a godsend to the awakening mind of the -young woman. Indeed, after a mental diet of French and English -fiction upon which Ethel had been reared, the works on science and -humaniculture, the dreams of universal brotherhood, the epics of a -race in its conquests of disease and poverty were as meat and drink -to her eager, hungry mind. - -As the war went on, the horror of it all grew upon her. She read -Howki's "America." She didn't believe it all, but she realized that -most of it was true. She wondered why her people were fighting to -keep out the Japanese. She marvelled that the Japanese who had -adopted such lofty ideals of race culture could find the heart to go -to war. She wished she might be free to go to the government -officials at Tokio and Washington to show them the folly of it all. -Surely if the American statesmen understood Japanese ideals and the -superiority of their habits and customs for the production of happy -human beings, they would never have waged war to keep them out of -the States. - - * * * - -"In three days we leave Japan," said Professor Oshima, as he sat -down to dinner one evening in the early part of April, 1960. - -"All?" asked Komoru, the Professor's secretary. - -"We four," replied Oshima, indicating those at the table, "the -children will stay with my mother. I'll need your assistance, and as -for Miss Ethel, she cannot well stay here, so I have had you two -listed. Although it's a little irregular, I am sure it will not be -questioned, for I know more about American soils than any other man -in Japan." - -Ethel glanced apprehensively at Komoru. She had never quite -understood her own attitude toward that taciturn young Japanese whom -she had seen daily for two years without hardly making his -acquaintance. She admired him and yet she feared him. - -Professor Oshima was saying that she had been "listed" with Komoru -for some great journey. What did it mean? What could she do? Again -she looked up at the secretary; but far from seeing any trace of -scheme or plot in his enigmatical countenance, she found him to be -considering the situation with the same equanimity with which he -would have recorded the calcium content of a soil sample. - -As for Professor and Madame Oshima, they seemed equally unruffled -about the proposed journey, and not at all inclined to elucidate the -mystery. Experience had taught the younger woman that when -information was not offered it was unwise to ask questions, so when -the Professor busied himself with much ransacking of his pamphlets -and papers and his wife became equally occupied with overhauling the -family wardrobe and getting the children off to their grandmother's, -Ethel accepted unquestionably the statement that she would be -limited to twenty kilograms of clothing and ten kilograms of other -personal effects, and lent assistance as best she could to the -enterprise in hand. - -On the third day the little party, with their light luggage boarded -a train for Hakodate, at which point they arrived at noon. Hurrying -along the docks among others burdened like themselves, they came to -a great low-lying, turtle-topped warship; and, passing down a -gangway, entered the brilliantly lighted interior. - -The constant flood of new passengers came, not in mixed and motley -groups, as the ordinary crowd of passengers, but by two, male and -female, as the unclean beasts into the ark. And they were all young -in years and athletic in frame--the very cream and flower of the -race. - - -[Illustration: Every few seconds an aeroplane shot into the air and -joined the endless winged line.] - - -Late that evening the vessel steamed out of port, and during the -next two days was joined by a host of other war craft, and the great -squadron moved in orderly procession to the eastward. - -One point, that Ethel soon discovered was that, in addition to being -excellent physical specimens, all the men, and many of the women, -were proficient as aviators. Of these facts life on board bore ample -evidence, for the great fan ventilated gymnasium was the most -conspicuous part of the ship's equipment and here in regular drills -and in free willed disportive exercise those on board kept -themselves from stagnation during the idleness of the voyage. Into -this gymnasium work Ethel entered with great gusto, for there was a -revelation in the discovery of her own physical capabilities that -surprised and fascinated her. - -In the other chief interest of her fellow passengers, Ethel was an -apt pupil, for though woefully ignorant of aviation, she was eager -to learn. She spent many hours in the company of Professor or Madame -Oshima, studying aeroplane construction and operation from the -displayed mechanisms on board. In fact, they found the great roomy -hold of the ship was packed with aeroplane parts. Small gasoline -turbines were stored in crates by the hundreds; also wings and -rudders knocked down and laid flat against each other and still -lower down in the framework of the floating palace were vast stores -of gasoline. - -At the end of two weeks the Japanese squadron was in latitude 34° -north, longitude 125° west, and headed directly for the Los Angeles -district of Southern California--the richest and most densely -populated area of the United States. - -One evening, just at dark, after they had been in sight of the -American aerial scouts all day, the Japanese fleet changed its -course and turned sharply to the southward. Now Panama was six days' -steaming from Los Angeles and less than three days from New Orleans. -So the authorities at Washington ordered all warships and available -soldiers on the Gulf Coast to embark for the Isthmus. - -Meanwhile there was much going on beneath the armor plate of the -Japanese transports, and on the fourth day of their southward -movement the great trap doors were swung down and aeroplane parts -were run out on the tramways, the planes rapidly set up by skilled -workmen, and firmly hooked to the floor. Above and below deck they -stood in great rows like lines of automobiles in a garage. - -Towards sundown the forward planes were manned and in quick -succession shot down the runways and took to the air. Ethel and her -companions were below air the time and hardly knew what was going -on. Their luggage had been taken up some time ago, except for an -extra kima, which they had been ordered to put on. In their turn -they were now called out and ordered to go above, that is, the names -of the men were called and Ethel knew that she was listed as Madame -Komoru, a thing that made her shiver every time it was brought to -her attention. - -An exclamation or astonishment escaped the lips of the more -impulsive American girl as she came on deck; for as far as the eye -could see the gray flat tops of the war vessels were covered with -the drab-winged planes, while every few seconds a plane shot into -the air and joined an endless winged line that stretched away to the -northeast. - -"Komoru eighty-five: Oshima eighty-six." - -The intent of that command was clear and Ethel was soon settled -immediately behind the young secretary in the little bamboo car of a -Japanese plane-of-war. - -The propeller started with a shrill musical hum; they raced down the -runway; dipped for a second toward the water; rose, and sailed -swiftly up and on toward the dark line of Mexico, that lay in the -evening shadow cast by the curved surface of the Pacific Ocean. - - -(To be continued.) - - - - - -PART TWO. - - -In the Clutch of the War-God - -THE TALE OF THE ORIENT'S INVASION OF THE OCCIDENT, AS CHRONICLED IN -THE HUMANICULTURE SOCIETY'S "NOTES ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY". - -By Milo Hastings - -Synopsis of Previous Installment: In the year -1958, Ethel Calvert, a daughter of an American -grain-merchant, residing in Japan, because of her -father's death in an anti-foreign riot, is forced -to take refuge with Madame Oshima, the French wife -of a Japanese scientist. She becomes accustomed to -the mode of living followed by the Japanese, and -is finally persuaded to adopt the costume of the -land of her exile. War is declared between Japan -and the United States, and Professor Oshima, and -Komoru, his Secretary, together with Madame Oshima -and Ethel Calvert, sail for United States in a -Japanese war vessel. When near the Pacific Coast, -the many men and women who have been passengers on -the vessel, leave the ship by means of aeroplanes, -and sail eastwardly over Southern California. - - - -The air cut by Ethel's face at a ninety-mile gait, and she gripped -nervously at the hand-rails of the car. Then, regaining confidence, -she began to drink in the novel view about her. Ahead were the -drab-winged aeroplanes growing smaller and smaller until they became -mere specks against the darkening sky. She turned to the rear and -watched the myriads of humans, like birds, rising from the -transports that still lay in the sunshine. There were literally -thousands of them. She wondered if human eyes had ever before -witnessed so marvelous a sight. - -They had come over the mainland of Mexico now and were flying at a -height of about half a mile. Shrouded in the tropical twilight, the -landscape below was but dimly discernible. As the darkness came on, -Ethel discovered that a small light glowed from the side of the car -in front of the driver. Gripping the hand-rail, she made bold to -raise herself; and, stopping beneath the searchlight and machine-gun -that hung, one beneath the other, on swivels in the center of the -framework, she peered forward over Komoru's shoulder. - -The taciturn steersman turned and smiled but said nothing. Ethel -noted carefully the equipment of the driver's box. It was a -duplicate throughout of the dummy steering gear with which she had -practiced in the ship's gymnasium. One conspicuous addition, -however, was an object illuminated by the small glow lamp that had -attracted her attention. This proved to be chart or map mounted at -either end on short rollers. As the girl watched it, she perceived -that it moved slowly. A red line was drawn across the map and -hovering over this was the tip of a metal pointer. A compass and a -watch were mounted at one side of the chart case. - -Ethel watched the chart creep back on its rollers and reasoned that -the pointer indicated the location of the aeroplane. She wondered -how the movement of the chart was regulated with that of the plane. -Finally she decided to ask Komoru. - -"By the landmarks and the time," he said. "Do you see that blue -coming in on the northeast corner of the map?" - -"Yes." - -"Well, watch it." - -After a few minutes of waiting the words "_Gulf of Mexico_" rolled -out upon the chart. "Why, that can't be," said Ethel, "we just left -the Pacific Ocean." - -"But we have crossed the Isthmus of Tehauntepec," replied Komoru; -"it is only a hundred miles wide." - -His companion looked over the side of the car and to the front and. -to the right, she could see by the perfectly flat horizon that they -were approaching water. - -"The map is unrolling too fast," said Komoru, as the pointer stood -over the edge of the indicated water--and he pushed back the little -lever on the clock mechanism that rolled the chart. "We have a -little head wind," he added. - -Ethel resumed her seat and sat musing for a half hour or so. Komoru -looked around and called to her. - -"Look over to your left," he said. "The lights of Vera Cruz. We are -making better time now," he added, again adjusting the regulator on -the clock work. - -The driver contemplated his compass carefully and shifted his course -a few points to the right. Ethel settled in her bamboo cage and -pulled her aviation cap down tightly to shield her face and ears -from the wind pressure. - -For hours they sat so--the girl's heart throbbing with awe, wonder -and fear; the man unemotional and silent, a steady, firm hand on the -wheel, his feet on the engine controls and his goggled eyes glancing -critically at compass or watch or out into the starlit waste of the -night, disturbed only by the whirl and shadow of other planes which -with varying speed passed or were passed, as the aerial host rushed -onward. There were only small tail lights, one above and one below -the main plane, to warn following drivers against collision. - - - * * * - -With her head bent low upon her knees, Ethel at length fell into a -doze. She was aroused by Komoru's calling, and straightening up with -a start, she arose and leaned forward over the driver. Komoru was -looking intently at the scroll chart. In a moment she designed the -cause of his interest, for there had rolled across the forward -surface of the chart the outline of a coast. - -In the far left-hand corner was marked the city of Galveston, and to -the right was the Sabine River that forms the boundary between Texas -and Louisiana. Ethel raised her eyes from the map and looked far out -to the Northwest. Sure enough, she discerned the lights of a city at -the point where Galveston was indicated by the chart. - -"How far have we come?" she asked in astonishment. - -"Eight hundred miles," replied Komoru. "See, it is nearly -two-thirty. The first men with the faster planes were to have -arrived at one o'clock." - -A little later they passed over the dimly discernible coast line, -some thirty or forty miles to the east of Galveston. Komoru -carefully consulted his compass, watch and aneroid, and made a -slight change in his course. - -"Where do we land?" asked the girl. - -Komoru steadied the wheel with one hand; and, reaching into the -breast pocket of his aviator's jacket, he produced a little -document-like roll. "These are the orders," he explained, and asked -Ethel to spread out the papers on the chart case. - -The instruction sheet read: - -"Fly twenty-eight minutes beyond the coast line, -which will place you ten or twenty miles northwest -of the town of Beaumont, where a fire of some sort -will be lighted about 3 a.m. - -"When you alight locate one or more farm houses -and attach one of the enclosed notices to the -door. - -"This done, fly toward the Beaumont signal fire -and assist in subduing the town and capturing all -petroleum works in the region. - -"At 6 a.m., if petroleum works are safe, follow -the lead of the red plane and fly northwest as far -as Fort Worth, returning by nightfall to oil -region." - - -Ethel read the paper over and over as she held it down out of the -wind by the dim glow lamp. She wanted to ask questions. She wondered -what was expected of her. She wondered again as to what was expected -of the entire invasion and why the women had been brought along. But -her questions did not find verbal expression, for she had schooled -herself to await developments. - -The roller chart had now come to a stop and showed the red line that -marked their course terminating in a cross to the northwest of the -town of Beaumont. Komoru tilted the plane downward and flew for a -time near the earth. Then checking the speed, he ran it lightly -aground in an open field a little distance from a clump of -buildings. - -The driver got out and stretched his cramped limbs. Taking a hand -glow lamp he ran carefully over the mechanism of the plane. Then he -opened a locker and took out two small magazine pistols. One he -handed to Ethel. - -"Don't use it," he said, "until you have to." - -"Will you go with me?" he asked, "to tack the poster, or will you -stay with the plane?" - -"I'll stay here," she replied. - -Komoru walked off rapidly towards the house. Presently the stillness -was interrupted by the vociferous barking of a dog; Then there was a -sound as of some one picking a taut wire and the voice of the dog -curdled in a final yelp. - -In a few minutes Komoru was back. "Dogs are no good," he said; "they -produce nothing but noise." - -"Will you kindly get aboard, Miss Ethel? There is much to do." - -[Illustration: By carefully shielding his flash lamp, Komoru was -able to read a duplicate of the notice he had just fastened up.] - -Ethel obeyed; meanwhile Komoru inspected the surface of the ground -for a few yards in front of the plane. Returning he climbed into his -seat and started the engine. They arose without mishap. - -Within a mile or two, Komoru picked out another farm house and made -a landing nearby. - -"I will go with you this time," said Ethel courageously. - -Approaching an American residence, Ethel suddenly found herself -conscious of the fact that she was dressed in a most unladylike -Japanese kimo. For a moment the larger sentiments of the occasion -were replaced by the womanly query, "What will people say?" Then she -laughed inwardly at the absurdity of her thought. - -Komoru produced the roll from his pocket and unwound a small cloth -poster. This he fastened to the door jam by pressing in the thumb -tacks that were sewed in the hem. Then noting another white blotch -on the opposite side of the door, he carefully shielded his lamp, -and made a light. It was a duplicate of the notice he had just -fastened up and read: - - -WARNING - -"Two hundred thousand Japanese have invaded Texas -and are desirous of possessing your property. You -are respectfully requested to depart immediately -and apply to your government for property -elsewhere. All buildings not vacated within -twenty-four hours will be promptly burned--unless -displaying a flag truce for sufficient reason. -Kindly co-operate with us in avoiding bloodshed. - - (Signed) The Japanese People." - -"We were late," said Komoru as they walked back toward the plane. -"Two hundred thousand," he mused; "what you call 'bluff,' I guess." - -"It's growing light," said Ethel, as they reached the plane. - -"Yes, a little," replied Komoru, as he walked around to the front. -"An ugly ditch," he said. "We shall have to use the helicopter." - -Taking his seat he threw down a lever and what had appeared to be -two small superimposed planes above the main plane assumed the form -of flat screws. Letting the engine gain full headway, Komoru threw -the clutch on this shafting, and the vertical screws started -revolving in opposite directions with a great downward rush of air. -The whole apparatus tilted a bit, and then slowly but steadily -arose. - -When they had reached altitude of a hundred feet or so, the driver -shifted the power to the quieter horizontal propeller and the plane -sidled off like an eagle dropping from a crag. - -Tilting the plane upward, Komoru circled for altitude. Presently he -called back over his shoulder, saying that he saw the signal fire at -Beaumont at the same time heading the plane in that direction. - -As the dawn began to break in the East, the occasional passing -lights of flying planes became less bright and soon the planes -themselves stood out against the sky like shadows. And then the -whole majestic train of aerial invaders became visible as they -poured over the southern horizon---a never ending stream. - -Komoru and Ethel landed in a meadow already well filled with planes -and following the others, hurried along toward the town. - -There had been some fighting in the streets and a few buildings were -burning. Walking along to the main street of the town, they came -upon a crowd of Japanese who were collected in front of a building -from which the contents were being dragged hastily. - -"What is it?" asked Komoru of one of the men. - -"Hardware store," replied the other; "we've rifled all of them for -the weapons and explosives." - -"Where are all the people?" asked Ethel. "The Americans--are they -killed or captured?" - -"They are at home in their houses," answered the man, who seemed -well posted. "I was with the first squad to arrive. We captured the -policemen and then took the telephone switchboard. Japanese -operators are in there now. They have called up every one in town -and explained the situation, and advised the people to stay indoors, -telling them that every house would be burned from which people -emerged or shots were fired. The operators are working on the rural -numbers yet. We hold the telegraph also, and are sending out -exaggerated reports of the size of the Japanese invasion." - - * * * - -A man wearing a blue sash came hurrying up. He stopped before the -group at the hardware store and gestured for silence. - -"The town is well in hand," he said, "and only those of you who are -detailed here as guards need remain longer; the others will get back -to their planes and await the rise of their designated leaders for -the flights of the day. - -"Come," said Komoru to his companion. But Ethel did not move. Her -mind was racked with perplexity. Here she was in a city of her own -people. Why should she continue to accompany this young Japanese -whom, despite his gentlemanly conduct, she instinctively feared? Yet -what else could she do? She was dressed in the peculiar attire of -the invaders, and would certainly have trouble in convincing an -American of her identity. - -[Illustration: As they passed near other planes, Ethel noted that in -many cases the women were driving.] - -"I must ask you to hurry," said Komoru, as the others moved off. -With an effort Ethel gathered her wavering emotions in hand and went -with him. If she must go, she reasoned it were well not to arouse -Komoru's suspicion of her loyalty. - -A few minutes later they were again in the air, following the lead -of a plane with bright red wings--the flag-ship, as it were, of the -group. - -In a half hour the expedition was approaching Houston. Coming over -the city, the leader circled high and waited until his followers -were better massed. - -"Are we going to attack the town?" inquired Ethel, as Komoru asked -her for the water-bottle. - -"Oh, no," he replied, "nothing of the sort; we are simply bluffing. -There are a number of expeditions going out to-day. We must make the -appearance of a great invasion." - -"How many planes are there all told?" - -Komoru smiled. "Not so many," he said. - -"But how many?" persisted Ethel. - -"Fifteen thousand, maybe," Komoru replied. - -"To invade a country with nearly two hundred million inhabitants! We -will surely all be killed." - -Komoru smiled. - -"By sheer force of numbers," explained Ethel. - -"Wait and see," replied her enigmatical companion. - -For hours the little aerial squadron sailed through the balmy air of -Texas. They passed over Austin and Waco and Fort Worth and Dallas. -They turned eastward and passed over Texarkana, and thence south to -impress the people of Shreveport. - -The excitement evinced in the towns increased as the news of their -flight was wired ahead. They were frequently shot at by groups of -excited citizens or occasional companies of militia, but at the -height and speed at which they were flying the bullets went wide. -One plane was lost. Something must have snapped. It doubled up and -went tumbling downward like a wounded pigeon. - -The sun was dropping toward the western horizon. The invaders had -been flying for ten hours. They had been without food or sleep for -thirty-six hours. Save for the brief relaxation of the morning, -Komoru had not taken his hands from the steering wheel, nor his foot -from the engine control since the previous sunset in the Bay of -Tehauntepec. - -[Illustration: The two women of Aryan blood worked together in the -cotton field side by side with the Orientals.] - -As they passed near other planes, Ethel noted that in many cases the -women were driving. Notwithstanding her dislike for him, the girl -found herself wishing that she could relieve Komoru. - -She pondered over his "wait and see" and began to discern a new -possibility in an invasion of thirty thousand Japanese. She tried to -imagine one of the society favorites of her Chicago girlhood sitting -in front of her driving that plane. She remembered distinctly that -aeroplane racing was a part of the diversion of such men and that -five or six hours of driving was considered quite a feat. - -The more she considered the man before her, the more she marvelled -at his powers. She confessed he interested her; she wondered why she -disliked him. The only answer that seemed acceptable was that he was -"not her kind." - -Towards dusk, they hove in sight of the derricks of the Beaumont oil -region. The leader with the red plane descended in a large meadow. -Komoru was well to the front and brought his plane to earth a few -meters from the red wings. The man in the flag plane who had that -day led them over a thousand miles and a score of cities got out and -stretched himself. With an exclamation of joyful surprise, Ethel -recognized that he was Professor Oshima. - -The Japanese camped where they were for the night. The wings of the -planes were guyed to the ground with cordage and little steel -stakes. Beneath such improvised tents the tired aerial cavalrymen -rolled themselves in their sleeping blankets and for twelve hours -the camp was as quiet as a graveyard. - -That day had been a great day in history; it was the first -consequential aerial invasion that the world had ever known. While -the arrivals of the morning had been circling in fear-inspiring -flights above the neighboring states, the later starters from the -Japanese squadron had continued to arrive in the oil regions. Like -migrating birds, they settled down over the rich fields and grazing -lands of that wonderful strip of flat, black-soiled prairie that -stretches westward from the south center of Louisiana until it -emerges into the great semi-arid cattle plains of southern Texas. - -The region, though one of the richest in the United States, was but -sparsely settled. Save for the few thousand white laborers who were -supported by the oil industry, the whole resident population were -negroes who were worked under imported white foremen in the rice and -truck lands of the region. - -The negroes were panic stricken by the Japanese invasion and made -practically no resistance. In two or three days, the country for a -forty-mile radius around Beaumont was cleared of Americans and -practically the entire oil region of Texas with its vast storage -tanks at Port Arthur on the Sabine River, were in the hands of the -invaders. - -There were not ten regiments of American soldiers within five -hundred miles. The great mass of the American army had been rushed -weeks before to southern California, and the remnant left in the -Gulf region had more recently been hastened to Panama. In fact, the -American squadron had steamed into Colon on the very morning the -Japanese alighted on Texas soil. - -On the second morning of their arrival, Japanese officials circling -above the captured region, roughly allotted the land to Captains -under whose leadership were a hundred planes each. The captains then -assigned each couple places to stake their plane, which were located -a hundred meters apart, allowing to each about two and a half acres -of land. - -Professor Oshima and Komoru, as soil chemists, were constantly on -the go making studies of the land and advising with the other -experts as to the crops to plant, and the methods of tillage for the -various locations. - -In the cotton lands, where Ethel and her associates were located, -the soil was immediately put to a fuller use. The cotton plants were -thinned and pruned and between the rows quick growing vegetables -were planted. Elsewhere the great pastures were broken up with -captured kerosene-driven gang plows and by dint of hard labor the -sod was quickly reduced to a fit state for intensive cultivation. - -The outside work of the professor and his secretary threw Ethel -altogether in the company of Madame Oshima. For this fact she was -very grateful, as her aversion to Komoru, to whom she was nominally -bound, grew more and more a source of worry and fear. So the two -women of Aryan blood worked together in the cotton field side by -side with the Orientals--worked and waited and wondered what was -awing in the surrounding world. - -The gasoline wagons came around and refilled the fuel tanks of the -planes. Mechanics inspected the engines carefully and replaced -defective parts. The rice cakes and soyu brought from Japan, had -been replaced by a diet of wheat and maize products and fresh fruits -and vegetables taken from the captured stores and gardens. Such -captured foods, however, had all been inspected by the dieteticians, -and those of doubtful wholesomeness destroyed or placed under lock -and key to be used only as a last resort. - -Thus weeks passed. The green things of Japanese planting had poked -their tender shoots through the black American soil. There had been -no fighting except in few cases, where a company of foolhardy -militia or a local posse had tried to attach the Japanese outposts. -American aeroplanes had wisely staid away. - -But the fight was yet to come. The Federal Government had recalled -its ships from Panama and was bringing back the soldiers from -California. On the great flat prairie between Galveston and Houston, -a mighty military camp was being established. Aeroplane sheds were -erected and repair shops built. Long lines of army tents were -pitched in close proximity. Army canteens were established that the -thirsty soldiers might get pure liquor and good tobacco and a few -rods away--over the line--other grog shops were opened wherein were -sold similar goods not so guaranteed. Gambling sharks arrived and -set up shell games and bedraggled prostitutes--outcasts from urban -centers of debauchery---came and camped nearby and made night -hideous with their obscene revelry. - -So the American soldier prepared for battle against the enemy who, -fifty miles away, slept undisturbed in the midst of gardens beneath -the wings of their aeroplanes. - -Never since Roman phalanx moved against the hordes of disorganized -barbarians had such extremes of method in warfare been pitted -against each other. Indeed it is doubtful if the invasion of the -Japanese should be called war at all. They were not blood-thirsty. -In fact, the Japanese invaders had sent word to the American -Government asserting their peaceful intentions if they were -unmolested, though threatening dire vengeance by firing cities and -poisoning water supplies if they were attacked. - -Madame Oshima shook her head. "Such talk is only pretense," she -said, "the Japanese intend to live in America and would never so -embitter the people--and it will not be necessary." - -Ethel was in doubt. She pictured the Japanese planes flying above -the unprotected inland cities dropping conflagration bombs upon -shingled roof or casks of prussic acid into open reservoirs. She -wished she were out of it all. She wanted to escape and yet she knew -not how. - -The Americans made no hasty attacks. They feared the threats of the -Japanese and awaited the gathering of many hundred thousand -soldiers. At the end of four weeks the American army was spread in a -giant semi-circle surrounding the Japanese encampment from coast to -coast. Along the Gulf Coast was also a line of American battleships, -so that the Japanese encampment was entirely surrounded with an -almost continuous line of aeroplane destroying guns. - -All preparations were at last complete and with cavalry beneath and -aeroplanes above, the American strategists planned a dash across the -Japanese territory with the belief that the outlying lines of -artillery would bring to earth those that succeeded in getting into -the air. - - * * * - -One evening at the hour of twilight, messengers passed rapidly among -the Japanese distributing maps and orders to prepare for flight. - -Late that night, their possessions made ready for flight, Komoru and -Ethel sat with Professor and Madame Oshima beneath the latter's -plane. - -"Our scouts have come to the conclusion," said Oshima, "that a -cavalry attack is to be expected in the early morning. So our plan -is for a signal plane to rise at two o'clock directly over the -center of our territory. It will carry a bright yellow light. -Beginning with the outlying groups our forces are to fly toward the -light, rising as they go. Attaining an altitude of two miles they -are thence to fly due north as our maps show. We will suffer some -loss, but two miles high and at night I guess American gunners will -not inflict great damage." - -Ethel shuddered. - -"Do you think the American aviators will follow us?" asked Komoru. - -"That depends," replied the older man, "upon the reception we give -them; we have them outnumbered." - -"They carry men gunners," said Madame Oshima. - -"So," said the Professor, "but shooting from an aeroplane depends -not so much upon the gunner as upon the steersman. Their planes -wabble, the metal frame work is too stiff, it doesn't yield to the -air pressure." - -Along such lines the conversation continued for an hour or so. -Neither the men nor Madame Oshima seemed the least bit excited over -the prospects; but Ethel, striving to keep up external appearances, -was inwardly torn with warring emotions. - -Making an excuse of wishing to look for something among her luggage, -the girl finally escaped and walked quickly toward the other plane. -But instead of stopping, she passed by and continued down between -the rows of cotton, avoiding as much as possible the lights that -dotted the field about her. - -"Oh, God!" she repeated under her breath; "Oh, God! I can't go! I -won't go!" - -For some time she walked on briskly trying to calm her feverish mind -and reason out a sane course of procedure. - -She was passing thus where the lights of two planes glowed fifty -meters at either side, when she stumbled heavily over some dark -object between the cotton rows. She turned to see what it was; and, -bending forward, discerned in the starlight the body of a man. She -started to run; then, fearing pursuit the more, checked her speed. -As she did so some one grasped her arm and a heavy hand was clapped -over her mouth. - -"Keep quiet," commanded her captor hoarsely. In another instant he -had bent her back over his knee and thrown her--or rather dropped -her for she did not resist--upon the soft earth beneath. - -"If you make a sound, I'll have to shoot," he said, resting a heavy -knee upon her chest and clasping her slender wrist in a vise-like -grip of a single hand. - -The girl breathed heavily. - -The man reached toward his hip pocket and drawing forth a bright -metallic object held it close to her face. Her breath stopped short. -Then a flood of light struck her full in the eyes, as her captor -pressed the button on his flash lamp. - -"God! a woman!" the man gasped. The exclamation and voice were -clearly not Japanese. - -Ethel felt the grip loosen from her wrists and the weight shift from -her chest. - -"You're no Japanese!" he said under his breath, at the same time -letting the glowing flash lamp fall from his hand. - -Presently Ethel raised her head and reached for the lamp where it -lay wasting its rays against the black soil. She now turned the glow -on the other and saw kneeling beside her a young man in American -clothes. He was hatless and coatless and his soft gray shirt was -torn and mud bespattered. A massive head of uncombed hair crowned a -handsome forehead, but the face beneath was marred by a stubby -growth of beard. - -"Who are you?" whispered Ethel finding her voice. - -"Put out the light," he commanded, reaching forward to take it from -her. - -"Who are you?" he asked reversing the query as they were again in -darkness. - -"I'm a girl," said Ethel. - -The man laughed softly. - -"I'm not," he said. - -Ethel drew herself into a sitting posture. "Which side of this war -are you on?" she asked. - -The man was afraid to commit himself--then a happy thought struck -him. "The same side that you are," he answered diplomatically. - -It was Ethel's turn to smile. - -"You are an American?" she ventured at length. - -"Yes," he said. "So are you?" - -"Yes." - -"Then why are you wearing Japanese clothes?" - -"Because--" she said hesitatingly, "I haven't any others." - -For some minutes he said nothing. - -"Are you going to give the alarm of my presence?" he asked at -length. - -"No." - -"Then I'll go," he said. - -Rising from his knees, but still stooping, he made off rapidly down -the cotton row. - -Ethel breathed deeply. Confused thoughts flashed through her mind. -She would not return to go with Komoru; in her Japanese garb she -feared the early morning sweep of American cavalry; but to the man -who had just left her, why could she not explain? - -Without further debate, she arose, and at top speed ran after the -retreating figure. - - - - - -The next instalment of this absorbing tale will -appear in the September issue of PHYSICAL CULTURE. -It tells of how the Japanese attempt to obtain -control of the United States through scientific -measures rather than barbarous warfare, and is -wonderfully interesting and readable. Don't miss -it. - - - -PART THREE. - - -In the Clutch of the War-God - -THE TALE OF THE ORIENT'S INVASION OF THE OCCIDENT, AS CHRONICLED IN -THE HUMANICULTURE SOCIETY'S "NOTES ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY" - -By Milo Hastings - -SYNOPSIS: In the year of 1958, Ethel Calvert, a -daughter of an American grain-merchant, residing -in Japan, because of her father's death in an -anti-foreign riot, is forced to take refuge, with -Madame Oshima, the French wife of a Japanese -scientist. She becomes accustomed to the land and -mode of living followed by the Japanese, and is -finally persuaded to adopt the costume of the land -of her exile. War is declared between Japan and -the United States, and Professor Oshima, and -Komoru, his Secretary, together with Madame Oshima -and Ethel Calvert, sail for the United States in a -Japanese war vessel. When near the Pacific Coast, -the many men and women who have been passengers on -the vessel, leave the ship by means of aeroplanes, -and sail eastwardly toward Texas, where they -establish plantations and conduct a desultory -warfare by aeroplanes with United States troops. -While working in the fields Ethel discovers a -young American in concealment. He warns her to -keep silent, and immediately runs away. - - - -In a few minutes Ethel had caught up with the man who, more -cautiously, ran before her. Checking her speed, she followed -silently. - -For a half-mile she pursued him thus. He came to the end of the -field and dodged into the thicket of bushes that lined the fence -row. He moved more slowly now, and she followed by sound rather than -by sight. At length they came to where a brook ran at right angles -to the fence row. The man stopped and crawled under the barbed-wire -fence and came out on the turnpike that ran alongside. - -Ethel, peering out from the bushes, saw him walk boldly forward and -stand upon the end of the stone culvert that conducted the brook -beneath the roadway. For a moment only he remained so, and then -clambered quickly down at the end of the arch and disappeared in the -darkness beneath. She heard a foot splash in the water, and then all -was quiet save the gurgle of the stream. - -Climbing over the fence, she top ran forward upon the culvert. She -listened and looked toward either end, resolved to call to him if he -emerged. - -As she stood waiting she saw the yellow signal light rise in spirals -higher and higher and then circle slowly in one location. A few -minutes later the dim tail lights of the planes came up out of the -horizon and flew towards the signal light. - -After a half-hour of waiting, she boldly resolved to enter the -hiding place of the man she had followed. - -Cautiously feeling her way, she clambered down over the end of the -culvert and peered into its black archway. - -At first, dimly and then with brighter flash, she saw a light -within. Creeping slowly forward, wading in the stream and stumbling -over rough blocks of stone, she made toward the light. Midway the -passage, the side wall of the culvert had fallen or been torn down -and there in a little damp clay nook, sitting hunched upon a rock -was the silhouette of the unshaven man. - -Beyond him glowed the dim light and by its faint rays he was -hurriedly writing in a note book. - -With a start he became aware of her presence, and turned the -flash-light upon her. - -"I followed you," she stammered. "I want to explain. I'm an American -girl captive among the Japanese." - -He stared at her quizzically in the dim light. - -"I ran from you," he said, "because I was afraid to trust you--there -are a number of Europeans among the Japanese forces. I couldn't know -that you wouldn't have given the alarm, and for one man to run from -fifty thousand isn't cowardice; it's common sense--even bravery, -perhaps, when there's a cause at stake." - -"I understand," replied the girl. - -"Won't you be seated?" he said, arising and offering her his place -on the rock. She accepted, and he asked her for more of her story. - -In reply she told him whom she was and related as briefly as she -could the incidents of her life that accounted for her peculiar -predicament. - -"I suppose I owe you something of an explanation, too;" he said, -when she had finished. "My name is Winslow--Stanley Winslow; I am ---or at least was---the editor of the _Regenerationist_. Do you know -what that is?" - -Ethel confessed, that she did not. - -"Perhaps I flatter myself, but then I suppose you have had no chance -to keep up on American affairs." - -Just then a crash, followed by a whirring, clattering noise broke in -above the sound of the man's voice and the gurgle of the brook -running through their hiding-place. - -"What's that?" Winslow exclaimed, starting towards the end of the culvert. - -[Illustration: She was washing her woven grass sandals by rubbing -the soles together in the stream.] - -Ethel followed him. Before they reached the open the trees in front -of them were lit up by the lurid light of a fire. Beside the road a -hundred yards away was the crumpled mass of a metallic aeroplane. -The gasolene tank had burst open and was blazing furiously. - -"Americans," said Winslow; "let's see if the crew are dead." - -The gasolene had largely spent itself by the time they reached the -plane. - -Poking about in the crumbled debris, they found the driver impaled -upon a lever that protruded from his back. - -"I wonder what grounded her," mused Winslow, as he inspected the -dead man with his flash-lamp. "Oh! here we are! Good shooting that," -he added, pointing with his lamp to a soggy hole in the side of the -man's head. - -"I guess they're at it," he said, pressing out his light and turning -his eyes skyward. - -The woman, speechless, followed his gaze. Across the sky flashed -here and there brilliant beams of search-lights, but far more -numerous were the swiftly moving star-like tail-lights of the -Japanese planes. - -Now and again they heard the crackling of machine guns, occasionally -the burr of a disordered propeller and once the faint call of a -human voice. - -"Look," said Ethel, pointing to the southward. "See that brilliant -yellow light. It's the Japanese signal plane; they are all to fly in -towards it, and then, soaring high will escape over the American -lines." - -"The lines are a joke," returned Winslow. "It's plane against plane. -And the Japs will get the best of it; or at least they'll get away, -which is all they want. They are going to Dakota, where five train -loads of gasolene will be setting on a siding waiting to be -captured. We printed the story ten days ago, though the -administration papers hooted at the idea." - -As they walked back toward the culvert, Ethel stumbled over -something in the roadway. She asked for the light, and discovered to -her horror that she was standing in the midst of the remnants of a -man who had been spattered over the hard macadam of the turnpike. - -"Ugh! take me away," she shuddered, averting her eyes and running -toward the stream, - -"The gunner fell out of the plane when she lurched, I guess," -commented Winslow to himself, examining the shreds of clothing -attached to the mangled remains beneath him. - -For some reason Winslow did not immediately follow the girl but went -back and looked over the wrecked plane again. - -He removed the magazine pistol from the impaled man's pocket and -searched about in the locker until he found a supply of cartridges. - -The sky was beginning to brighten from approaching dawn now, and the -searchlight flashes were less brilliant. Winslow stood gazing upward -until the forms of the lower flying planes became visible. Suddenly -he saw a disabled plane come somersaulting out of the air and fall -into a field quarter of a mile away. Evidently there were explosives -aboard, for a shower of flame, smoke and splinters arose where she -fell. - -The onlooking man hopped over the fence and ran toward the spot. -There was little to be seen--a mere ragged hole in the sod. As he -unconcernedly walked back he passed at intervals a propeller blade -sticking upright in the soil, a broken can of rice cakes and a -woman's hand. - -The dawn had now so far progressed that the observer could see some -order in the movement of the air craft. He studied with fascination -the last of the Japanese planes as they circled up toward their -aerial guide-post and moved thence in a steady stream to the -northward. - -The American planes which had been harassing and firing on the -Japanese as they circled for altitude, now turned and closed in on -the rear of the enemy and the fighting was fast and furious. Plane -after plane tumbled sickeningly out of the sky. But for Winslow the -sight lasted only a few minutes, for the combatants were flying at -full speed and soon became mere flitting insects against the gray -light of the morning sky. - -Striding down the roadway past the mangled body of the American -gunner, Winslow reached the culvert. - -Ethel Calvert was sitting on a flat stone at the edge of the water. -She held her woven grass sandals in her hands and was washing them -by rubbing the soles together in the stream. - -As Winslow looked down at her in silence, the girl looked up and -eyed him curiously. Neither spoke. The man stooped and washed his -hands in the brook and then stepping up-stream a few paces he drank -from the rivulet. - -Returning he regarded the girl. She had placed her sandals beyond -her on the grassy bank and sat with her bare feet in the shallow -stream. Her head, buried in her arms, rested upon her knees. The -slender shoulders now shook convulsively and the sound of a sob -escaped her. In the calmness of his cynicism, the man sat down on -the rock and placed a strong arm around the trembling woman. - -[Illustration: In another moment, he turned in a gap through the -fence and rode down upon the fleeing woman.] - -"I know," he said, "it's a dirty damned mess, but we didn't start -it." - -After a time the girl raised her head. "I know we didn't start it," -she said; "but isn't there something we can do to stop it?" - -"Well," he replied slowly, "I rather hope to have a hand in stopping -it, and perhaps you can help." - -"How?" - -"Surely you can do as much in stopping it as one of those poor -devils that get smashed does in keeping it going," he went on. - -"How?" she repeated. - -"Well, that's quite a long story," he replied; "if you don't already -know." - -"I told you who I was." - -"Yes." - -"Well, the Regenerationists, along with many other sincere men and -women in this country tried to prevent this war and are trying to -get it peaceably settled now. The Japs don't want to die. They want -a chance to live. We've got a lot of vainglorious, debauched, -professional soldiery that wanted to fight something, and now -they're getting their fill. In the first place, there is no need of -war and in the second place, when there is war, the same stamina -that will make efficient humans for the ordinary walks of life will -make good soldiers. But money talks louder than reason. The ruling -powers in American government are a crew of beer-bloated politicians -who are in the pay of a cabal of wine-soaked plutocrats, and the -American people under such administration have become a race of -mental and physical degenerates. The Japs knew this or they would -never have invaded the country." - -"What are you going to do about it? And what are you doing here now -within the Japanese lines?" asked Ethel when her companion paused. - -"Oh, I am acting as my own war correspondent," he replied, smiling a -little. - -"_Pat-a-pat, pat-a-pat_"--Winslow jumped up excitedly and clambered -to the top of the embankment. - -Ethel noting his alarm, slipped her feet into her sandals and rose -to follow him. - -"Quick," he exclaimed, hurrying down the bank again. "It's American -cavalry." - -"But let us go meet them," said the girl. - -"No, never," replied Winslow, taking her by the arm and hurrying her -into the culvert. "You don't understand. As for you in kimo, your -reception would be anything but pleasant; and as for me, I'm an -outlaw with a price on my head." - -Reaching the chink where the rocks had fallen out of the culvert -wall, Winslow squeezed into it and pulled the girl down beside him. -Carefully he crowded her feet and his own back so that their -presence could not be detected from the end of the culvert. - -"I'm afraid we left tracks on the bank, but we can at least die -game," he said, pulling his magazine pistol from his belt and -handing it to the girl, while he drew from his hip pocket the weapon -he had taken from the dead aviator. - -"I hate these things," he said, "but when a man is in a corner and -no chance to run, I suppose he's justified in using a cowardly -fighting machine." - -They heard clearly now the hoof beats on the roadway above. -Presently an officer rode his horse down to the stream at the head -of the culvert. "Anything under there?" called a voice from above. - -"Nothing doing," replied the other, peering beneath the archway. - -"You're a fool sitting there like that," called a third voice. -"Company C lost two men back there from a wounded Jap under a -bridge." - -The horseman urged his beast up the bank and the troop passed on. - -For some hours the man and the girl remained in the culvert; -meanwhile Winslow explained the Regenerationist movement, which was -not as his enemies interpreted, a traitorous party favoring the -Japanese, but only a group of thinkers who advocated principles not -unlike those which had made the Japanese such a superior race either -at peace or at war. - -As she listened, it seemed to Ethel as if her own dream had come -true, for here indeed was a man of her own blood with stamina of -physique and mental and moral courage, who professed and practiced -all she had found that was good among the people of her enforced -adoption and in addition much that, to her with her racial prejudice -in his favor, seemed even better than the ways of Japanese. - -In reply to her questions as to the cause of his outlawry, Winslow -explained that he and other leaders of his party had long been at -swords' points with the conservatives who were in power and that the -administration, taking advantage of the martial frenzy of the war, -were persecuting the Regenerationists as supposed traitors. - - * * * - -As the sun indicated mid-forenoon the dishevelled editor of the -Regenerationist and his newly found follower sauntered forth and -took to the turnpike. - -"We may as well be on the road," he argued. "The sooner the American -people get the inside facts of this affair the sooner they will -decide to stop it, and it's forty-five miles to the nearest place -where I can get in touch with my people." - -Bareheaded, through the hot sun, they travelled rapidly along the -turnpike, keeping a sharp lookout for occasional parties of cavalry -and hiding in the fields until they passed. Sometimes they talked of -the contrasted ways of life in Japan and in America, and again -Winslow wrote hurriedly in his note-book as he walked. - -About three o'clock in the afternoon they stopped in the shade where -a rivulet fell over a small cataract. - -"Aren't you hungry?" asked Ethel, after they had drunk from the -brook. - -"I don't know. I hadn't thought of it particularly," replied her -companion. "Let's see, the last time I ate was in a farmhouse north -of Houston. That was eight days ago. When have you last eaten?" - -"Yesterday morning," replied the girl. - -"Then you are probably hungrier than I am." - -With their conversation and the murmur of the waterfall they had -failed to detect the approach of two cavalry officers, who, walking -their tired mounts, had come up unheeded. - -"Hey! look at the beauty in breeches!" called one of the approaching -men. - -[Illustration: He rolled a bundle of "Regenerationists" on the wing -of the aeroplane below.] - -"Her for mine," returned the other. - -"I saw it first--hie!" returned the first, drawing rein. - -"Give it to me, you hog; you've got one!" - -"All right, all right--go take it--maybe the bum will object," -laughed the first, as the unshaven Winslow advanced in front of the -girl. - -"Run quick," called Winslow to Ethel. "They're too drunk to shoot -straight." - -The turnpike was inclosed by a high, woven-wire fence, and the girl -obeying turned down the road. Her would-be claimant put spurs to his -horse and dashed after her, leaving Winslow covering the rear -horseman with his magazine pistol. - -"Well," said the drunken officer weakly, "I ain't doing nothing." - -"Then ride down the road the other way as fast as you can go." - -The officer obeyed. - -For a moment Winslow watched him and then turned to see Ethel -climbing over the woven-wire fence with the soldier trying to urge -his horse up the embankment to reach her. - -Winslow started to run to the girl's rescue, but no sooner had he -turned than a bullet sang past his ear. Wheeling about he saw the -other cavalryman riding toward him firing as he came. - -With lewd brutality calling for vengeance in one direction and a man -firing at his back from the other, Winslow's aversion to bloodshed -became nil; and, aiming cool, he began firing at the approaching -officer. - -It must have been the horse that got the bullet, for with the third -shot mount and rider somersaulted upon the macadam. - -Without compunction, Winslow turned and sprinted down the roadway. -He saw Ethel dashing across the field, hurdling the cotton rows. The -officer was racing down the road, seeming away from her, but in -another moment he turned through a gap in the fence and rode down -upon the fleeing woman. - -The athletic Winslow vaulted the six-foot fence with an easy spring, -and tore madly through the obstructing vegetation. - -The rider overtaking the woman, tried to hold her, first by the arm, -and failing in that, he grabbed her by the hair. Winslow wondered -why she did not shoot him, and then he recalled that he was carrying -both weapons. - -In another instant he was up with them and had dragged the man from -his horse and flung him to the ground. The soldier kicked and swore, -but half drunk, his resistance was of small consequence to his -well-trained adversary. - -"Here," called Winslow to the girl, who had tumbled down in a heap -more from fright than physical exhaustion, "come and get my knife -and cut the rein from the horse's bridle." - -Thus equipped, the two strapped their captive's hands and one foot -together behind him. - -"There now," said Winslow, as he relieved the officer of his weapon. -"Hop back to the bridge and look after your comrade. He fell on the -turnpike a while ago and I'm afraid he hurt his head. We'll have to -be going." - -"Shall we take the horse?" asked Ethel. - -"No," replied her companion, beginning to throw clods at the animal, -"we'll simply run him away. As for us, we are safer on foot, and -will in the long run make better time." - -"You are not tired, are you?" he asked, as they turned into the -roadway again. - -"No," she replied, "only a bit tired and weak from my scare. How far -have we come?" - -"Fifteen miles, perhaps; I really hardly know; we've been -interrupted so much." - -They made a long detour through the fields to avoid a group of -buildings. Striking the road again, they soon came upon a slight -rise of land that stood well above the level of the surrounding -country. - -"Are we not rather conspicuous here?" asked the girl. - -"Well, rather," admitted her companion, pausing to look around; "but -I guess we can see as far as we can be seen." - -"Look! look!" called Ethel excitedly, jerking her companion's arm -and pointing to the south, where the flat horizon was broken by the -derricks and tanks of the oil fields. - -At first Winslow saw nothing, and then shading his eyes he sighted -what looked like a great bevy of birds flying just above the -horizon. - -Larger and larger grew the specks against the sky. - -"They will be over us in fifteen minutes," said Winslow; "let's get -up in that oak over there, where we can see without being seen." - -Safely hidden by the enveloping foliage, the man and the girl now -watched the approach of the planes. As they came over the oil region -the planes began swooping near the ground and then rapidly rising -again. - -"Its Japanese after the American cavalry, I guess," said Winslow. In -a few minutes black smoke belched forth at numerous points from the -petroleum works. - -After a time a cloud of dust arose from a great meadow that spread -for several miles to the north of the oil wells. A group of -aeroplanes hovered closely above the dust cloud and kept up that -periodical swooping towards the earth. - -"It's stampeding cavalry," said the sharp-eyed Ethel, "and the -airmen are dropping bombs on them." - -The cloud of dust came nearer and nearer until they could see the -swift fall of the deadly missiles from the swooping planes and the -havoc wrought in the straggling ranks by the showers of pellets from -the shrapnel exploding above their heads. - -When the foremost of the cavalry troop were perhaps a quarter of a -mile from the observers, a commanding officer, who was riding well -in the lead, wheeled his horse, threw away his jacket, tore off his -white shirt and waived it frantically above his head. - -An answering truce flag soon appeared from a plane above and the -jaded horsemen, riding up, drew rein and waited. - -The truce plane now swooped low and dropped a message fastened to a -white cloth. A soldier caught it and brought it to the officer, who -signalled assent. - -Orders were called along the line, and the men filed by and piled -their weapons in an inglorious heap. - -After this most of the lazy circling planes rose and made off to the -left, while a few assigned to guard duty circled above the -retreating cavalry, as they moved off slowly in the opposite -direction. - -Two belated members of the troop, who had lost their horses, flung -themselves down to rest for a moment in the lengthening shadow of -the oak tree. - -"Oh Gawd!" said one, as he panted and mopped his forehead. "Oh Gawd! -I was scared! That damned shrapnel bursting right over us and no -chance to fight back or get away. It ain't no fair fighting like -that--you can't get at 'em." - -"They've tricked us, they have," returned his companion. "Our own -airmen's up in Nebraska chasing the Japs that gave us the slip this -morning, and here these damn hawks come swooping in. I reckon it's -reinforcements from Japan. The transports that brought the first -bunch must have been back and got another load, and this time it -seems to be regular soldiers--here to kill--the others were just -decoys." - -"No, they ain't exactly decoys; they're here to stay and raise -families, and damned if that ain't what I'm going to do, if I ever -get out of this. Gawd! our loss must be something awful, and they're -at it yet. Look! see 'em over there by Beaumont like a flock of -crows. The bunch that got us was just a few of them." - -For a time both soldiers eyed the distant fighting. - -"When I get out of this," continued the first speaker; "when I get -out, I'm going to join the Regenerationists." - -"What's that; peace cranks?" - -"Yep; but it's more than that, it's health cranks and temperance -cranks, and moral cranks, and socialist cranks, and every other kind -of crank that believes in people being decent and living -happy--health, quiet lives, instead of fighting and robbing -and--boozing and abusing themselves and each other to death." - -"Oh, Hell! don't preach just because you're scared," said the other, -getting up. - -"Call it preaching if you like, but believe me, I've been getting -letters from the folks back home, and my people ain't such poor -stuff either, if I did join the army, and I want to tell you that -such preaching is getting damn popular lately. This fall's election, -you know, and the way we've been done up here to-day, will have a -lot to do with the outcome." - -"We'd better move," said the other, looking up. "That Jap up there -thinks we're going back after our guns." - - * * * - -With the oil regions again in the hands of the vigilant Japanese, -Winslow and Ethel found escape more perilous and difficult. But on -the third night they succeeded in getting through the lines and -reaching Winslow's confederates, who were awaiting him near St. -Charles, La. From hence they travelled by aeroplane to a secluded -railroadless valley in the heart of the Ozarks. - -It was here that the secret printing plant of the _Regenerationist_ -had been established. Ethel knew nothing of printing or journalism, -but a place was found for her in the department of circulation. - -While news could be received via wireless, the paper and supplies, -as well as the men who went to and fro from the secret printing -plant of the outlawed publication, had to be transported by plane. -Aviators with sufficient skill and daring for the task were hard to -find. Already at home in the air, it was only a few days until Ethel -was driving a plane on a paper route. - -The seven hundred miles to Denver she covered one night, returning -the next. She started out with half a ton of papers--seventy-two -thousand copies--which in suitable bundles were dropped by the boy -in the center of the triangular signal fires which local agents -built at night in open fields. - -Once she lost her load by a fall in the Kansas River, and once she -ran out of fuel and held up a rich country house at the point of a -pistol and demanded the supply of automobile gasoline. - -Worst of all, she was chased one night by a government secret -service plane. Despairing of outflying them, she got and held the -position directly above their craft, while the boy rolled a -two-hundred-pound bale of _Regenerationists_ over on the other's -wing and sent the Federal airmen somersaulting into eternity. - -But these stirring times did not last long. With the second Japanese -invasion and the Orientals now established in two widely separated -sections of the country, the authorities at Washington soon acceded -to a truce, and one of the immediate results was abolition of -martial law and re-establishment of a free press. - -Throughout the summer, in the rice lands in the South, and the wheat -lands of the North, the Japanese lived, harmless gardeners of their -newly acquired possessions. But their gasoline tanks were full and -they carried sufficient conflagration bombs to have fired every city -from New Orleans to St. Paul, had the truce been broken by American -treachery. - -The _Regenerationist_, now removed to St. Louis, was again a -full-sized newspaper. The party in power, supported by the -capitalistic and military classes, preached old-fashioned patriotism -and with martial music and flying flags tried to enthuse the people. -But the terror of the American soldiery in the unfair battle of -Beaumont had gone abroad throughout the land. The people feared the -draft for military service--they feared the firing of the -cities--the poisoning of their water supplies and a hundred other -spectres which in the minds of a degenerate and servile city -population the presence of a successful aerial enemy had inspired. - -The reform party of the _Regenerationists_ had by the fortunes of -war achieved a tremendous growth. Their recruits came both from the -better element who had thus been awakened from their lethargy, and -from the cowardly rabble who supported peace because of the terror -in their hearts. - -Gerald Stoddard, Chancellor of the University of Illinois, a big -sound man of clean mind and clean body, was chosen as the radical -presidential candidate, and won with an overwhelming majority. - -His election meant peace between the warring powers, and strong -likelihood of peace in the world for all time to come. It also meant -other things. It meant the complete inversion of the American policy -and the welcoming of science as the servant of mankind's larger -needs and not merely a flunky to the degenerate, luxury-loving few. - -President-elect Stoddard, with masterful hand, began at once the -organization of the new administration. Among the appointees whom he -early announced was that of Stanley Winslow, to the position of -Secretary of Public Health. - -In his telegram of acceptance, Winslow said: - -"In signifying my intention of accepting the position of Secretary -of Public Health in your Cabinet, I wish to say that it will be my -sole purpose to prove myself possessed of the larger patriotism -which would defend our race against retrogression and annihilation, -not by such antiquated and inefficient methods as immigration -restriction or mechanical warfare, but by the improvement of the -race itself." - -And Ethel, too, sent a telegram. It read: - -PROFESSOR AND MADAME OSHIMA, - JAPANESE OCCUPATION, - SOUTH DAKOTA. - -As soon as travel is freely established come and visit us. When are -the children coming over? - - ETHEL CALVERT WINSLOW, - Care the _Regenerationist_. - -St. Louis, Mo. - -But of Komoru she said not a word. She couldn't forget the -unfathomable look in his eyes. 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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: In the Clutch of the War-God - -Author: Milo Hastings - -Release Date: September 26, 2004 [EBook #13526] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IN THE CLUTCH OF THE WAR-GOD *** - - - - -Produced by Roger Taft, grandson of the author, and -Jim Tinsley. - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div style="height: 8em;"><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br></div> - -<h1> - In the Clutch of the War-God -</h1> -<h2> -By Milo Hastings -</h2> - -<h4> -THE TALE OF THE ORIENT'S INVASION OF THE OCCIDENT, AS CHRONICLED IN -THE HUMANICULTURE SOCIETY'S "HISTORY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY" -</h4> -<center> - In three parts, from Physical Culture magazine, July - September, 1911. -</center> - - - -<hr> - - -<a name="2H_PART"><!-- H2 anchor --></a> - -<div style="height: 4em;"><br><br><br><br></div> - -<h2> -PART ONE -</h2> -<a name="2H_FORE"><!-- H2 anchor --></a> - -<div style="height: 4em;"><br><br><br><br></div> - -<p class="blurb"> -FOREWORD: In this strange story of another day, -the author has "dipped into the future" and viewed -with his mind's eye the ultimate effect of -America's self-satisfied complacency, and her -persistent refusal to heed the lessons of Oriental -progress. I can safely promise the reader who -takes up this unique recital of the twentieth -century warfare, that his interest will be -sustained to the very end by the interesting -deductions and the keen insight into the -possibilities of the present trend of -international affairs exhibited by the -author.—Bernarr Macfadden. -</p> -<div style="height: 4em;"><br><br><br><br></div> -<p> -"Kindly be prepared to absent yourself at a moment's notice." It was -Goyu speaking, blundering, old fool. He was standing in the doorway -with his kitchen-apron on, and an iron spoon in his hand. -</p> -<p> -"What on earth is the matter?" asked Ethel Calvert, tossing aside -her French novel in alarm, for such a lack of deference in Goyu -meant vastly more than appeared upon the surface. -</p> -<p> -"I am informed," replied Goyu, gravely, "that there has been an -anti-foreign riot and that many are killed." -</p> -<p> -"And father?" gasped Ethel. -</p> -<p> -"He was upon the grain boat," said Goyu. -</p> -<p> -"But where is he now?" -</p> -<p> -"I do not know," returned Goyu, locking nervously over his shoulder. -"But I fear he has not fared well—the boat was dynamited—that's -what started the trouble." -</p> -<p> -With a gasp Ethel recalled that an hour before she had heard an -explosion which she had supposed to be blasting. Faint with fear, -she staggered toward a couch and fell forward upon the cushions. -</p> -<div style="height: 4em;"><hr></div> -<p> -When the girl regained consciousness the house was dark. Slowly she -recalled the event that had culminated the uneventful day. She -wondered if Goyu had been lying or had gone crazy. The darkness was -not reassuring—her father always came home before dark, and his -absence now confirmed her fears. She wondered if the old servant had -deserted her. He was a poor stick anyway; Japanese men who had pride -or character no longer worked as domestics in the households of -foreigners. -</p> -<p> -Ethel Calvert was the daughter of an American grain merchant who -represented the interests of the North American Grain Exporters -Association at the seaport of Otaru, in Hokaidi, the North Island of -Japan. Three years before her mother had died of homesickness and a -broken heart—although the Japanese physician had called it -tuberculosis, and had prescribed life in a tent! Had they not -suffered discomforts enough in that barbarous country without adding -insult to injury? -</p> -<p> -Ethel was bountifully possessed of the qualities of hothouse beauty. -Her jet black hair hung over the snowy skin of her temples in -striking contrast. Her form was of a delicate slenderness and her -movement easy and graceful with just a little of that languid -listlessness considered as a mark of well-bred femininity. She knew -that she was beautiful according to the standards of her own people -and her isolation from the swirl of the world's social life was to -her gall and wormwood. -</p> -<p> -The Calverts had never really "settled" in Japan, but had merely -remained there as homesick Americans indifferent to, or unjustly -prejudiced against the Japanese life about them. Now, in the year -1958, the growing anti-foreign feeling among the Japanese had added -to their isolation. Moreover, the Japanese bore the grain merchant -an especial dislike, for every patriotic Japanese was sore at heart -over the fact that, after a century of modern progress, Japan was -still forced to depend upon foreigners to supplement their food -supply. -</p> -<p> -In fact, they had oft heard Professor Oshima grieve over the -statistics of grain importation, as a speculator might mourn his -personal losses in the stock market. -</p> -<div style="height: 4em;"><hr></div> - -<p> -For a time Ethel lay still and listened to the faint sound of voices -from a neighboring porch. Then the growing horror of the situation -came over her with anewed force; if her father was dead, she was not -only alone in the world, but stranded in a foreign and an unfriendly -country; for there were but few Americans left in the city. -</p> -<p> -The girl arose and crept nervously into the dining-room. She turned -on the electric light; everything seemed in order. She hurried over -to Goyu's room, and knocked. There was no answer. Then slowly -opening the door, she peered in—the room was empty and disordered. -Plainly the occupant had bundled together his few belongings and -flown. -</p> -<p> -Ethel stole back through the silent house and tremblingly took down -the telephone receiver. In vain she called the numbers of the few -American families of the city. Last on the list was the American -Consulate, and this time she received the curt information that the -consul had left the city by aeroplane "with the other foreigners." -The phrase struck terror into her heart. If the European population -had flown in such haste as to overlook her, clearly there was -danger. A great fear grew upon her. Afraid to remain where she was, -she tried to think of ways of escape. She could not steer an -aeroplane even if she were able to obtain one. Otaru was far from -the common ways of international traffic and the ships lying at -anchor in the harbor were freighters, Japanese owned and Japanese -manned. -</p> -<p> -Ethel looked at her watch—it was nine-twenty. She tiptoed to her -room. -</p> -<p> -An hour later she was in the street dressed in a tailored suit of -American make and carrying in her hand-bag a few trinkets and -valuables she had found in the house. Passing hurriedly through -quiet avenues, she was soon in the open country. The road she -followed was familiar to her, as she had traveled it many times by -auto. -</p> -<p> -For hours she walked rapidly on. Her unpracticed muscles grew tired -and her feet jammed forward in high-heeled shoes were blistered and -sore. But fear lent courage and as the first rays of the morning sun -peeked over the hill-tops, the refugee reached the outskirts of the -city of Sapporo. -</p> -<p> -Ethel made straightway for the residence of Professor Oshima, the -Soil Chemist of the Imperial Agricultural College of Hokiado—a -Japanese gentleman who had been educated and who had married abroad, -and a close friend of her father's. As she reached the door of the -Professor's bungalow, she pushed the bell, and sank exhausted upon -the stoop. -</p> -<p> -Some time afterward she half-dreamed and half realized that she -found herself neatly tucked between white silk sheets and lying on a -floor mattress of a Japanese sleeping-porch. A gentle breeze fanned -her face through the lattice work and low slanting sunbeams sifting -in between the shutters fell in rounded blotches upon the opposite -straw matting wall. For a time she lay musing and again fell asleep. -</p> -<p> -When she next awakened, the room was dimly lighted by a little -glowing electric bulb and Madame Oshima was sitting near her. Her -hostess greeted her cordially and offered her water and some fresh -fruit. -</p> -<p> -Madame Oshima was fully posted upon the riots and confirmed Ethel's -fears as to the fate of her father. -</p> -<a name="image-0001"><!--IMG--></a> -<center> -<img src="images/56.jpg" alt="'But Have I Lost My Figure?' Inquired the Lithe -Madame Oshima."> -</center> -<!--IMAGE END--> -<p> -"You will be safe here for the present," her hostess assured her. -"Professor Oshima has been called to Tokio; when he returns we will -see what can be done concerning your embarking for America." -</p> -<p> -Madame Oshima was of French descent but had fully adopted Japanese -customs and ways of thinking. -</p> -<p> -As soon as Ethel was up and about, her hostess suggested that she -exchange her American-made clothing for the Japanese costume of the -time. But Ethel was inclined to rebel. -</p> -<p> -"Why," she protested, "if I discarded my corsets I would lose my -figure." -</p> -<p> -"But have I lost my figure?" inquired the lithe Madame Oshima, -striking an attitude. -</p> -<p> -To this Ethel did not reply, but continued, "And I would look like a -man," for among the Japanese people tight-belted waists and flopping -skirts had long since been replaced by the kimo, a single-piece -garment worn by both sexes and which fitted the entire body with -comfortable snugness. -</p> -<p> -"And is a man so ill-looking?" asked her companion, smiling. -</p> -<p> -"Why, no, of course not, only he's different. Why, I couldn't wear a -kimo—people would see—my limbs," stammered the properly-bred -American girl. -</p> -<p> -"Why, no, they couldn't," replied Madame Oshima. "Not if you keep -your kimo on." -</p> -<p> -"But they would see my figure." -</p> -<p> -"Well, I thought you just said that was what you were afraid they -wouldn't see." -</p> -<p> -"But I don't mean that way—they—they could see the shape of my—my -legs," said Ethel, blushing crimson. -</p> -<p> -"Are you ashamed that your body has such vulgar parts?" returned the -older woman. -</p> -<p> -"No, of course not," said Ethel, choking back her embarrassment. -"But it's wicked for a girl to let men know such things." -</p> -<p> -"Oh, they all know it," replied Madame Oshima, "they learn it in -school." -</p> -<p> -At this the highly strung Ethel burst into sobs. -</p> -<p> -"There, there now," said her companion, regretting that she had -spoken sarcastically. "I forget that I once had such ideas also. -We'll talk some more about it after while. You are nervous and -worried now and must have more rest." -</p> -<p> -The next day Madame Oshima more tactfully approached the subject and -showed her protege that while in Rome it was more modest to do as -the Romans do; and that, moreover, it was necessary for her own good -and theirs that she attract as little attention as possible, and to -those that recognized her Caucasian blood appear, superficially, at -least, as a naturalized citizen of Japan. -</p> -<p> -So, amid blushes and tears, protestations and laughter, Ethel -accepted the kimo, or one-piece Japanese garment, and the outer -flowing cloak to be worn on state occasions when freedom of bodily -movement was not required. Her feather-adorned hat was discarded -altogether and her ill-shapen high-heeled boots replaced by airy -slippers of braided fiber. -</p> -<p> -Her rather short stature and her hair—which fortunately enough was -black—served to lessen her conspicuousness, especially when dressed -in the fashion followed by Japanese girls; and with the leaving off -of the use of cosmetics and the spending of several hours a day in -the flower garden even her pallid complexion suffered rapid change. -</p> -<p> -It was about a fortnight before Professor Oshima returned from -Tokio. Upon his arrival Ethel at once pleaded with him to be sent to -America, but the scientist slowly shook his head. -</p> -<p> -"It is too late," he said; "there is going to be a war." -</p> -<p> -Thus it happened that Ethel Calvert was retained in the Professor's -family as a sort of English tutor to his children, and introduced as -a relative of his wife, and no one suspected that she was one of the -hated Americans. -</p> -<div style="height: 4em;"><hr></div> - -<p> -The trouble between Japan and the United States dated back to the -early part of the century. It was deep-seated and bitter, and was -not only the culmination of a rivalry between the leading nations of -the great races of mankind, but a rivalry between two great ideas or -policies that grew out in opposite directions from the age of -unprecedented mechanical and scientific progress that marked the -dawn of the twentieth century. -</p> -<p> -The pages of history had been turned rapidly in those years. The -United States, long known as the richest country, had also become -the most populous nation of the Caucasian world—and wealth and -population had made her vain. -</p> -<p> -But with all her material glory, there was not strength in American -sinews, nor endurance in her lungs, nor vigor in the product of her -loins. Her people were herded together in great cities, where they -slept in gigantic apartment houses, like mud swallows in a sand -bank. They overate of artificial food that was made in great -factories. They over-dressed with tight-fitting unsanitary clothing -made by the sweated labor of the diseased and destitute. They -over-drank of old liquors born of ancient ignorance and of new -concoctions born of prostituted science. They smoked and perfumed -and doped with chemicals and cosmetics—the supposed virtues of -which were blazoned forth on earth and sky day and night. -</p> -<p> -The wealth of the United States was enormous, yet it was chiefly in -the hands of the few. The laborers went forth from their rookeries -by subway and monorail, and served their shifts in the mills of -industry. -</p> -<p> -In turn, others took their places, and the mills ground night and -day. -</p> -<p> -Even the farm lands had been largely taken over by corporate -control. Crops on the plains were planted with power machinery. The -rough lands had all been converted into forests or game preserves -for the rich. Agriculture had been developed as a science, but not -as a husbandry. The forcing system had been generally applied to -plants and animals. Wonder-working nitrogenous fertilizers made at -Niagara and by the wave motors of the coast made all vegetation to -grow with artificial luxury. Corn-fed hogs and the rotund carcasses -of stall-fed cattle were produced on mammoth ranches for the -edification of mankind, and fowl were hatched by the billions in -huge incubators, and the chicks reared and slaughtered with scarcely -a touch of a human hand. And all this was under the control of -concentrated business organization. The old, sturdy, wasteful farmer -class had gone out of existence. -</p> -<p> -Only the rich who owned aeroplanes could afford to live in the -country. The poor had been forced to the cities where they could be -sheltered <i>en masse</i>, and fed, as it were, by machinery. New York -had a population of twenty-three millions. Manhattan Island had been -extended by filling in the shallows of the bay, until the Battery -reached almost to Staten Island. The aeroplane stations that topped -her skyscrapers stood, many of them, a quarter of a mile from the -ground. -</p> -<p> -As the materially greatest nation in the world, the United States -had an enormous national patriotism based on vanity. The larger -patriotism for humanity was only known in the prattle of her -preachers and idealists. America was the land of liberty—and -liberty had come to mean the right to disregard the rights of -others. -</p> -<p> -In Japan, too, there had been changes, but Japan had received the -gifts of science in a far different spirit. With her, science had -been made to serve the more ultimate needs of the race, rather than -the insane demand for luxuries. -</p> -<p> -The Japanese had applied to the human species the scientific -principles of heredity, nutrition and physical development, which in -America had been confined to plants and animals. The old spirit of -Japanese patriotism had grown into a semi-religious worship of -racial fitness and a moral pride developed which eulogized the -sacrifice of the liberties of the individual to the larger needs of -the people. Legal restrictions of the follies of fashion in dress -and food, the prohibition of alcohol and narcotics, the restriction -of unwise marriages, and the punishments of immorality were -stoically accepted, not as the blue laws of religious fanaticism, -but as requisites of racial progress and a mark of patriotism. -</p> -<p> -And while Japan showed no signs of the extravagant wealth seen in -America, she was far from being poor. She had gained little from -centralized and artificial industry, but she had wasted less in -insane competition and riotous luxury. -</p> -<p> -But in Japanese life there was one unsolved problem. That was her -food supply. Intensive culture would do wonders and the just -administration of wealth and the physical efficiency of her people -had eliminated the waste of supporting the non-productive, but an -acre is but a small piece of land at most, and Japan had long since -passed the point where the number of her people exceeded the number -of her acres. A quarter of an acre would produce enough grain and -coarse vegetables to keep a man alive, but the Japanese wanted eggs -and fruit and milk for their children; and they wanted cherry trees -and chrysanthemums, lotus ponds and shady gardens with little -waterfalls. -</p> -<a name="image-0002"><!--IMG--></a> -<center> -<img src="images/58.jpg" alt="In the Nineteenth Month of The War, The Emblem Of The -Rising Sun Was Hoisted over Manila. -"> -</center> -<!--IMAGE END--> -<p> -Now if the low birth rate that had resulted when the examinations -for parenthood were first enforced had continued, Japan would not -have been so crowded, but after the first generation of marriage -restriction the percentage of those who reached the legal standard -of fitness was naturally increased. The scientists and officials had -from time to time considered the advisability of increasing the -restrictions—and yet why should they? The Japanese people had -submitted to the prohibition of the marriage of the unfit, but they -loved children; and, with their virile outdoor life, the instinct of -procreation was strong within them. True, the assignable lands in -Japan continued to grow smaller, but what reason was there for -stifling the reproductive instincts of a vigorous people in a great -unused world half populated by a degenerate humanity? -</p> -<p> -So Japan was land hungry—not for lands to conquer, as of old, nor -yet for lands to exploit commercially, but for food and soil and -breathing space for her children. -</p> -<p> -Among opponents of Japanese racial expansion, the United States was -the greatest offender. Japanese immigration had long since been -forbidden by the United States, and American diplomats had more -recently been instrumental in bringing about an agreement among the -powers of Europe by which all outlets were locked against the -overflowing stream of Asiatic population. -</p> -<p> -Indeed, America called Japan the yellow peril; and with her own -prejudices to maintain, her institutions of graft and exploitation -to fatten her luxury-loving lords and her laborers to appease, she -was in mortal terror of the simple efficiency of the Japanese people -who had taken the laws of Nature into their own hands and shaped -human evolution by human reason. -</p> -<p> -As Commodore Perry had forced the open door of commerce upon Japan a -century before, so Japan decided to force upon America the -acknowledgment of any human being's right to live in any land on -earth. She had tried first by peaceful means to secure these ends, -but failing here and driven on by the lash of her own necessity, -Japan had come to feel that force alone could break the clannish -resistance of the Anglo-Saxon, who having gone into the four corners -of the earth and forced upon the world his language, commerce and -customs, now refused to receive ideas or citizens in return. -</p> -<p> -And thus it came to pass that the West and the East were in the -clutch of the War-God. No one knew just what the war would be like, -for the wars of the last century had been bluffing, bulldozing -affairs concerning trade agreements or Latin-American revolutions. -There had been no great clash of great ideas and great peoples. -</p> -<p> -The harbors of the world were filled with huge, floating, -flat-topped battleships, within the capacious interiors of which -were packed the parts of aeroplanes as were the soldiers of the -Grecian army in their wooden horse at Troy, for assembling and -launching them. But the engines of warfare which men had repeatedly -claimed would make war so terrible as to end war, had failed to -fulfill anticipations. The means of defense and the rules of the -game had kept pace with the means of destruction. The flat tops of -the warships, which served as alighting platforms for friendly -planes, were heavily armored against missiles dropped from -unfriendly ones. The explosion of a bomb on top of a plate of steel -is a rather tame affair, and guns sufficient to penetrate armor -plate could not be carried on air-craft. The big guns of -battleships, which had for a time grown bigger and bigger, had now -gone quite out of use, for the coming of the armored top had been -followed by the toad-stool warship, which had a roof like an -inverted saucer, and was provided with water chambers, the opening -of the traps of which caused a sudden sinking of the vessel until -the eave dipped beneath the water level and left exposed only the -sloping roof from which the heaviest shot would glance like a bullet -from the frozen surface of a pond. -</p> -<p> -The first two years of war dragged on in the Pacific. American grain -was of course cut off from Japan and the government authorities -ordered the people to plow up their flower gardens and plant food -crops. -</p> -<p> -The Americans had too much territory to protect to take the -offensive and their Pacific fleet lay close to Manila, where, with -the help of land aviation forces, they hoped to hold the possession -of the islands, which according to the popular American view was -supposed to be the prize for which the Japanese had gone to war. -</p> -<p> -The test of the actual warfare proved several things upon which -mankind had long been in doubt. One of these was that, with all the -expert mechanism that science and invention had supplied, the -personal equation of the man could not be eliminated. Aviation -increased the human element in warfare. To shoot straight requires -calm nerves, but to fly straight requires also agility and -endurance. -</p> -<p> -The American aeroplanes were made of steel and aluminum, and when -they hit the water they sank like lead, but the Japanese planes were -made of silk and bamboo, and their engines were built with multiple -compartment air tanks and after a battle the Japanese picked up the -floating engines and placed them, ready to use, in inexpensive new -planes. -</p> -<div style="height: 4em;"><hr></div> -<p> -In the nineteenth month of the war, Manila surrendered, and the -emblem of the rising sun was hoisted throughout the Philippine -Islands. The remnant of the American fleet retreated across the -Pacific, and the world supposed that the war was over. -</p> -<p> -But Japan refused the American proposals of peace, which conceded -them the Philippines, unless the United States be also opened to -universal immigration. And so it was that when Japan, in addition to -accepting the Philippines, demanded the right to settle her cheap -labor in the United States, the American authorities cut short the -peace negotiation and began concentrating troops and battleships -along the Pacific Coast in fear of an invasion of California. -</p> -<div style="height: 4em;"><hr></div> - -<p> -With Ethel Calvert's adoption into Professor Oshima's family there -came a great change in her life. At first, she accepted Japanese -food and Japanese clothes as the old-time prisoner accepted stripes -and bread and water. But her captivity proved less repulsive than -she expected and she was soon confessing to herself that there was -much good in Japanese life. Professor and Madame Oshima were not -talkative on general topics but the books on the shelves of the -Professor's library proved a godsend to the awakening mind of the -young woman. Indeed, after a mental diet of French and English -fiction upon which Ethel had been reared, the works on science and -humaniculture, the dreams of universal brotherhood, the epics of a -race in its conquests of disease and poverty were as meat and drink -to her eager, hungry mind. -</p> -<p> -As the war went on, the horror of it all grew upon her. She read -Howki's "America." She didn't believe it all, but she realized that -most of it was true. She wondered why her people were fighting to -keep out the Japanese. She marvelled that the Japanese who had -adopted such lofty ideals of race culture could find the heart to go -to war. She wished she might be free to go to the government -officials at Tokio and Washington to show them the folly of it all. -Surely if the American statesmen understood Japanese ideals and the -superiority of their habits and customs for the production of happy -human beings, they would never have waged war to keep them out of -the States. -</p> -<div style="height: 4em;"><hr></div> - -<p> -"In three days we leave Japan," said Professor Oshima, as he sat -down to dinner one evening in the early part of April, 1960. -</p> -<p> -"All?" asked Komoru, the Professor's secretary. -</p> -<p> -"We four," replied Oshima, indicating those at the table, "the -children will stay with my mother. I'll need your assistance, and as -for Miss Ethel, she cannot well stay here, so I have had you two -listed. Although it's a little irregular, I am sure it will not be -questioned, for I know more about American soils than any other man -in Japan." -</p> -<p> -Ethel glanced apprehensively at Komoru. She had never quite -understood her own attitude toward that taciturn young Japanese whom -she had seen daily for two years without hardly making his -acquaintance. She admired him and yet she feared him. -</p> -<p> -Professor Oshima was saying that she had been "listed" with Komoru -for some great journey. What did it mean? What could she do? Again -she looked up at the secretary; but far from seeing any trace of -scheme or plot in his enigmatical countenance, she found him to be -considering the situation with the same equanimity with which he -would have recorded the calcium content of a soil sample. -</p> -<p> -As for Professor and Madame Oshima, they seemed equally unruffled -about the proposed journey, and not at all inclined to elucidate the -mystery. Experience had taught the younger woman that when -information was not offered it was unwise to ask questions, so when -the Professor busied himself with much ransacking of his pamphlets -and papers and his wife became equally occupied with overhauling the -family wardrobe and getting the children off to their grandmother's, -Ethel accepted unquestionably the statement that she would be -limited to twenty kilograms of clothing and ten kilograms of other -personal effects, and lent assistance as best she could to the -enterprise in hand. -</p> -<p> -On the third day the little party, with their light luggage boarded -a train for Hakodate, at which point they arrived at noon. Hurrying -along the docks among others burdened like themselves, they came to -a great low-lying, turtle-topped warship; and, passing down a -gangway, entered the brilliantly lighted interior. -</p> -<p> -The constant flood of new passengers came, not in mixed and motley -groups, as the ordinary crowd of passengers, but by two, male and -female, as the unclean beasts into the ark. And they were all young -in years and athletic in frame—the very cream and flower of the -race. -</p> -<a name="image-0003"><!--IMG--></a> -<center> -<img src="images/61.jpg" alt="Every Few Seconds an Aeroplane Shot Into the Air And -Joined the Endless Winged Line. -"> -</center> -<!--IMAGE END--> -<p> -Late that evening the vessel steamed out of port, and during the -next two days was joined by a host of other war craft, and the great -squadron moved in orderly procession to the eastward. -</p> -<p> -One point, that Ethel soon discovered was that, in addition to being -excellent physical specimens, all the men, and many of the women, -were proficient as aviators. Of these facts life on board bore ample -evidence, for the great fan ventilated gymnasium was the most -conspicuous part of the ship's equipment and here in regular drills -and in free willed disportive exercise those on board kept -themselves from stagnation during the idleness of the voyage. Into -this gymnasium work Ethel entered with great gusto, for there was a -revelation in the discovery of her own physical capabilities that -surprised and fascinated her. -</p> -<p> -In the other chief interest of her fellow passengers, Ethel was an -apt pupil, for though woefully ignorant of aviation, she was eager -to learn. She spent many hours in the company of Professor or Madame -Oshima, studying aeroplane construction and operation from the -displayed mechanisms on board. In fact, they found the great roomy -hold of the ship was packed with aeroplane parts. Small gasoline -turbines were stored in crates by the hundreds; also wings and -rudders knocked down and laid flat against each other and still -lower down in the framework of the floating palace were vast stores -of gasoline. -</p> -<p> -At the end of two weeks the Japanese squadron was in latitude 34° -north, longitude 125° west, and headed directly for the Los Angeles -district of Southern California—the richest and most densely -populated area of the United States. -</p> -<p> -One evening, just at dark, after they had been in sight of the -American aerial scouts all day, the Japanese fleet changed its -course and turned sharply to the southward. Now Panama was six days' -steaming from Los Angeles and less than three days from New Orleans. -So the authorities at Washington ordered all warships and available -soldiers on the Gulf Coast to embark for the Isthmus. -</p> -<p> -Meanwhile there was much going on beneath the armor plate of the -Japanese transports, and on the fourth day of their southward -movement the great trap doors were swung down and aeroplane parts -were run out on the tramways, the planes rapidly set up by skilled -workmen, and firmly hooked to the floor. Above and below deck they -stood in great rows like lines of automobiles in a garage. -</p> -<p> -Towards sundown the forward planes were manned and in quick -succession shot down the runways and took to the air. Ethel and her -companions were below air the time and hardly knew what was going -on. Their luggage had been taken up some time ago, except for an -extra kima, which they had been ordered to put on. In their turn -they were now called out and ordered to go above, that is, the names -of the men were called and Ethel knew that she was listed as Madame -Komoru, a thing that made her shiver every time it was brought to -her attention. -</p> -<p> -An exclamation or astonishment escaped the lips of the more -impulsive American girl as she came on deck; for as far as the eye -could see the gray flat tops of the war vessels were covered with -the drab-winged planes, while every few seconds a plane shot into -the air and joined an endless winged line that stretched away to the -northeast. -</p> -<p> -"Komoru eighty-five: Oshima eighty-six." -</p> -<p> -The intent of that command was clear and Ethel was soon settled -immediately behind the young secretary in the little bamboo car of a -Japanese plane-of-war. -</p> -<p> -The propeller started with a shrill musical hum; they raced down the -runway; dipped for a second toward the water; rose, and sailed -swiftly up and on toward the dark line of Mexico, that lay in the -evening shadow cast by the curved surface of the Pacific Ocean. -</p> -<p class="blurb"> -(To be continued.) -</p> -<a name="2H_PART"><!-- H2 anchor --></a> - -<div style="height: 4em;"><br><br><br><br></div> - -<h2> -PART TWO. -</h2> -<p class="blurb"> -Synopsis of Previous Installment: In the year -1958, Ethel Calvert, a daughter of an American -grain-merchant, residing in Japan, because of her -father's death in an anti-foreign riot, is forced -to take refuge with Madame Oshima, the French wife -of a Japanese scientist. She becomes accustomed to -the mode of living followed by the Japanese, and -is finally persuaded to adopt the costume of the -land of her exile. War is declared between Japan -and the United States, and Professor Oshima, and -Komoru, his Secretary, together with Madame Oshima -and Ethel Calvert, sail for United States in a -Japanese war vessel. When near the Pacific Coast, -the many men and women who have been passengers on -the vessel, leave the ship by means of aeroplanes, -and sail eastwardly over Southern California. -</p> -<p> -The air cut by Ethel's face at a ninety-mile gait, and she gripped -nervously at the hand-rails of the car. Then, regaining confidence, -she began to drink in the novel view about her. Ahead were the -drab-winged aeroplanes growing smaller and smaller until they became -mere specks against the darkening sky. She turned to the rear and -watched the myriads of humans, like birds, rising from the -transports that still lay in the sunshine. There were literally -thousands of them. She wondered if human eyes had ever before -witnessed so marvelous a sight. -</p> -<p> -They had come over the mainland of Mexico now and were flying at a -height of about half a mile. Shrouded in the tropical twilight, the -landscape below was but dimly discernible. As the darkness came on, -Ethel discovered that a small light glowed from the side of the car -in front of the driver. Gripping the hand-rail, she made bold to -raise herself; and, stopping beneath the searchlight and machine-gun -that hung, one beneath the other, on swivels in the center of the -framework, she peered forward over Komoru's shoulder. -</p> -<p> -The taciturn steersman turned and smiled but said nothing. Ethel -noted carefully the equipment of the driver's box. It was a -duplicate throughout of the dummy steering gear with which she had -practiced in the ship's gymnasium. One conspicuous addition, -however, was an object illuminated by the small glow lamp that had -attracted her attention. This proved to be chart or map mounted at -either end on short rollers. As the girl watched it, she perceived -that it moved slowly. A red line was drawn across the map and -hovering over this was the tip of a metal pointer. A compass and a -watch were mounted at one side of the chart case. -</p> -<p> -Ethel watched the chart creep back on its rollers and reasoned that -the pointer indicated the location of the aeroplane. She wondered -how the movement of the chart was regulated with that of the plane. -Finally she decided to ask Komoru. -</p> -<p> -"By the landmarks and the time," he said. "Do you see that blue -coming in on the northeast corner of the map?" -</p> -<p> -"Yes." -</p> -<p> -"Well, watch it." -</p> -<p> -After a few minutes of waiting the words "<i>Gulf of Mexico</i>" rolled -out upon the chart. "Why, that can't be," said Ethel, "we just left -the Pacific Ocean." -</p> -<p> -"But we have crossed the Isthmus of Tehauntepec," replied Komoru; -"it is only a hundred miles wide." -</p> -<p> -His companion looked over the side of the car and to the front and. -to the right, she could see by the perfectly flat horizon that they -were approaching water. -</p> -<p> -"The map is unrolling too fast," said Komoru, as the pointer stood -over the edge of the indicated water—and he pushed back the little -lever on the clock mechanism that rolled the chart. "We have a -little head wind," he added. -</p> -<p> -Ethel resumed her seat and sat musing for a half hour or so. Komoru -looked around and called to her. -</p> -<p> -"Look over to your left," he said. "The lights of Vera Cruz. We are -making better time now," he added, again adjusting the regulator on -the clock work. -</p> -<p> -The driver contemplated his compass carefully and shifted his course -a few points to the right. Ethel settled in her bamboo cage and -pulled her aviation cap down tightly to shield her face and ears -from the wind pressure. -</p> -<p> -For hours they sat so—the girl's heart throbbing with awe, wonder -and fear; the man unemotional and silent, a steady, firm hand on the -wheel, his feet on the engine controls and his goggled eyes glancing -critically at compass or watch or out into the starlit waste of the -night, disturbed only by the whirl and shadow of other planes which -with varying speed passed or were passed, as the aerial host rushed -onward. There were only small tail lights, one above and one below -the main plane, to warn following drivers against collision. -</p> -<div style="height: 4em;"><hr></div> - -<p> -With her head bent low upon her knees, Ethel at length fell into a -doze. She was aroused by Komoru's calling, and straightening up with -a start, she arose and leaned forward over the driver. Komoru was -looking intently at the scroll chart. In a moment she designed the -cause of his interest, for there had rolled across the forward -surface of the chart the outline of a coast. -</p> -<p> -In the far left-hand corner was marked the city of Galveston, and to -the right was the Sabine River that forms the boundary between Texas -and Louisiana. Ethel raised her eyes from the map and looked far out -to the Northwest. Sure enough, she discerned the lights of a city at -the point where Galveston was indicated by the chart. -</p> -<p> -"How far have we come?" she asked in astonishment. -</p> -<p> -"Eight hundred miles," replied Komoru. "See, it is nearly -two-thirty. The first men with the faster planes were to have -arrived at one o'clock." -</p> -<p> -A little later they passed over the dimly discernible coast line, -some thirty or forty miles to the east of Galveston. Komoru -carefully consulted his compass, watch and aneroid, and made a -slight change in his course. -</p> -<p> -"Where do we land?" asked the girl. -</p> -<p> -Komoru steadied the wheel with one hand; and, reaching into the -breast pocket of his aviator's jacket, he produced a little -document-like roll. "These are the orders," he explained, and asked -Ethel to spread out the papers on the chart case. -</p> -<p> -The instruction sheet read: -</p> -<p class="blurb"> -"Fly twenty-eight minutes beyond the coast line, -which will place you ten or twenty miles northwest -of the town of Beaumont, where a fire of some sort -will be lighted about 3 a.m. -</p> -<p class="blurb"> -"When you alight locate one or more farm houses -and attach one of the enclosed notices to the -door. -</p> -<p class="blurb"> -"This done, fly toward the Beaumont signal fire -and assist in subduing the town and capturing all -petroleum works in the region. -</p> -<p class="blurb"> -"At 6 a.m., if petroleum works are safe, follow -the lead of the red plane and fly northwest as far -as Fort Worth, returning by nightfall to oil -region." -</p> -<p> -Ethel read the paper over and over as she held it down out of the -wind by the dim glow lamp. She wanted to ask questions. She wondered -what was expected of her. She wondered again as to what was expected -of the entire invasion and why the women had been brought along. But -her questions did not find verbal expression, for she had schooled -herself to await developments. -</p> -<p> -The roller chart had now come to a stop and showed the red line that -marked their course terminating in a cross to the northwest of the -town of Beaumont. Komoru tilted the plane downward and flew for a -time near the earth. Then checking the speed, he ran it lightly -aground in an open field a little distance from a clump of -buildings. -</p> -<p> -The driver got out and stretched his cramped limbs. Taking a hand -glow lamp he ran carefully over the mechanism of the plane. Then he -opened a locker and took out two small magazine pistols. One he -handed to Ethel. -</p> -<p> -"Don't use it," he said, "until you have to." -</p> -<p> -"Will you go with me?" he asked, "to tack the poster, or will you -stay with the plane?" -</p> -<p> -"I'll stay here," she replied. -</p> -<p> -Komoru walked off rapidly towards the house. Presently the stillness -was interrupted by the vociferous barking of a dog; Then there was a -sound as of some one picking a taut wire and the voice of the dog -curdled in a final yelp. -</p> -<p> -In a few minutes Komoru was back. "Dogs are no good," he said; "they -produce nothing but noise." -</p> -<p> -"Will you kindly get aboard, Miss Ethel? There is much to do." -</p> -<a name="image-0004"><!--IMG--></a> -<center> -<img src="images/161.jpg" -alt="By Carefully Shielding his Flash Lamp, Komoru Was -Able to Read a Duplicate of the Notice he Had Just Fastened Up. -"> -</center> -<!--IMAGE END--> -<p> -Ethel obeyed; meanwhile Komoru inspected the surface of the ground -for a few yards in front of the plane. Returning he climbed into his -seat and started the engine. They arose without mishap. -</p> -<p> -Within a mile or two, Komoru picked out another farm house and made -a landing nearby. -</p> -<p> -"I will go with you this time," said Ethel courageously. -</p> -<p> -Approaching an American residence, Ethel suddenly found herself -conscious of the fact that she was dressed in a most unladylike -Japanese kimo. For a moment the larger sentiments of the occasion -were replaced by the womanly query, "What will people say?" Then she -laughed inwardly at the absurdity of her thought. -</p> -<p> -Komoru produced the roll from his pocket and unwound a small cloth -poster. This he fastened to the door jam by pressing in the thumb -tacks that were sewed in the hem. Then noting another white blotch -on the opposite side of the door, he carefully shielded his lamp, -and made a light. It was a duplicate of the notice he had just -fastened up and read: -</p> -<center> -WARNING -</center> -<p class="blurb"> -"Two hundred thousand Japanese have invaded Texas -and are desirous of possessing your property. You -are respectfully requested to depart immediately -and apply to your government for property -elsewhere. All buildings not vacated within -twenty-four hours will be promptly burned—unless -displaying a flag truce for sufficient reason. -Kindly co-operate with us in avoiding bloodshed. -</p> -<p class="blurb"> - (Signed) The Japanese People." -</p> -<p> -"We were late," said Komoru as they walked back toward the plane. -"Two hundred thousand," he mused; "what you call 'bluff,' I guess." -</p> -<p> -"It's growing light," said Ethel, as they reached the plane. -</p> -<p> -"Yes, a little," replied Komoru, as he walked around to the front. -"An ugly ditch," he said. "We shall have to use the helicopter." -</p> -<p> -Taking his seat he threw down a lever and what had appeared to be -two small superimposed planes above the main plane assumed the form -of flat screws. Letting the engine gain full headway, Komoru threw -the clutch on this shafting, and the vertical screws started -revolving in opposite directions with a great downward rush of air. -The whole apparatus tilted a bit, and then slowly but steadily -arose. -</p> -<p> -When they had reached altitude of a hundred feet or so, the driver -shifted the power to the quieter horizontal propeller and the plane -sidled off like an eagle dropping from a crag. -</p> -<p> -Tilting the plane upward, Komoru circled for altitude. Presently he -called back over his shoulder, saying that he saw the signal fire at -Beaumont at the same time heading the plane in that direction. -</p> -<p> -As the dawn began to break in the East, the occasional passing -lights of flying planes became less bright and soon the planes -themselves stood out against the sky like shadows. And then the -whole majestic train of aerial invaders became visible as they -poured over the southern horizon—-a never ending stream. -</p> -<p> -Komoru and Ethel landed in a meadow already well filled with planes -and following the others, hurried along toward the town. -</p> -<p> -There had been some fighting in the streets and a few buildings were -burning. Walking along to the main street of the town, they came -upon a crowd of Japanese who were collected in front of a building -from which the contents were being dragged hastily. -</p> -<p> -"What is it?" asked Komoru of one of the men. -</p> -<p> -"Hardware store," replied the other; "we've rifled all of them for -the weapons and explosives." -</p> -<p> -"Where are all the people?" asked Ethel. "The Americans—are they -killed or captured?" -</p> -<p> -"They are at home in their houses," answered the man, who seemed -well posted. "I was with the first squad to arrive. We captured the -policemen and then took the telephone switchboard. Japanese -operators are in there now. They have called up every one in town -and explained the situation, and advised the people to stay indoors, -telling them that every house would be burned from which people -emerged or shots were fired. The operators are working on the rural -numbers yet. We hold the telegraph also, and are sending out -exaggerated reports of the size of the Japanese invasion." -</p> -<div style="height: 4em;"><hr></div> - -<p> -A man wearing a blue sash came hurrying up. He stopped before the -group at the hardware store and gestured for silence. -</p> -<p> -"The town is well in hand," he said, "and only those of you who are -detailed here as guards need remain longer; the others will get back -to their planes and await the rise of their designated leaders for -the flights of the day. -</p> -<p> -"Come," said Komoru to his companion. But Ethel did not move. Her -mind was racked with perplexity. Here she was in a city of her own -people. Why should she continue to accompany this young Japanese -whom, despite his gentlemanly conduct, she instinctively feared? Yet -what else could she do? She was dressed in the peculiar attire of -the invaders, and would certainly have trouble in convincing an -American of her identity. -</p> -<a name="image-0005"><!--IMG--></a> -<center> -<img src="images/163.jpg" -alt="As They Passed Near Other Planes, Ethel Noted That In -Many Cases the Women Were Driving. -"> -</center> -<!--IMAGE END--> -<p> -"I must ask you to hurry," said Komoru, as the others moved off. -With an effort Ethel gathered her wavering emotions in hand and went -with him. If she must go, she reasoned it were well not to arouse -Komoru's suspicion of her loyalty. -</p> -<p> -A few minutes later they were again in the air, following the lead -of a plane with bright red wings—the flag-ship, as it were, of the -group. -</p> -<p> -In a half hour the expedition was approaching Houston. Coming over -the city, the leader circled high and waited until his followers -were better massed. -</p> -<p> -"Are we going to attack the town?" inquired Ethel, as Komoru asked -her for the water-bottle. -</p> -<p> -"Oh, no," he replied, "nothing of the sort; we are simply bluffing. -There are a number of expeditions going out to-day. We must make the -appearance of a great invasion." -</p> -<p> -"How many planes are there all told?" -</p> -<p> -Komoru smiled. "Not so many," he said. -</p> -<p> -"But how many?" persisted Ethel. -</p> -<p> -"Fifteen thousand, maybe," Komoru replied. -</p> -<p> -"To invade a country with nearly two hundred million inhabitants! We -will surely all be killed." -</p> -<p> -Komoru smiled. -</p> -<p> -"By sheer force of numbers," explained Ethel. -</p> -<p> -"Wait and see," replied her enigmatical companion. -</p> -<p> -For hours the little aerial squadron sailed through the balmy air of -Texas. They passed over Austin and Waco and Fort Worth and Dallas. -They turned eastward and passed over Texarkana, and thence south to -impress the people of Shreveport. -</p> -<p> -The excitement evinced in the towns increased as the news of their -flight was wired ahead. They were frequently shot at by groups of -excited citizens or occasional companies of militia, but at the -height and speed at which they were flying the bullets went wide. -One plane was lost. Something must have snapped. It doubled up and -went tumbling downward like a wounded pigeon. -</p> -<p> -The sun was dropping toward the western horizon. The invaders had -been flying for ten hours. They had been without food or sleep for -thirty-six hours. Save for the brief relaxation of the morning, -Komoru had not taken his hands from the steering wheel, nor his foot -from the engine control since the previous sunset in the Bay of -Tehauntepec. -</p> -<a name="image-0006"><!--IMG--></a> -<center> -<img src="images/164.jpg" -alt="The Two Women of Aryan Blood Worked Together in The -Cotton Field Side by Side With the Orientals. -"> -</center> -<!--IMAGE END--> -<p> -As they passed near other planes, Ethel noted that in many cases the -women were driving. Notwithstanding her dislike for him, the girl -found herself wishing that she could relieve Komoru. -</p> -<p> -She pondered over his "wait and see" and began to discern a new -possibility in an invasion of thirty thousand Japanese. She tried to -imagine one of the society favorites of her Chicago girlhood sitting -in front of her driving that plane. She remembered distinctly that -aeroplane racing was a part of the diversion of such men and that -five or six hours of driving was considered quite a feat. -</p> -<p> -The more she considered the man before her, the more she marvelled -at his powers. She confessed he interested her; she wondered why she -disliked him. The only answer that seemed acceptable was that he was -"not her kind." -</p> -<p> -Towards dusk, they hove in sight of the derricks of the Beaumont oil -region. The leader with the red plane descended in a large meadow. -Komoru was well to the front and brought his plane to earth a few -meters from the red wings. The man in the flag plane who had that -day led them over a thousand miles and a score of cities got out and -stretched himself. With an exclamation of joyful surprise, Ethel -recognized that he was Professor Oshima. -</p> -<p> -The Japanese camped where they were for the night. The wings of the -planes were guyed to the ground with cordage and little steel -stakes. Beneath such improvised tents the tired aerial cavalrymen -rolled themselves in their sleeping blankets and for twelve hours -the camp was as quiet as a graveyard. -</p> -<p> -That day had been a great day in history; it was the first -consequential aerial invasion that the world had ever known. While -the arrivals of the morning had been circling in fear-inspiring -flights above the neighboring states, the later starters from the -Japanese squadron had continued to arrive in the oil regions. Like -migrating birds, they settled down over the rich fields and grazing -lands of that wonderful strip of flat, black-soiled prairie that -stretches westward from the south center of Louisiana until it -emerges into the great semi-arid cattle plains of southern Texas. -</p> -<p> -The region, though one of the richest in the United States, was but -sparsely settled. Save for the few thousand white laborers who were -supported by the oil industry, the whole resident population were -negroes who were worked under imported white foremen in the rice and -truck lands of the region. -</p> -<p> -The negroes were panic stricken by the Japanese invasion and made -practically no resistance. In two or three days, the country for a -forty-mile radius around Beaumont was cleared of Americans and -practically the entire oil region of Texas with its vast storage -tanks at Port Arthur on the Sabine River, were in the hands of the -invaders. -</p> -<p> -There were not ten regiments of American soldiers within five -hundred miles. The great mass of the American army had been rushed -weeks before to southern California, and the remnant left in the -Gulf region had more recently been hastened to Panama. In fact, the -American squadron had steamed into Colon on the very morning the -Japanese alighted on Texas soil. -</p> -<p> -On the second morning of their arrival, Japanese officials circling -above the captured region, roughly allotted the land to Captains -under whose leadership were a hundred planes each. The captains then -assigned each couple places to stake their plane, which were located -a hundred meters apart, allowing to each about two and a half acres -of land. -</p> -<p> -Professor Oshima and Komoru, as soil chemists, were constantly on -the go making studies of the land and advising with the other -experts as to the crops to plant, and the methods of tillage for the -various locations. -</p> -<p> -In the cotton lands, where Ethel and her associates were located, -the soil was immediately put to a fuller use. The cotton plants were -thinned and pruned and between the rows quick growing vegetables -were planted. Elsewhere the great pastures were broken up with -captured kerosene-driven gang plows and by dint of hard labor the -sod was quickly reduced to a fit state for intensive cultivation. -</p> -<p> -The outside work of the professor and his secretary threw Ethel -altogether in the company of Madame Oshima. For this fact she was -very grateful, as her aversion to Komoru, to whom she was nominally -bound, grew more and more a source of worry and fear. So the two -women of Aryan blood worked together in the cotton field side by -side with the Orientals—worked and waited and wondered what was -awing in the surrounding world. -</p> -<p> -The gasoline wagons came around and refilled the fuel tanks of the -planes. Mechanics inspected the engines carefully and replaced -defective parts. The rice cakes and soyu brought from Japan, had -been replaced by a diet of wheat and maize products and fresh fruits -and vegetables taken from the captured stores and gardens. Such -captured foods, however, had all been inspected by the dieteticians, -and those of doubtful wholesomeness destroyed or placed under lock -and key to be used only as a last resort. -</p> -<p> -Thus weeks passed. The green things of Japanese planting had poked -their tender shoots through the black American soil. There had been -no fighting except in few cases, where a company of foolhardy -militia or a local posse had tried to attach the Japanese outposts. -American aeroplanes had wisely staid away. -</p> -<p> -But the fight was yet to come. The Federal Government had recalled -its ships from Panama and was bringing back the soldiers from -California. On the great flat prairie between Galveston and Houston, -a mighty military camp was being established. Aeroplane sheds were -erected and repair shops built. Long lines of army tents were -pitched in close proximity. Army canteens were established that the -thirsty soldiers might get pure liquor and good tobacco and a few -rods away—over the line—other grog shops were opened wherein were -sold similar goods not so guaranteed. Gambling sharks arrived and -set up shell games and bedraggled prostitutes—outcasts from urban -centers of debauchery—-came and camped nearby and made night -hideous with their obscene revelry. -</p> -<p> -So the American soldier prepared for battle against the enemy who, -fifty miles away, slept undisturbed in the midst of gardens beneath -the wings of their aeroplanes. -</p> -<p> -Never since Roman phalanx moved against the hordes of disorganized -barbarians had such extremes of method in warfare been pitted -against each other. Indeed it is doubtful if the invasion of the -Japanese should be called war at all. They were not blood-thirsty. -In fact, the Japanese invaders had sent word to the American -Government asserting their peaceful intentions if they were -unmolested, though threatening dire vengeance by firing cities and -poisoning water supplies if they were attacked. -</p> -<p> -Madame Oshima shook her head. "Such talk is only pretense," she -said, "the Japanese intend to live in America and would never so -embitter the people—and it will not be necessary." -</p> -<p> -Ethel was in doubt. She pictured the Japanese planes flying above -the unprotected inland cities dropping conflagration bombs upon -shingled roof or casks of prussic acid into open reservoirs. She -wished she were out of it all. She wanted to escape and yet she knew -not how. -</p> -<p> -The Americans made no hasty attacks. They feared the threats of the -Japanese and awaited the gathering of many hundred thousand -soldiers. At the end of four weeks the American army was spread in a -giant semi-circle surrounding the Japanese encampment from coast to -coast. Along the Gulf Coast was also a line of American battleships, -so that the Japanese encampment was entirely surrounded with an -almost continuous line of aeroplane destroying guns. -</p> -<p> -All preparations were at last complete and with cavalry beneath and -aeroplanes above, the American strategists planned a dash across the -Japanese territory with the belief that the outlying lines of -artillery would bring to earth those that succeeded in getting into -the air. -</p> -<div style="height: 4em;"><hr></div> - -<p> -One evening at the hour of twilight, messengers passed rapidly among -the Japanese distributing maps and orders to prepare for flight. -</p> -<p> -Late that night, their possessions made ready for flight, Komoru and -Ethel sat with Professor and Madame Oshima beneath the latter's -plane. -</p> -<p> -"Our scouts have come to the conclusion," said Oshima, "that a -cavalry attack is to be expected in the early morning. So our plan -is for a signal plane to rise at two o'clock directly over the -center of our territory. It will carry a bright yellow light. -Beginning with the outlying groups our forces are to fly toward the -light, rising as they go. Attaining an altitude of two miles they -are thence to fly due north as our maps show. We will suffer some -loss, but two miles high and at night I guess American gunners will -not inflict great damage." -</p> -<p> -Ethel shuddered. -</p> -<p> -"Do you think the American aviators will follow us?" asked Komoru. -</p> -<p> -"That depends," replied the older man, "upon the reception we give -them; we have them outnumbered." -</p> -<p> -"They carry men gunners," said Madame Oshima. -</p> -<p> -"So," said the Professor, "but shooting from an aeroplane depends -not so much upon the gunner as upon the steersman. Their planes -wabble, the metal frame work is too stiff, it doesn't yield to the -air pressure." -</p> -<p> -Along such lines the conversation continued for an hour or so. -Neither the men nor Madame Oshima seemed the least bit excited over -the prospects; but Ethel, striving to keep up external appearances, -was inwardly torn with warring emotions. -</p> -<p> -Making an excuse of wishing to look for something among her luggage, -the girl finally escaped and walked quickly toward the other plane. -But instead of stopping, she passed by and continued down between -the rows of cotton, avoiding as much as possible the lights that -dotted the field about her. -</p> -<p> -"Oh, God!" she repeated under her breath; "Oh, God! I can't go! I -won't go!" -</p> -<p> -For some time she walked on briskly trying to calm her feverish mind -and reason out a sane course of procedure. -</p> -<p> -She was passing thus where the lights of two planes glowed fifty -meters at either side, when she stumbled heavily over some dark -object between the cotton rows. She turned to see what it was; and, -bending forward, discerned in the starlight the body of a man. She -started to run; then, fearing pursuit the more, checked her speed. -As she did so some one grasped her arm and a heavy hand was clapped -over her mouth. -</p> -<p> -"Keep quiet," commanded her captor hoarsely. In another instant he -had bent her back over his knee and thrown her—or rather dropped -her for she did not resist—upon the soft earth beneath. -</p> -<p> -"If you make a sound, I'll have to shoot," he said, resting a heavy -knee upon her chest and clasping her slender wrist in a vise-like -grip of a single hand. -</p> -<p> -The girl breathed heavily. -</p> -<p> -The man reached toward his hip pocket and drawing forth a bright -metallic object held it close to her face. Her breath stopped short. -Then a flood of light struck her full in the eyes, as her captor -pressed the button on his flash lamp. -</p> -<p> -"God! a woman!" the man gasped. The exclamation and voice were -clearly not Japanese. -</p> -<p> -Ethel felt the grip loosen from her wrists and the weight shift from -her chest. -</p> -<p> -"You're no Japanese!" he said under his breath, at the same time -letting the glowing flash lamp fall from his hand. -</p> -<p> -Presently Ethel raised her head and reached for the lamp where it -lay wasting its rays against the black soil. She now turned the glow -on the other and saw kneeling beside her a young man in American -clothes. He was hatless and coatless and his soft gray shirt was -torn and mud bespattered. A massive head of uncombed hair crowned a -handsome forehead, but the face beneath was marred by a stubby -growth of beard. -</p> -<p> -"Who are you?" whispered Ethel finding her voice. -</p> -<p> -"Put out the light," he commanded, reaching forward to take it from -her. -</p> -<p> -"Who are you?" he asked reversing the query as they were again in -darkness. -</p> -<p> -"I'm a girl," said Ethel. -</p> -<p> -The man laughed softly. -</p> -<p> -"I'm not," he said. -</p> -<p> -Ethel drew herself into a sitting posture. "Which side of this war -are you on?" she asked. -</p> -<p> -The man was afraid to commit himself—then a happy thought struck -him. "The same side that you are," he answered diplomatically. -</p> -<p> -It was Ethel's turn to smile. -</p> -<p> -"You are an American?" she ventured at length. -</p> -<p> -"Yes," he said. "So are you?" -</p> -<p> -"Yes." -</p> -<p> -"Then why are you wearing Japanese clothes?" -</p> -<p> -"Because—" she said hesitatingly, "I haven't any others." -</p> -<p> -For some minutes he said nothing. -</p> -<p> -"Are you going to give the alarm of my presence?" he asked at -length. -</p> -<p> -"No." -</p> -<p> -"Then I'll go," he said. -</p> -<p> -Rising from his knees, but still stooping, he made off rapidly down -the cotton row. -</p> -<p> -Ethel breathed deeply. Confused thoughts flashed through her mind. -She would not return to go with Komoru; in her Japanese garb she -feared the early morning sweep of American cavalry; but to the man -who had just left her, why could she not explain? -</p> -<p> -Without further debate, she arose, and at top speed ran after the -retreating figure. -</p> -<a name="2H_4_0004"><!-- H2 anchor --></a> - -<div style="height: 4em;"><br><br><br><br></div> - -<p class="blurb"> -The next instalment of this absorbing tale will -appear in the September issue of PHYSICAL CULTURE. -It tells of how the Japanese attempt to obtain -control of the United States through scientific -measures rather than barbarous warfare, and is -wonderfully interesting and readable. Don't miss -it. -</p> -<a name="2H_PART"><!-- H2 anchor --></a> - -<div style="height: 4em;"><br><br><br><br></div> - -<h2> -PART THREE. -</h2> -<p class="blurb"> -SYNOPSIS: In the year of 1958, Ethel Calvert, a -daughter of an American grain-merchant, residing -in Japan, because of her father's death in an -anti-foreign riot, is forced to take refuge, with -Madame Oshima, the French wife of a Japanese -scientist. She becomes accustomed to the land and -mode of living followed by the Japanese, and is -finally persuaded to adopt the costume of the land -of her exile. War is declared between Japan and -the United States, and Professor Oshima, and -Komoru, his Secretary, together with Madame Oshima -and Ethel Calvert, sail for the United States in a -Japanese war vessel. When near the Pacific Coast, -the many men and women who have been passengers on -the vessel, leave the ship by means of aeroplanes, -and sail eastwardly toward Texas, where they -establish plantations and conduct a desultory -warfare by aeroplanes with United States troops. -While working in the fields Ethel discovers a -young American in concealment. He warns her to -keep silent, and immediately runs away. -</p> -<p> -In a few minutes Ethel had caught up with the man who, more -cautiously, ran before her. Checking her speed, she followed -silently. -</p> -<p> -For a half-mile she pursued him thus. He came to the end of the -field and dodged into the thicket of bushes that lined the fence -row. He moved more slowly now, and she followed by sound rather than -by sight. At length they came to where a brook ran at right angles -to the fence row. The man stopped and crawled under the barbed-wire -fence and came out on the turnpike that ran alongside. -</p> -<p> -Ethel, peering out from the bushes, saw him walk boldly forward and -stand upon the end of the stone culvert that conducted the brook -beneath the roadway. For a moment only he remained so, and then -clambered quickly down at the end of the arch and disappeared in the -darkness beneath. She heard a foot splash in the water, and then all -was quiet save the gurgle of the stream. -</p> -<p> -Climbing over the fence, she top ran forward upon the culvert. She -listened and looked toward either end, resolved to call to him if he -emerged. -</p> -<p> -As she stood waiting she saw the yellow signal light rise in spirals -higher and higher and then circle slowly in one location. A few -minutes later the dim tail lights of the planes came up out of the -horizon and flew towards the signal light. -</p> -<p> -After a half-hour of waiting, she boldly resolved to enter the -hiding place of the man she had followed. -</p> -<p> -Cautiously feeling her way, she clambered down over the end of the -culvert and peered into its black archway. -</p> -<p> -At first, dimly and then with brighter flash, she saw a light -within. Creeping slowly forward, wading in the stream and stumbling -over rough blocks of stone, she made toward the light. Midway the -passage, the side wall of the culvert had fallen or been torn down -and there in a little damp clay nook, sitting hunched upon a rock -was the silhouette of the unshaven man. -</p> -<p> -Beyond him glowed the dim light and by its faint rays he was -hurriedly writing in a note book. -</p> -<p> -With a start he became aware of her presence, and turned the -flash-light upon her. -</p> -<p> -"I followed you," she stammered. "I want to explain. I'm an American -girl captive among the Japanese." -</p> -<p> -He stared at her quizzically in the dim light. -</p> -<p> -"I ran from you," he said, "because I was afraid to trust you—there -are a number of Europeans among the Japanese forces. I couldn't know -that you wouldn't have given the alarm, and for one man to run from -fifty thousand isn't cowardice; it's common sense—even bravery, -perhaps, when there's a cause at stake." -</p> -<p> -"I understand," replied the girl. -</p> -<p> -"Won't you be seated?" he said, arising and offering her his place -on the rock. She accepted, and he asked her for more of her story. -</p> -<p> -In reply she told him whom she was and related as briefly as she -could the incidents of her life that accounted for her peculiar -predicament. -</p> -<p> -"I suppose I owe you something of an explanation, too;" he said, -when she had finished. "My name is Winslow—Stanley Winslow; I am -—or at least was—-the editor of the <i>Regenerationist</i>. Do you know -what that is?" -</p> -<p> -Ethel confessed, that she did not. -</p> -<p> -"Perhaps I flatter myself, but then I suppose you have had no chance -to keep up on American affairs." -</p> -<p> -Just then a crash, followed by a whirring, clattering noise broke in -above the sound of the man's voice and the gurgle of the brook -running through their hiding-place. -</p> -<p> -"What's that?" Winslow exclaimed, starting towards the end of the culvert. -</p> -<a name="image-0007"><!--IMG--></a> -<center> -<img src="images/311.jpg" alt="She Was Washing Her Woven Grass Sandals by Rubbing -The Soles Together in the Stream. -"> -</center> -<!--IMAGE END--> -<p> -Ethel followed him. Before they reached the open the trees in front -of them were lit up by the lurid light of a fire. Beside the road a -hundred yards away was the crumpled mass of a metallic aeroplane. -The gasolene tank had burst open and was blazing furiously. -</p> -<p> -"Americans," said Winslow; "let's see if the crew are dead." -</p> -<p> -The gasolene had largely spent itself by the time they reached the -plane. -</p> -<p> -Poking about in the crumbled debris, they found the driver impaled -upon a lever that protruded from his back. -</p> -<p> -"I wonder what grounded her," mused Winslow, as he inspected the -dead man with his flash-lamp. "Oh! here we are! Good shooting that," -he added, pointing with his lamp to a soggy hole in the side of the -man's head. -</p> -<p> -"I guess they're at it," he said, pressing out his light and turning -his eyes skyward. -</p> -<p> -The woman, speechless, followed his gaze. Across the sky flashed -here and there brilliant beams of search-lights, but far more -numerous were the swiftly moving star-like tail-lights of the -Japanese planes. -</p> -<p> -Now and again they heard the crackling of machine guns, occasionally -the burr of a disordered propeller and once the faint call of a -human voice. -</p> -<p> -"Look," said Ethel, pointing to the southward. "See that brilliant -yellow light. It's the Japanese signal plane; they are all to fly in -towards it, and then, soaring high will escape over the American -lines." -</p> -<p> -"The lines are a joke," returned Winslow. "It's plane against plane. -And the Japs will get the best of it; or at least they'll get away, -which is all they want. They are going to Dakota, where five train -loads of gasolene will be setting on a siding waiting to be -captured. We printed the story ten days ago, though the -administration papers hooted at the idea." -</p> -<p> -As they walked back toward the culvert, Ethel stumbled over -something in the roadway. She asked for the light, and discovered to -her horror that she was standing in the midst of the remnants of a -man who had been spattered over the hard macadam of the turnpike. -</p> -<p> -"Ugh! take me away," she shuddered, averting her eyes and running -toward the stream, -</p> -<p> -"The gunner fell out of the plane when she lurched, I guess," -commented Winslow to himself, examining the shreds of clothing -attached to the mangled remains beneath him. -</p> -<p> -For some reason Winslow did not immediately follow the girl but went -back and looked over the wrecked plane again. -</p> -<p> -He removed the magazine pistol from the impaled man's pocket and -searched about in the locker until he found a supply of cartridges. -</p> -<p> -The sky was beginning to brighten from approaching dawn now, and the -searchlight flashes were less brilliant. Winslow stood gazing upward -until the forms of the lower flying planes became visible. Suddenly -he saw a disabled plane come somersaulting out of the air and fall -into a field quarter of a mile away. Evidently there were explosives -aboard, for a shower of flame, smoke and splinters arose where she -fell. -</p> -<p> -The onlooking man hopped over the fence and ran toward the spot. -There was little to be seen—a mere ragged hole in the sod. As he -unconcernedly walked back he passed at intervals a propeller blade -sticking upright in the soil, a broken can of rice cakes and a -woman's hand. -</p> -<p> -The dawn had now so far progressed that the observer could see some -order in the movement of the air craft. He studied with fascination -the last of the Japanese planes as they circled up toward their -aerial guide-post and moved thence in a steady stream to the -northward. -</p> -<p> -The American planes which had been harassing and firing on the -Japanese as they circled for altitude, now turned and closed in on -the rear of the enemy and the fighting was fast and furious. Plane -after plane tumbled sickeningly out of the sky. But for Winslow the -sight lasted only a few minutes, for the combatants were flying at -full speed and soon became mere flitting insects against the gray -light of the morning sky. -</p> -<p> -Striding down the roadway past the mangled body of the American -gunner, Winslow reached the culvert. -</p> -<p> -Ethel Calvert was sitting on a flat stone at the edge of the water. -She held her woven grass sandals in her hands and was washing them -by rubbing the soles together in the stream. -</p> -<p> -As Winslow looked down at her in silence, the girl looked up and -eyed him curiously. Neither spoke. The man stooped and washed his -hands in the brook and then stepping up-stream a few paces he drank -from the rivulet. -</p> -<p> -Returning he regarded the girl. She had placed her sandals beyond -her on the grassy bank and sat with her bare feet in the shallow -stream. Her head, buried in her arms, rested upon her knees. The -slender shoulders now shook convulsively and the sound of a sob -escaped her. In the calmness of his cynicism, the man sat down on -the rock and placed a strong arm around the trembling woman. -</p> -<a name="image-0008"><!--IMG--></a> -<center> -<img src="images/313.jpg" -alt="In Another Moment, he Turned in a Gap Through The -Fence and Rode Down Upon the Fleeing Woman. -"> -</center> -<!--IMAGE END--> -<p> -"I know," he said, "it's a dirty damned mess, but we didn't start -it." -</p> -<p> -After a time the girl raised her head. "I know we didn't start it," -she said; "but isn't there something we can do to stop it?" -</p> -<p> -"Well," he replied slowly, "I rather hope to have a hand in stopping -it, and perhaps you can help." -</p> -<p> -"How?" -</p> -<p> -"Surely you can do as much in stopping it as one of those poor -devils that get smashed does in keeping it going," he went on. -</p> -<p> -"How?" she repeated. -</p> -<p> -"Well, that's quite a long story," he replied; "if you don't already -know." -</p> -<p> -"I told you who I was." -</p> -<p> -"Yes." -</p> -<p> -"Well, the Regenerationists, along with many other sincere men and -women in this country tried to prevent this war and are trying to -get it peaceably settled now. The Japs don't want to die. They want -a chance to live. We've got a lot of vainglorious, debauched, -professional soldiery that wanted to fight something, and now -they're getting their fill. In the first place, there is no need of -war and in the second place, when there is war, the same stamina -that will make efficient humans for the ordinary walks of life will -make good soldiers. But money talks louder than reason. The ruling -powers in American government are a crew of beer-bloated politicians -who are in the pay of a cabal of wine-soaked plutocrats, and the -American people under such administration have become a race of -mental and physical degenerates. The Japs knew this or they would -never have invaded the country." -</p> -<p> -"What are you going to do about it? And what are you doing here now -within the Japanese lines?" asked Ethel when her companion paused. -</p> -<p> -"Oh, I am acting as my own war correspondent," he replied, smiling a -little. -</p> -<p> -"<i>Pat-a-pat, pat-a-pat</i>"—Winslow jumped up excitedly and clambered -to the top of the embankment. -</p> -<p> -Ethel noting his alarm, slipped her feet into her sandals and rose -to follow him. -</p> -<p> -"Quick," he exclaimed, hurrying down the bank again. "It's American -cavalry." -</p> -<p> -"But let us go meet them," said the girl. -</p> -<p> -"No, never," replied Winslow, taking her by the arm and hurrying her -into the culvert. "You don't understand. As for you in kimo, your -reception would be anything but pleasant; and as for me, I'm an -outlaw with a price on my head." -</p> -<p> -Reaching the chink where the rocks had fallen out of the culvert -wall, Winslow squeezed into it and pulled the girl down beside him. -Carefully he crowded her feet and his own back so that their -presence could not be detected from the end of the culvert. -</p> -<p> -"I'm afraid we left tracks on the bank, but we can at least die -game," he said, pulling his magazine pistol from his belt and -handing it to the girl, while he drew from his hip pocket the weapon -he had taken from the dead aviator. -</p> -<p> -"I hate these things," he said, "but when a man is in a corner and -no chance to run, I suppose he's justified in using a cowardly -fighting machine." -</p> -<p> -They heard clearly now the hoof beats on the roadway above. -Presently an officer rode his horse down to the stream at the head -of the culvert. "Anything under there?" called a voice from above. -</p> -<p> -"Nothing doing," replied the other, peering beneath the archway. -</p> -<p> -"You're a fool sitting there like that," called a third voice. -"Company C lost two men back there from a wounded Jap under a -bridge." -</p> -<p> -The horseman urged his beast up the bank and the troop passed on. -</p> -<p> -For some hours the man and the girl remained in the culvert; -meanwhile Winslow explained the Regenerationist movement, which was -not as his enemies interpreted, a traitorous party favoring the -Japanese, but only a group of thinkers who advocated principles not -unlike those which had made the Japanese such a superior race either -at peace or at war. -</p> -<p> -As she listened, it seemed to Ethel as if her own dream had come -true, for here indeed was a man of her own blood with stamina of -physique and mental and moral courage, who professed and practiced -all she had found that was good among the people of her enforced -adoption and in addition much that, to her with her racial prejudice -in his favor, seemed even better than the ways of Japanese. -</p> -<p> -In reply to her questions as to the cause of his outlawry, Winslow -explained that he and other leaders of his party had long been at -swords' points with the conservatives who were in power and that the -administration, taking advantage of the martial frenzy of the war, -were persecuting the Regenerationists as supposed traitors. -</p> -<div style="height: 4em;"><hr></div> - -<p> -As the sun indicated mid-forenoon the dishevelled editor of the -Regenerationist and his newly found follower sauntered forth and -took to the turnpike. -</p> -<p> -"We may as well be on the road," he argued. "The sooner the American -people get the inside facts of this affair the sooner they will -decide to stop it, and it's forty-five miles to the nearest place -where I can get in touch with my people." -</p> -<p> -Bareheaded, through the hot sun, they travelled rapidly along the -turnpike, keeping a sharp lookout for occasional parties of cavalry -and hiding in the fields until they passed. Sometimes they talked of -the contrasted ways of life in Japan and in America, and again -Winslow wrote hurriedly in his note-book as he walked. -</p> -<p> -About three o'clock in the afternoon they stopped in the shade where -a rivulet fell over a small cataract. -</p> -<p> -"Aren't you hungry?" asked Ethel, after they had drunk from the -brook. -</p> -<p> -"I don't know. I hadn't thought of it particularly," replied her -companion. "Let's see, the last time I ate was in a farmhouse north -of Houston. That was eight days ago. When have you last eaten?" -</p> -<p> -"Yesterday morning," replied the girl. -</p> -<p> -"Then you are probably hungrier than I am." -</p> -<p> -With their conversation and the murmur of the waterfall they had -failed to detect the approach of two cavalry officers, who, walking -their tired mounts, had come up unheeded. -</p> -<p> -"Hey! look at the beauty in breeches!" called one of the approaching -men. -</p> -<a name="image-0009"><!--IMG--></a> -<center> -<img src="images/315.jpg" alt="He Rolled a Bundle of 'Regenerationists' on the Wing -Of the Aeroplane Below."> -</center> -<!--IMAGE END--> -<p> -"Her for mine," returned the other. -</p> -<p> -"I saw it first—hie!" returned the first, drawing rein. -</p> -<p> -"Give it to me, you hog; you've got one!" -</p> -<p> -"All right, all right—go take it—maybe the bum will object," -laughed the first, as the unshaven Winslow advanced in front of the -girl. -</p> -<p> -"Run quick," called Winslow to Ethel. "They're too drunk to shoot -straight." -</p> -<p> -The turnpike was inclosed by a high, woven-wire fence, and the girl -obeying turned down the road. Her would-be claimant put spurs to his -horse and dashed after her, leaving Winslow covering the rear -horseman with his magazine pistol. -</p> -<p> -"Well," said the drunken officer weakly, "I ain't doing nothing." -</p> -<p> -"Then ride down the road the other way as fast as you can go." -</p> -<p> -The officer obeyed. -</p> -<p> -For a moment Winslow watched him and then turned to see Ethel -climbing over the woven-wire fence with the soldier trying to urge -his horse up the embankment to reach her. -</p> -<p> -Winslow started to run to the girl's rescue, but no sooner had he -turned than a bullet sang past his ear. Wheeling about he saw the -other cavalryman riding toward him firing as he came. -</p> -<p> -With lewd brutality calling for vengeance in one direction and a man -firing at his back from the other, Winslow's aversion to bloodshed -became nil; and, aiming cool, he began firing at the approaching -officer. -</p> -<p> -It must have been the horse that got the bullet, for with the third -shot mount and rider somersaulted upon the macadam. -</p> -<p> -Without compunction, Winslow turned and sprinted down the roadway. -He saw Ethel dashing across the field, hurdling the cotton rows. The -officer was racing down the road, seeming away from her, but in -another moment he turned through a gap in the fence and rode down -upon the fleeing woman. -</p> -<p> -The athletic Winslow vaulted the six-foot fence with an easy spring, -and tore madly through the obstructing vegetation. -</p> -<p> -The rider overtaking the woman, tried to hold her, first by the arm, -and failing in that, he grabbed her by the hair. Winslow wondered -why she did not shoot him, and then he recalled that he was carrying -both weapons. -</p> -<p> -In another instant he was up with them and had dragged the man from -his horse and flung him to the ground. The soldier kicked and swore, -but half drunk, his resistance was of small consequence to his -well-trained adversary. -</p> -<p> -"Here," called Winslow to the girl, who had tumbled down in a heap -more from fright than physical exhaustion, "come and get my knife -and cut the rein from the horse's bridle." -</p> -<p> -Thus equipped, the two strapped their captive's hands and one foot -together behind him. -</p> -<p> -"There now," said Winslow, as he relieved the officer of his weapon. -"Hop back to the bridge and look after your comrade. He fell on the -turnpike a while ago and I'm afraid he hurt his head. We'll have to -be going." -</p> -<p> -"Shall we take the horse?" asked Ethel. -</p> -<p> -"No," replied her companion, beginning to throw clods at the animal, -"we'll simply run him away. As for us, we are safer on foot, and -will in the long run make better time." -</p> -<p> -"You are not tired, are you?" he asked, as they turned into the -roadway again. -</p> -<p> -"No," she replied, "only a bit tired and weak from my scare. How far -have we come?" -</p> -<p> -"Fifteen miles, perhaps; I really hardly know; we've been -interrupted so much." -</p> -<p> -They made a long detour through the fields to avoid a group of -buildings. Striking the road again, they soon came upon a slight -rise of land that stood well above the level of the surrounding -country. -</p> -<p> -"Are we not rather conspicuous here?" asked the girl. -</p> -<p> -"Well, rather," admitted her companion, pausing to look around; "but -I guess we can see as far as we can be seen." -</p> -<p> -"Look! look!" called Ethel excitedly, jerking her companion's arm -and pointing to the south, where the flat horizon was broken by the -derricks and tanks of the oil fields. -</p> -<p> -At first Winslow saw nothing, and then shading his eyes he sighted -what looked like a great bevy of birds flying just above the -horizon. -</p> -<p> -Larger and larger grew the specks against the sky. -</p> -<p> -"They will be over us in fifteen minutes," said Winslow; "let's get -up in that oak over there, where we can see without being seen." -</p> -<p> -Safely hidden by the enveloping foliage, the man and the girl now -watched the approach of the planes. As they came over the oil region -the planes began swooping near the ground and then rapidly rising -again. -</p> -<p> -"Its Japanese after the American cavalry, I guess," said Winslow. In -a few minutes black smoke belched forth at numerous points from the -petroleum works. -</p> -<p> -After a time a cloud of dust arose from a great meadow that spread -for several miles to the north of the oil wells. A group of -aeroplanes hovered closely above the dust cloud and kept up that -periodical swooping towards the earth. -</p> -<p> -"It's stampeding cavalry," said the sharp-eyed Ethel, "and the -airmen are dropping bombs on them." -</p> -<p> -The cloud of dust came nearer and nearer until they could see the -swift fall of the deadly missiles from the swooping planes and the -havoc wrought in the straggling ranks by the showers of pellets from -the shrapnel exploding above their heads. -</p> -<p> -When the foremost of the cavalry troop were perhaps a quarter of a -mile from the observers, a commanding officer, who was riding well -in the lead, wheeled his horse, threw away his jacket, tore off his -white shirt and waived it frantically above his head. -</p> -<p> -An answering truce flag soon appeared from a plane above and the -jaded horsemen, riding up, drew rein and waited. -</p> -<p> -The truce plane now swooped low and dropped a message fastened to a -white cloth. A soldier caught it and brought it to the officer, who -signalled assent. -</p> -<p> -Orders were called along the line, and the men filed by and piled -their weapons in an inglorious heap. -</p> -<p> -After this most of the lazy circling planes rose and made off to the -left, while a few assigned to guard duty circled above the -retreating cavalry, as they moved off slowly in the opposite -direction. -</p> -<p> -Two belated members of the troop, who had lost their horses, flung -themselves down to rest for a moment in the lengthening shadow of -the oak tree. -</p> -<p> -"Oh Gawd!" said one, as he panted and mopped his forehead. "Oh Gawd! -I was scared! That damned shrapnel bursting right over us and no -chance to fight back or get away. It ain't no fair fighting like -that—you can't get at 'em." -</p> -<p> -"They've tricked us, they have," returned his companion. "Our own -airmen's up in Nebraska chasing the Japs that gave us the slip this -morning, and here these damn hawks come swooping in. I reckon it's -reinforcements from Japan. The transports that brought the first -bunch must have been back and got another load, and this time it -seems to be regular soldiers—here to kill—the others were just -decoys." -</p> -<p> -"No, they ain't exactly decoys; they're here to stay and raise -families, and damned if that ain't what I'm going to do, if I ever -get out of this. Gawd! our loss must be something awful, and they're -at it yet. Look! see 'em over there by Beaumont like a flock of -crows. The bunch that got us was just a few of them." -</p> -<p> -For a time both soldiers eyed the distant fighting. -</p> -<p> -"When I get out of this," continued the first speaker; "when I get -out, I'm going to join the Regenerationists." -</p> -<p> -"What's that; peace cranks?" -</p> -<p> -"Yep; but it's more than that, it's health cranks and temperance -cranks, and moral cranks, and socialist cranks, and every other kind -of crank that believes in people being decent and living -happy—health, quiet lives, instead of fighting and robbing -and—boozing and abusing themselves and each other to death." -</p> -<p> -"Oh, Hell! don't preach just because you're scared," said the other, -getting up. -</p> -<p> -"Call it preaching if you like, but believe me, I've been getting -letters from the folks back home, and my people ain't such poor -stuff either, if I did join the army, and I want to tell you that -such preaching is getting damn popular lately. This fall's election, -you know, and the way we've been done up here to-day, will have a -lot to do with the outcome." -</p> -<p> -"We'd better move," said the other, looking up. "That Jap up there -thinks we're going back after our guns." -</p> -<div style="height: 4em;"><hr></div> - -<p> -With the oil regions again in the hands of the vigilant Japanese, -Winslow and Ethel found escape more perilous and difficult. But on -the third night they succeeded in getting through the lines and -reaching Winslow's confederates, who were awaiting him near St. -Charles, La. From hence they travelled by aeroplane to a secluded -railroadless valley in the heart of the Ozarks. -</p> -<p> -It was here that the secret printing plant of the <i>Regenerationist</i> -had been established. Ethel knew nothing of printing or journalism, -but a place was found for her in the department of circulation. -</p> -<p> -While news could be received via wireless, the paper and supplies, -as well as the men who went to and fro from the secret printing -plant of the outlawed publication, had to be transported by plane. -Aviators with sufficient skill and daring for the task were hard to -find. Already at home in the air, it was only a few days until Ethel -was driving a plane on a paper route. -</p> -<p> -The seven hundred miles to Denver she covered one night, returning -the next. She started out with half a ton of papers—seventy-two -thousand copies—which in suitable bundles were dropped by the boy -in the center of the triangular signal fires which local agents -built at night in open fields. -</p> -<p> -Once she lost her load by a fall in the Kansas River, and once she -ran out of fuel and held up a rich country house at the point of a -pistol and demanded the supply of automobile gasoline. -</p> -<p> -Worst of all, she was chased one night by a government secret -service plane. Despairing of outflying them, she got and held the -position directly above their craft, while the boy rolled a -two-hundred-pound bale of <i>Regenerationists</i> over on the other's -wing and sent the Federal airmen somersaulting into eternity. -</p> -<p> -But these stirring times did not last long. With the second Japanese -invasion and the Orientals now established in two widely separated -sections of the country, the authorities at Washington soon acceded -to a truce, and one of the immediate results was abolition of -martial law and re-establishment of a free press. -</p> -<p> -Throughout the summer, in the rice lands in the South, and the wheat -lands of the North, the Japanese lived, harmless gardeners of their -newly acquired possessions. But their gasoline tanks were full and -they carried sufficient conflagration bombs to have fired every city -from New Orleans to St. Paul, had the truce been broken by American -treachery. -</p> -<p> -The <i>Regenerationist</i>, now removed to St. Louis, was again a -full-sized newspaper. The party in power, supported by the -capitalistic and military classes, preached old-fashioned patriotism -and with martial music and flying flags tried to enthuse the people. -But the terror of the American soldiery in the unfair battle of -Beaumont had gone abroad throughout the land. The people feared the -draft for military service—they feared the firing of the -cities—the poisoning of their water supplies and a hundred other -spectres which in the minds of a degenerate and servile city -population the presence of a successful aerial enemy had inspired. -</p> -<p> -The reform party of the <i>Regenerationists</i> had by the fortunes of -war achieved a tremendous growth. Their recruits came both from the -better element who had thus been awakened from their lethargy, and -from the cowardly rabble who supported peace because of the terror -in their hearts. -</p> -<p> -Gerald Stoddard, Chancellor of the University of Illinois, a big -sound man of clean mind and clean body, was chosen as the radical -presidential candidate, and won with an overwhelming majority. -</p> -<p> -His election meant peace between the warring powers, and strong -likelihood of peace in the world for all time to come. It also meant -other things. It meant the complete inversion of the American policy -and the welcoming of science as the servant of mankind's larger -needs and not merely a flunky to the degenerate, luxury-loving few. -</p> -<p> -President-elect Stoddard, with masterful hand, began at once the -organization of the new administration. Among the appointees whom he -early announced was that of Stanley Winslow, to the position of -Secretary of Public Health. -</p> -<p> -In his telegram of acceptance, Winslow said: -</p> -<p> -"In signifying my intention of accepting the position of Secretary -of Public Health in your Cabinet, I wish to say that it will be my -sole purpose to prove myself possessed of the larger patriotism -which would defend our race against retrogression and annihilation, -not by such antiquated and inefficient methods as immigration -restriction or mechanical warfare, but by the improvement of the -race itself." -</p> -<p> -And Ethel, too, sent a telegram. It read: -</p> -<p> -PROFESSOR AND MADAME OSHIMA,<br> -<span style='margin-left: 4em;'>JAPANESE OCCUPATION,</span><br> -<span style='margin-left: 8em;'>SOUTH DAKOTA.</span><br> -</p> -<p> -As soon as travel is freely established come and visit us. When are -the children coming over? -</p> -<p> -ETHEL CALVERT WINSLOW,<br> -<span style='margin-left: 4em;'>Care the <i>Regenerationist</i>.</span><br> -</p> -<p> -St. Louis, Mo. -</p> -<p> -But of Komoru she said not a word. She couldn't forget the -unfathomable look in his eyes. 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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: In the Clutch of the War-God - -Author: Milo Hastings - -Release Date: September 26, 2004 [EBook #13526] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IN THE CLUTCH OF THE WAR-GOD *** - - - - -Produced by Roger Taft, grandson of the author, and -Jim Tinsley. - - - - - -In the Clutch of the War-God - -In three parts, from Physical Culture magazine, July - September, 1911. - - - - -PART ONE - - -In the Clutch of the War-God - -THE TALE OF THE ORIENT'S INVASION OF THE OCCIDENT, AS CHRONICLED IN -THE HUMANICULTURE SOCIETY'S "HISTORY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY" - -By Milo Hastings - - - -FOREWORD: In this strange story of another day, -the author has "dipped into the future" and viewed -with his mind's eye the ultimate effect of -America's self-satisfied complacency, and her -persistent refusal to heed the lessons of Oriental -progress. I can safely promise the reader who -takes up this unique recital of the twentieth -century warfare, that his interest will be -sustained to the very end by the interesting -deductions and the keen insight into the -possibilities of the present trend of -international affairs exhibited by the -author.--Bernarr Macfadden. - - - -"Kindly be prepared to absent yourself at a moment's notice." It was -Goyu speaking, blundering, old fool. He was standing in the doorway -with his kitchen-apron on, and an iron spoon in his hand. - -"What on earth is the matter?" asked Ethel Calvert, tossing aside -her French novel in alarm, for such a lack of deference in Goyu -meant vastly more than appeared upon the surface. - -"I am informed," replied Goyu, gravely, "that there has been an -anti-foreign riot and that many are killed." - -"And father?" gasped Ethel. - -"He was upon the grain boat," said Goyu. - -"But where is he now?" - -"I do not know," returned Goyu, locking nervously over his shoulder. -"But I fear he has not fared well--the boat was dynamited--that's -what started the trouble." - -With a gasp Ethel recalled that an hour before she had heard an -explosion which she had supposed to be blasting. Faint with fear, -she staggered toward a couch and fell forward upon the cushions. - - * * * - -When the girl regained consciousness the house was dark. Slowly she -recalled the event that had culminated the uneventful day. She -wondered if Goyu had been lying or had gone crazy. The darkness was -not reassuring--her father always came home before dark, and his -absence now confirmed her fears. She wondered if the old servant had -deserted her. He was a poor stick anyway; Japanese men who had pride -or character no longer worked as domestics in the households of -foreigners. - -Ethel Calvert was the daughter of an American grain merchant who -represented the interests of the North American Grain Exporters -Association at the seaport of Otaru, in Hokaidi, the North Island of -Japan. Three years before her mother had died of homesickness and a -broken heart--although the Japanese physician had called it -tuberculosis, and had prescribed life in a tent! Had they not -suffered discomforts enough in that barbarous country without adding -insult to injury? - -Ethel was bountifully possessed of the qualities of hothouse beauty. -Her jet black hair hung over the snowy skin of her temples in -striking contrast. Her form was of a delicate slenderness and her -movement easy and graceful with just a little of that languid -listlessness considered as a mark of well-bred femininity. She knew -that she was beautiful according to the standards of her own people -and her isolation from the swirl of the world's social life was to -her gall and wormwood. - -The Calverts had never really "settled" in Japan, but had merely -remained there as homesick Americans indifferent to, or unjustly -prejudiced against the Japanese life about them. Now, in the year -1958, the growing anti-foreign feeling among the Japanese had added -to their isolation. Moreover, the Japanese bore the grain merchant -an especial dislike, for every patriotic Japanese was sore at heart -over the fact that, after a century of modern progress, Japan was -still forced to depend upon foreigners to supplement their food -supply. - -In fact, they had oft heard Professor Oshima grieve over the -statistics of grain importation, as a speculator might mourn his -personal losses in the stock market. - - * * * - -For a time Ethel lay still and listened to the faint sound of voices -from a neighboring porch. Then the growing horror of the situation -came over her with anewed force; if her father was dead, she was not -only alone in the world, but stranded in a foreign and an unfriendly -country; for there were but few Americans left in the city. - -The girl arose and crept nervously into the dining-room. She turned -on the electric light; everything seemed in order. She hurried over -to Goyu's room, and knocked. There was no answer. Then slowly -opening the door, she peered in--the room was empty and disordered. -Plainly the occupant had bundled together his few belongings and -flown. - -Ethel stole back through the silent house and tremblingly took down -the telephone receiver. In vain she called the numbers of the few -American families of the city. Last on the list was the American -Consulate, and this time she received the curt information that the -consul had left the city by aeroplane "with the other foreigners." -The phrase struck terror into her heart. If the European population -had flown in such haste as to overlook her, clearly there was -danger. A great fear grew upon her. Afraid to remain where she was, -she tried to think of ways of escape. She could not steer an -aeroplane even if she were able to obtain one. Otaru was far from -the common ways of international traffic and the ships lying at -anchor in the harbor were freighters, Japanese owned and Japanese -manned. - -Ethel looked at her watch--it was nine-twenty. She tiptoed to her -room. - -An hour later she was in the street dressed in a tailored suit of -American make and carrying in her hand-bag a few trinkets and -valuables she had found in the house. Passing hurriedly through -quiet avenues, she was soon in the open country. The road she -followed was familiar to her, as she had traveled it many times by -auto. - -For hours she walked rapidly on. Her unpracticed muscles grew tired -and her feet jammed forward in high-heeled shoes were blistered and -sore. But fear lent courage and as the first rays of the morning sun -peeked over the hill-tops, the refugee reached the outskirts of the -city of Sapporo. - -Ethel made straightway for the residence of Professor Oshima, the -Soil Chemist of the Imperial Agricultural College of Hokiado--a -Japanese gentleman who had been educated and who had married abroad, -and a close friend of her father's. As she reached the door of the -Professor's bungalow, she pushed the bell, and sank exhausted upon -the stoop. - -Some time afterward she half-dreamed and half realized that she -found herself neatly tucked between white silk sheets and lying on a -floor mattress of a Japanese sleeping-porch. A gentle breeze fanned -her face through the lattice work and low slanting sunbeams sifting -in between the shutters fell in rounded blotches upon the opposite -straw matting wall. For a time she lay musing and again fell asleep. - -When she next awakened, the room was dimly lighted by a little -glowing electric bulb and Madame Oshima was sitting near her. Her -hostess greeted her cordially and offered her water and some fresh -fruit. - -Madame Oshima was fully posted upon the riots and confirmed Ethel's -fears as to the fate of her father. - -[Illustration: "But have I lost my figure?" inquired the lithe -Madame Oshima.] - -"You will be safe here for the present," her hostess assured her. -"Professor Oshima has been called to Tokio; when he returns we will -see what can be done concerning your embarking for America." - -Madame Oshima was of French descent but had fully adopted Japanese -customs and ways of thinking. - -As soon as Ethel was up and about, her hostess suggested that she -exchange her American-made clothing for the Japanese costume of the -time. But Ethel was inclined to rebel. - -"Why," she protested, "if I discarded my corsets I would lose my -figure." - -"But have I lost my figure?" inquired the lithe Madame Oshima, -striking an attitude. - -To this Ethel did not reply, but continued, "And I would look like a -man," for among the Japanese people tight-belted waists and flopping -skirts had long since been replaced by the kimo, a single-piece -garment worn by both sexes and which fitted the entire body with -comfortable snugness. - -"And is a man so ill-looking?" asked her companion, smiling. - -"Why, no, of course not, only he's different. Why, I couldn't wear a -kimo--people would see--my limbs," stammered the properly-bred -American girl. - -"Why, no, they couldn't," replied Madame Oshima. "Not if you keep -your kimo on." - -"But they would see my figure." - -"Well, I thought you just said that was what you were afraid they -wouldn't see." - -"But I don't mean that way--they--they could see the shape of my--my -legs," said Ethel, blushing crimson. - -"Are you ashamed that your body has such vulgar parts?" returned the -older woman. - -"No, of course not," said Ethel, choking back her embarrassment. -"But it's wicked for a girl to let men know such things." - -"Oh, they all know it," replied Madame Oshima, "they learn it in -school." - -At this the highly strung Ethel burst into sobs. - -"There, there now," said her companion, regretting that she had -spoken sarcastically. "I forget that I once had such ideas also. -We'll talk some more about it after while. You are nervous and -worried now and must have more rest." - -The next day Madame Oshima more tactfully approached the subject and -showed her protege that while in Rome it was more modest to do as -the Romans do; and that, moreover, it was necessary for her own good -and theirs that she attract as little attention as possible, and to -those that recognized her Caucasian blood appear, superficially, at -least, as a naturalized citizen of Japan. - -So, amid blushes and tears, protestations and laughter, Ethel -accepted the kimo, or one-piece Japanese garment, and the outer -flowing cloak to be worn on state occasions when freedom of bodily -movement was not required. Her feather-adorned hat was discarded -altogether and her ill-shapen high-heeled boots replaced by airy -slippers of braided fiber. - -Her rather short stature and her hair--which fortunately enough was -black--served to lessen her conspicuousness, especially when dressed -in the fashion followed by Japanese girls; and with the leaving off -of the use of cosmetics and the spending of several hours a day in -the flower garden even her pallid complexion suffered rapid change. - -It was about a fortnight before Professor Oshima returned from -Tokio. Upon his arrival Ethel at once pleaded with him to be sent to -America, but the scientist slowly shook his head. - -"It is too late," he said; "there is going to be a war." - -Thus it happened that Ethel Calvert was retained in the Professor's -family as a sort of English tutor to his children, and introduced as -a relative of his wife, and no one suspected that she was one of the -hated Americans. - - * * * - -The trouble between Japan and the United States dated back to the -early part of the century. It was deep-seated and bitter, and was -not only the culmination of a rivalry between the leading nations of -the great races of mankind, but a rivalry between two great ideas or -policies that grew out in opposite directions from the age of -unprecedented mechanical and scientific progress that marked the -dawn of the twentieth century. - -The pages of history had been turned rapidly in those years. The -United States, long known as the richest country, had also become -the most populous nation of the Caucasian world--and wealth and -population had made her vain. - -But with all her material glory, there was not strength in American -sinews, nor endurance in her lungs, nor vigor in the product of her -loins. Her people were herded together in great cities, where they -slept in gigantic apartment houses, like mud swallows in a sand -bank. They overate of artificial food that was made in great -factories. They over-dressed with tight-fitting unsanitary clothing -made by the sweated labor of the diseased and destitute. They -over-drank of old liquors born of ancient ignorance and of new -concoctions born of prostituted science. They smoked and perfumed -and doped with chemicals and cosmetics--the supposed virtues of -which were blazoned forth on earth and sky day and night. - -The wealth of the United States was enormous, yet it was chiefly in -the hands of the few. The laborers went forth from their rookeries -by subway and monorail, and served their shifts in the mills of -industry. - -In turn, others took their places, and the mills ground night and -day. - -Even the farm lands had been largely taken over by corporate -control. Crops on the plains were planted with power machinery. The -rough lands had all been converted into forests or game preserves -for the rich. Agriculture had been developed as a science, but not -as a husbandry. The forcing system had been generally applied to -plants and animals. Wonder-working nitrogenous fertilizers made at -Niagara and by the wave motors of the coast made all vegetation to -grow with artificial luxury. Corn-fed hogs and the rotund carcasses -of stall-fed cattle were produced on mammoth ranches for the -edification of mankind, and fowl were hatched by the billions in -huge incubators, and the chicks reared and slaughtered with scarcely -a touch of a human hand. And all this was under the control of -concentrated business organization. The old, sturdy, wasteful farmer -class had gone out of existence. - -Only the rich who owned aeroplanes could afford to live in the -country. The poor had been forced to the cities where they could be -sheltered _en masse_, and fed, as it were, by machinery. New York -had a population of twenty-three millions. Manhattan Island had been -extended by filling in the shallows of the bay, until the Battery -reached almost to Staten Island. The aeroplane stations that topped -her skyscrapers stood, many of them, a quarter of a mile from the -ground. - -As the materially greatest nation in the world, the United States -had an enormous national patriotism based on vanity. The larger -patriotism for humanity was only known in the prattle of her -preachers and idealists. America was the land of liberty--and -liberty had come to mean the right to disregard the rights of -others. - -In Japan, too, there had been changes, but Japan had received the -gifts of science in a far different spirit. With her, science had -been made to serve the more ultimate needs of the race, rather than -the insane demand for luxuries. - -The Japanese had applied to the human species the scientific -principles of heredity, nutrition and physical development, which in -America had been confined to plants and animals. The old spirit of -Japanese patriotism had grown into a semi-religious worship of -racial fitness and a moral pride developed which eulogized the -sacrifice of the liberties of the individual to the larger needs of -the people. Legal restrictions of the follies of fashion in dress -and food, the prohibition of alcohol and narcotics, the restriction -of unwise marriages, and the punishments of immorality were -stoically accepted, not as the blue laws of religious fanaticism, -but as requisites of racial progress and a mark of patriotism. - -And while Japan showed no signs of the extravagant wealth seen in -America, she was far from being poor. She had gained little from -centralized and artificial industry, but she had wasted less in -insane competition and riotous luxury. - -But in Japanese life there was one unsolved problem. That was her -food supply. Intensive culture would do wonders and the just -administration of wealth and the physical efficiency of her people -had eliminated the waste of supporting the non-productive, but an -acre is but a small piece of land at most, and Japan had long since -passed the point where the number of her people exceeded the number -of her acres. A quarter of an acre would produce enough grain and -coarse vegetables to keep a man alive, but the Japanese wanted eggs -and fruit and milk for their children; and they wanted cherry trees -and chrysanthemums, lotus ponds and shady gardens with little -waterfalls. - -[Illustration: In the nineteenth month of the war, the emblem of the -Rising Sun was hoisted over Manila.] - -Now if the low birth rate that had resulted when the examinations -for parenthood were first enforced had continued, Japan would not -have been so crowded, but after the first generation of marriage -restriction the percentage of those who reached the legal standard -of fitness was naturally increased. The scientists and officials had -from time to time considered the advisability of increasing the -restrictions--and yet why should they? The Japanese people had -submitted to the prohibition of the marriage of the unfit, but they -loved children; and, with their virile outdoor life, the instinct of -procreation was strong within them. True, the assignable lands in -Japan continued to grow smaller, but what reason was there for -stifling the reproductive instincts of a vigorous people in a great -unused world half populated by a degenerate humanity? - -So Japan was land hungry--not for lands to conquer, as of old, nor -yet for lands to exploit commercially, but for food and soil and -breathing space for her children. - -Among opponents of Japanese racial expansion, the United States was -the greatest offender. Japanese immigration had long since been -forbidden by the United States, and American diplomats had more -recently been instrumental in bringing about an agreement among the -powers of Europe by which all outlets were locked against the -overflowing stream of Asiatic population. - -Indeed, America called Japan the yellow peril; and with her own -prejudices to maintain, her institutions of graft and exploitation -to fatten her luxury-loving lords and her laborers to appease, she -was in mortal terror of the simple efficiency of the Japanese people -who had taken the laws of Nature into their own hands and shaped -human evolution by human reason. - -As Commodore Perry had forced the open door of commerce upon Japan a -century before, so Japan decided to force upon America the -acknowledgment of any human being's right to live in any land on -earth. She had tried first by peaceful means to secure these ends, -but failing here and driven on by the lash of her own necessity, -Japan had come to feel that force alone could break the clannish -resistance of the Anglo-Saxon, who having gone into the four corners -of the earth and forced upon the world his language, commerce and -customs, now refused to receive ideas or citizens in return. - -And thus it came to pass that the West and the East were in the -clutch of the War-God. No one knew just what the war would be like, -for the wars of the last century had been bluffing, bulldozing -affairs concerning trade agreements or Latin-American revolutions. -There had been no great clash of great ideas and great peoples. - -The harbors of the world were filled with huge, floating, -flat-topped battleships, within the capacious interiors of which -were packed the parts of aeroplanes as were the soldiers of the -Grecian army in their wooden horse at Troy, for assembling and -launching them. But the engines of warfare which men had repeatedly -claimed would make war so terrible as to end war, had failed to -fulfill anticipations. The means of defense and the rules of the -game had kept pace with the means of destruction. The flat tops of -the warships, which served as alighting platforms for friendly -planes, were heavily armored against missiles dropped from -unfriendly ones. The explosion of a bomb on top of a plate of steel -is a rather tame affair, and guns sufficient to penetrate armor -plate could not be carried on air-craft. The big guns of -battleships, which had for a time grown bigger and bigger, had now -gone quite out of use, for the coming of the armored top had been -followed by the toad-stool warship, which had a roof like an -inverted saucer, and was provided with water chambers, the opening -of the traps of which caused a sudden sinking of the vessel until -the eave dipped beneath the water level and left exposed only the -sloping roof from which the heaviest shot would glance like a bullet -from the frozen surface of a pond. - -The first two years of war dragged on in the Pacific. American grain -was of course cut off from Japan and the government authorities -ordered the people to plow up their flower gardens and plant food -crops. - -The Americans had too much territory to protect to take the -offensive and their Pacific fleet lay close to Manila, where, with -the help of land aviation forces, they hoped to hold the possession -of the islands, which according to the popular American view was -supposed to be the prize for which the Japanese had gone to war. - -The test of the actual warfare proved several things upon which -mankind had long been in doubt. One of these was that, with all the -expert mechanism that science and invention had supplied, the -personal equation of the man could not be eliminated. Aviation -increased the human element in warfare. To shoot straight requires -calm nerves, but to fly straight requires also agility and -endurance. - -The American aeroplanes were made of steel and aluminum, and when -they hit the water they sank like lead, but the Japanese planes were -made of silk and bamboo, and their engines were built with multiple -compartment air tanks and after a battle the Japanese picked up the -floating engines and placed them, ready to use, in inexpensive new -planes. - - * * * - -In the nineteenth month of the war, Manila surrendered, and the -emblem of the rising sun was hoisted throughout the Philippine -Islands. The remnant of the American fleet retreated across the -Pacific, and the world supposed that the war was over. - -But Japan refused the American proposals of peace, which conceded -them the Philippines, unless the United States be also opened to -universal immigration. And so it was that when Japan, in addition to -accepting the Philippines, demanded the right to settle her cheap -labor in the United States, the American authorities cut short the -peace negotiation and began concentrating troops and battleships -along the Pacific Coast in fear of an invasion of California. - - * * * - -With Ethel Calvert's adoption into Professor Oshima's family there -came a great change in her life. At first, she accepted Japanese -food and Japanese clothes as the old-time prisoner accepted stripes -and bread and water. But her captivity proved less repulsive than -she expected and she was soon confessing to herself that there was -much good in Japanese life. Professor and Madame Oshima were not -talkative on general topics but the books on the shelves of the -Professor's library proved a godsend to the awakening mind of the -young woman. Indeed, after a mental diet of French and English -fiction upon which Ethel had been reared, the works on science and -humaniculture, the dreams of universal brotherhood, the epics of a -race in its conquests of disease and poverty were as meat and drink -to her eager, hungry mind. - -As the war went on, the horror of it all grew upon her. She read -Howki's "America." She didn't believe it all, but she realized that -most of it was true. She wondered why her people were fighting to -keep out the Japanese. She marvelled that the Japanese who had -adopted such lofty ideals of race culture could find the heart to go -to war. She wished she might be free to go to the government -officials at Tokio and Washington to show them the folly of it all. -Surely if the American statesmen understood Japanese ideals and the -superiority of their habits and customs for the production of happy -human beings, they would never have waged war to keep them out of -the States. - - * * * - -"In three days we leave Japan," said Professor Oshima, as he sat -down to dinner one evening in the early part of April, 1960. - -"All?" asked Komoru, the Professor's secretary. - -"We four," replied Oshima, indicating those at the table, "the -children will stay with my mother. I'll need your assistance, and as -for Miss Ethel, she cannot well stay here, so I have had you two -listed. Although it's a little irregular, I am sure it will not be -questioned, for I know more about American soils than any other man -in Japan." - -Ethel glanced apprehensively at Komoru. She had never quite -understood her own attitude toward that taciturn young Japanese whom -she had seen daily for two years without hardly making his -acquaintance. She admired him and yet she feared him. - -Professor Oshima was saying that she had been "listed" with Komoru -for some great journey. What did it mean? What could she do? Again -she looked up at the secretary; but far from seeing any trace of -scheme or plot in his enigmatical countenance, she found him to be -considering the situation with the same equanimity with which he -would have recorded the calcium content of a soil sample. - -As for Professor and Madame Oshima, they seemed equally unruffled -about the proposed journey, and not at all inclined to elucidate the -mystery. Experience had taught the younger woman that when -information was not offered it was unwise to ask questions, so when -the Professor busied himself with much ransacking of his pamphlets -and papers and his wife became equally occupied with overhauling the -family wardrobe and getting the children off to their grandmother's, -Ethel accepted unquestionably the statement that she would be -limited to twenty kilograms of clothing and ten kilograms of other -personal effects, and lent assistance as best she could to the -enterprise in hand. - -On the third day the little party, with their light luggage boarded -a train for Hakodate, at which point they arrived at noon. Hurrying -along the docks among others burdened like themselves, they came to -a great low-lying, turtle-topped warship; and, passing down a -gangway, entered the brilliantly lighted interior. - -The constant flood of new passengers came, not in mixed and motley -groups, as the ordinary crowd of passengers, but by two, male and -female, as the unclean beasts into the ark. And they were all young -in years and athletic in frame--the very cream and flower of the -race. - - -[Illustration: Every few seconds an aeroplane shot into the air and -joined the endless winged line.] - - -Late that evening the vessel steamed out of port, and during the -next two days was joined by a host of other war craft, and the great -squadron moved in orderly procession to the eastward. - -One point, that Ethel soon discovered was that, in addition to being -excellent physical specimens, all the men, and many of the women, -were proficient as aviators. Of these facts life on board bore ample -evidence, for the great fan ventilated gymnasium was the most -conspicuous part of the ship's equipment and here in regular drills -and in free willed disportive exercise those on board kept -themselves from stagnation during the idleness of the voyage. Into -this gymnasium work Ethel entered with great gusto, for there was a -revelation in the discovery of her own physical capabilities that -surprised and fascinated her. - -In the other chief interest of her fellow passengers, Ethel was an -apt pupil, for though woefully ignorant of aviation, she was eager -to learn. She spent many hours in the company of Professor or Madame -Oshima, studying aeroplane construction and operation from the -displayed mechanisms on board. In fact, they found the great roomy -hold of the ship was packed with aeroplane parts. Small gasoline -turbines were stored in crates by the hundreds; also wings and -rudders knocked down and laid flat against each other and still -lower down in the framework of the floating palace were vast stores -of gasoline. - -At the end of two weeks the Japanese squadron was in latitude 34° -north, longitude 125° west, and headed directly for the Los Angeles -district of Southern California--the richest and most densely -populated area of the United States. - -One evening, just at dark, after they had been in sight of the -American aerial scouts all day, the Japanese fleet changed its -course and turned sharply to the southward. Now Panama was six days' -steaming from Los Angeles and less than three days from New Orleans. -So the authorities at Washington ordered all warships and available -soldiers on the Gulf Coast to embark for the Isthmus. - -Meanwhile there was much going on beneath the armor plate of the -Japanese transports, and on the fourth day of their southward -movement the great trap doors were swung down and aeroplane parts -were run out on the tramways, the planes rapidly set up by skilled -workmen, and firmly hooked to the floor. Above and below deck they -stood in great rows like lines of automobiles in a garage. - -Towards sundown the forward planes were manned and in quick -succession shot down the runways and took to the air. Ethel and her -companions were below air the time and hardly knew what was going -on. Their luggage had been taken up some time ago, except for an -extra kima, which they had been ordered to put on. In their turn -they were now called out and ordered to go above, that is, the names -of the men were called and Ethel knew that she was listed as Madame -Komoru, a thing that made her shiver every time it was brought to -her attention. - -An exclamation or astonishment escaped the lips of the more -impulsive American girl as she came on deck; for as far as the eye -could see the gray flat tops of the war vessels were covered with -the drab-winged planes, while every few seconds a plane shot into -the air and joined an endless winged line that stretched away to the -northeast. - -"Komoru eighty-five: Oshima eighty-six." - -The intent of that command was clear and Ethel was soon settled -immediately behind the young secretary in the little bamboo car of a -Japanese plane-of-war. - -The propeller started with a shrill musical hum; they raced down the -runway; dipped for a second toward the water; rose, and sailed -swiftly up and on toward the dark line of Mexico, that lay in the -evening shadow cast by the curved surface of the Pacific Ocean. - - -(To be continued.) - - - - - -PART TWO. - - -In the Clutch of the War-God - -THE TALE OF THE ORIENT'S INVASION OF THE OCCIDENT, AS CHRONICLED IN -THE HUMANICULTURE SOCIETY'S "NOTES ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY". - -By Milo Hastings - -Synopsis of Previous Installment: In the year -1958, Ethel Calvert, a daughter of an American -grain-merchant, residing in Japan, because of her -father's death in an anti-foreign riot, is forced -to take refuge with Madame Oshima, the French wife -of a Japanese scientist. She becomes accustomed to -the mode of living followed by the Japanese, and -is finally persuaded to adopt the costume of the -land of her exile. War is declared between Japan -and the United States, and Professor Oshima, and -Komoru, his Secretary, together with Madame Oshima -and Ethel Calvert, sail for United States in a -Japanese war vessel. When near the Pacific Coast, -the many men and women who have been passengers on -the vessel, leave the ship by means of aeroplanes, -and sail eastwardly over Southern California. - - - -The air cut by Ethel's face at a ninety-mile gait, and she gripped -nervously at the hand-rails of the car. Then, regaining confidence, -she began to drink in the novel view about her. Ahead were the -drab-winged aeroplanes growing smaller and smaller until they became -mere specks against the darkening sky. She turned to the rear and -watched the myriads of humans, like birds, rising from the -transports that still lay in the sunshine. There were literally -thousands of them. She wondered if human eyes had ever before -witnessed so marvelous a sight. - -They had come over the mainland of Mexico now and were flying at a -height of about half a mile. Shrouded in the tropical twilight, the -landscape below was but dimly discernible. As the darkness came on, -Ethel discovered that a small light glowed from the side of the car -in front of the driver. Gripping the hand-rail, she made bold to -raise herself; and, stopping beneath the searchlight and machine-gun -that hung, one beneath the other, on swivels in the center of the -framework, she peered forward over Komoru's shoulder. - -The taciturn steersman turned and smiled but said nothing. Ethel -noted carefully the equipment of the driver's box. It was a -duplicate throughout of the dummy steering gear with which she had -practiced in the ship's gymnasium. One conspicuous addition, -however, was an object illuminated by the small glow lamp that had -attracted her attention. This proved to be chart or map mounted at -either end on short rollers. As the girl watched it, she perceived -that it moved slowly. A red line was drawn across the map and -hovering over this was the tip of a metal pointer. A compass and a -watch were mounted at one side of the chart case. - -Ethel watched the chart creep back on its rollers and reasoned that -the pointer indicated the location of the aeroplane. She wondered -how the movement of the chart was regulated with that of the plane. -Finally she decided to ask Komoru. - -"By the landmarks and the time," he said. "Do you see that blue -coming in on the northeast corner of the map?" - -"Yes." - -"Well, watch it." - -After a few minutes of waiting the words "_Gulf of Mexico_" rolled -out upon the chart. "Why, that can't be," said Ethel, "we just left -the Pacific Ocean." - -"But we have crossed the Isthmus of Tehauntepec," replied Komoru; -"it is only a hundred miles wide." - -His companion looked over the side of the car and to the front and. -to the right, she could see by the perfectly flat horizon that they -were approaching water. - -"The map is unrolling too fast," said Komoru, as the pointer stood -over the edge of the indicated water--and he pushed back the little -lever on the clock mechanism that rolled the chart. "We have a -little head wind," he added. - -Ethel resumed her seat and sat musing for a half hour or so. Komoru -looked around and called to her. - -"Look over to your left," he said. "The lights of Vera Cruz. We are -making better time now," he added, again adjusting the regulator on -the clock work. - -The driver contemplated his compass carefully and shifted his course -a few points to the right. Ethel settled in her bamboo cage and -pulled her aviation cap down tightly to shield her face and ears -from the wind pressure. - -For hours they sat so--the girl's heart throbbing with awe, wonder -and fear; the man unemotional and silent, a steady, firm hand on the -wheel, his feet on the engine controls and his goggled eyes glancing -critically at compass or watch or out into the starlit waste of the -night, disturbed only by the whirl and shadow of other planes which -with varying speed passed or were passed, as the aerial host rushed -onward. There were only small tail lights, one above and one below -the main plane, to warn following drivers against collision. - - - * * * - -With her head bent low upon her knees, Ethel at length fell into a -doze. She was aroused by Komoru's calling, and straightening up with -a start, she arose and leaned forward over the driver. Komoru was -looking intently at the scroll chart. In a moment she designed the -cause of his interest, for there had rolled across the forward -surface of the chart the outline of a coast. - -In the far left-hand corner was marked the city of Galveston, and to -the right was the Sabine River that forms the boundary between Texas -and Louisiana. Ethel raised her eyes from the map and looked far out -to the Northwest. Sure enough, she discerned the lights of a city at -the point where Galveston was indicated by the chart. - -"How far have we come?" she asked in astonishment. - -"Eight hundred miles," replied Komoru. "See, it is nearly -two-thirty. The first men with the faster planes were to have -arrived at one o'clock." - -A little later they passed over the dimly discernible coast line, -some thirty or forty miles to the east of Galveston. Komoru -carefully consulted his compass, watch and aneroid, and made a -slight change in his course. - -"Where do we land?" asked the girl. - -Komoru steadied the wheel with one hand; and, reaching into the -breast pocket of his aviator's jacket, he produced a little -document-like roll. "These are the orders," he explained, and asked -Ethel to spread out the papers on the chart case. - -The instruction sheet read: - -"Fly twenty-eight minutes beyond the coast line, -which will place you ten or twenty miles northwest -of the town of Beaumont, where a fire of some sort -will be lighted about 3 a.m. - -"When you alight locate one or more farm houses -and attach one of the enclosed notices to the -door. - -"This done, fly toward the Beaumont signal fire -and assist in subduing the town and capturing all -petroleum works in the region. - -"At 6 a.m., if petroleum works are safe, follow -the lead of the red plane and fly northwest as far -as Fort Worth, returning by nightfall to oil -region." - - -Ethel read the paper over and over as she held it down out of the -wind by the dim glow lamp. She wanted to ask questions. She wondered -what was expected of her. She wondered again as to what was expected -of the entire invasion and why the women had been brought along. But -her questions did not find verbal expression, for she had schooled -herself to await developments. - -The roller chart had now come to a stop and showed the red line that -marked their course terminating in a cross to the northwest of the -town of Beaumont. Komoru tilted the plane downward and flew for a -time near the earth. Then checking the speed, he ran it lightly -aground in an open field a little distance from a clump of -buildings. - -The driver got out and stretched his cramped limbs. Taking a hand -glow lamp he ran carefully over the mechanism of the plane. Then he -opened a locker and took out two small magazine pistols. One he -handed to Ethel. - -"Don't use it," he said, "until you have to." - -"Will you go with me?" he asked, "to tack the poster, or will you -stay with the plane?" - -"I'll stay here," she replied. - -Komoru walked off rapidly towards the house. Presently the stillness -was interrupted by the vociferous barking of a dog; Then there was a -sound as of some one picking a taut wire and the voice of the dog -curdled in a final yelp. - -In a few minutes Komoru was back. "Dogs are no good," he said; "they -produce nothing but noise." - -"Will you kindly get aboard, Miss Ethel? There is much to do." - -[Illustration: By carefully shielding his flash lamp, Komoru was -able to read a duplicate of the notice he had just fastened up.] - -Ethel obeyed; meanwhile Komoru inspected the surface of the ground -for a few yards in front of the plane. Returning he climbed into his -seat and started the engine. They arose without mishap. - -Within a mile or two, Komoru picked out another farm house and made -a landing nearby. - -"I will go with you this time," said Ethel courageously. - -Approaching an American residence, Ethel suddenly found herself -conscious of the fact that she was dressed in a most unladylike -Japanese kimo. For a moment the larger sentiments of the occasion -were replaced by the womanly query, "What will people say?" Then she -laughed inwardly at the absurdity of her thought. - -Komoru produced the roll from his pocket and unwound a small cloth -poster. This he fastened to the door jam by pressing in the thumb -tacks that were sewed in the hem. Then noting another white blotch -on the opposite side of the door, he carefully shielded his lamp, -and made a light. It was a duplicate of the notice he had just -fastened up and read: - - -WARNING - -"Two hundred thousand Japanese have invaded Texas -and are desirous of possessing your property. You -are respectfully requested to depart immediately -and apply to your government for property -elsewhere. All buildings not vacated within -twenty-four hours will be promptly burned--unless -displaying a flag truce for sufficient reason. -Kindly co-operate with us in avoiding bloodshed. - - (Signed) The Japanese People." - -"We were late," said Komoru as they walked back toward the plane. -"Two hundred thousand," he mused; "what you call 'bluff,' I guess." - -"It's growing light," said Ethel, as they reached the plane. - -"Yes, a little," replied Komoru, as he walked around to the front. -"An ugly ditch," he said. "We shall have to use the helicopter." - -Taking his seat he threw down a lever and what had appeared to be -two small superimposed planes above the main plane assumed the form -of flat screws. Letting the engine gain full headway, Komoru threw -the clutch on this shafting, and the vertical screws started -revolving in opposite directions with a great downward rush of air. -The whole apparatus tilted a bit, and then slowly but steadily -arose. - -When they had reached altitude of a hundred feet or so, the driver -shifted the power to the quieter horizontal propeller and the plane -sidled off like an eagle dropping from a crag. - -Tilting the plane upward, Komoru circled for altitude. Presently he -called back over his shoulder, saying that he saw the signal fire at -Beaumont at the same time heading the plane in that direction. - -As the dawn began to break in the East, the occasional passing -lights of flying planes became less bright and soon the planes -themselves stood out against the sky like shadows. And then the -whole majestic train of aerial invaders became visible as they -poured over the southern horizon---a never ending stream. - -Komoru and Ethel landed in a meadow already well filled with planes -and following the others, hurried along toward the town. - -There had been some fighting in the streets and a few buildings were -burning. Walking along to the main street of the town, they came -upon a crowd of Japanese who were collected in front of a building -from which the contents were being dragged hastily. - -"What is it?" asked Komoru of one of the men. - -"Hardware store," replied the other; "we've rifled all of them for -the weapons and explosives." - -"Where are all the people?" asked Ethel. "The Americans--are they -killed or captured?" - -"They are at home in their houses," answered the man, who seemed -well posted. "I was with the first squad to arrive. We captured the -policemen and then took the telephone switchboard. Japanese -operators are in there now. They have called up every one in town -and explained the situation, and advised the people to stay indoors, -telling them that every house would be burned from which people -emerged or shots were fired. The operators are working on the rural -numbers yet. We hold the telegraph also, and are sending out -exaggerated reports of the size of the Japanese invasion." - - * * * - -A man wearing a blue sash came hurrying up. He stopped before the -group at the hardware store and gestured for silence. - -"The town is well in hand," he said, "and only those of you who are -detailed here as guards need remain longer; the others will get back -to their planes and await the rise of their designated leaders for -the flights of the day. - -"Come," said Komoru to his companion. But Ethel did not move. Her -mind was racked with perplexity. Here she was in a city of her own -people. Why should she continue to accompany this young Japanese -whom, despite his gentlemanly conduct, she instinctively feared? Yet -what else could she do? She was dressed in the peculiar attire of -the invaders, and would certainly have trouble in convincing an -American of her identity. - -[Illustration: As they passed near other planes, Ethel noted that in -many cases the women were driving.] - -"I must ask you to hurry," said Komoru, as the others moved off. -With an effort Ethel gathered her wavering emotions in hand and went -with him. If she must go, she reasoned it were well not to arouse -Komoru's suspicion of her loyalty. - -A few minutes later they were again in the air, following the lead -of a plane with bright red wings--the flag-ship, as it were, of the -group. - -In a half hour the expedition was approaching Houston. Coming over -the city, the leader circled high and waited until his followers -were better massed. - -"Are we going to attack the town?" inquired Ethel, as Komoru asked -her for the water-bottle. - -"Oh, no," he replied, "nothing of the sort; we are simply bluffing. -There are a number of expeditions going out to-day. We must make the -appearance of a great invasion." - -"How many planes are there all told?" - -Komoru smiled. "Not so many," he said. - -"But how many?" persisted Ethel. - -"Fifteen thousand, maybe," Komoru replied. - -"To invade a country with nearly two hundred million inhabitants! We -will surely all be killed." - -Komoru smiled. - -"By sheer force of numbers," explained Ethel. - -"Wait and see," replied her enigmatical companion. - -For hours the little aerial squadron sailed through the balmy air of -Texas. They passed over Austin and Waco and Fort Worth and Dallas. -They turned eastward and passed over Texarkana, and thence south to -impress the people of Shreveport. - -The excitement evinced in the towns increased as the news of their -flight was wired ahead. They were frequently shot at by groups of -excited citizens or occasional companies of militia, but at the -height and speed at which they were flying the bullets went wide. -One plane was lost. Something must have snapped. It doubled up and -went tumbling downward like a wounded pigeon. - -The sun was dropping toward the western horizon. The invaders had -been flying for ten hours. They had been without food or sleep for -thirty-six hours. Save for the brief relaxation of the morning, -Komoru had not taken his hands from the steering wheel, nor his foot -from the engine control since the previous sunset in the Bay of -Tehauntepec. - -[Illustration: The two women of Aryan blood worked together in the -cotton field side by side with the Orientals.] - -As they passed near other planes, Ethel noted that in many cases the -women were driving. Notwithstanding her dislike for him, the girl -found herself wishing that she could relieve Komoru. - -She pondered over his "wait and see" and began to discern a new -possibility in an invasion of thirty thousand Japanese. She tried to -imagine one of the society favorites of her Chicago girlhood sitting -in front of her driving that plane. She remembered distinctly that -aeroplane racing was a part of the diversion of such men and that -five or six hours of driving was considered quite a feat. - -The more she considered the man before her, the more she marvelled -at his powers. She confessed he interested her; she wondered why she -disliked him. The only answer that seemed acceptable was that he was -"not her kind." - -Towards dusk, they hove in sight of the derricks of the Beaumont oil -region. The leader with the red plane descended in a large meadow. -Komoru was well to the front and brought his plane to earth a few -meters from the red wings. The man in the flag plane who had that -day led them over a thousand miles and a score of cities got out and -stretched himself. With an exclamation of joyful surprise, Ethel -recognized that he was Professor Oshima. - -The Japanese camped where they were for the night. The wings of the -planes were guyed to the ground with cordage and little steel -stakes. Beneath such improvised tents the tired aerial cavalrymen -rolled themselves in their sleeping blankets and for twelve hours -the camp was as quiet as a graveyard. - -That day had been a great day in history; it was the first -consequential aerial invasion that the world had ever known. While -the arrivals of the morning had been circling in fear-inspiring -flights above the neighboring states, the later starters from the -Japanese squadron had continued to arrive in the oil regions. Like -migrating birds, they settled down over the rich fields and grazing -lands of that wonderful strip of flat, black-soiled prairie that -stretches westward from the south center of Louisiana until it -emerges into the great semi-arid cattle plains of southern Texas. - -The region, though one of the richest in the United States, was but -sparsely settled. Save for the few thousand white laborers who were -supported by the oil industry, the whole resident population were -negroes who were worked under imported white foremen in the rice and -truck lands of the region. - -The negroes were panic stricken by the Japanese invasion and made -practically no resistance. In two or three days, the country for a -forty-mile radius around Beaumont was cleared of Americans and -practically the entire oil region of Texas with its vast storage -tanks at Port Arthur on the Sabine River, were in the hands of the -invaders. - -There were not ten regiments of American soldiers within five -hundred miles. The great mass of the American army had been rushed -weeks before to southern California, and the remnant left in the -Gulf region had more recently been hastened to Panama. In fact, the -American squadron had steamed into Colon on the very morning the -Japanese alighted on Texas soil. - -On the second morning of their arrival, Japanese officials circling -above the captured region, roughly allotted the land to Captains -under whose leadership were a hundred planes each. The captains then -assigned each couple places to stake their plane, which were located -a hundred meters apart, allowing to each about two and a half acres -of land. - -Professor Oshima and Komoru, as soil chemists, were constantly on -the go making studies of the land and advising with the other -experts as to the crops to plant, and the methods of tillage for the -various locations. - -In the cotton lands, where Ethel and her associates were located, -the soil was immediately put to a fuller use. The cotton plants were -thinned and pruned and between the rows quick growing vegetables -were planted. Elsewhere the great pastures were broken up with -captured kerosene-driven gang plows and by dint of hard labor the -sod was quickly reduced to a fit state for intensive cultivation. - -The outside work of the professor and his secretary threw Ethel -altogether in the company of Madame Oshima. For this fact she was -very grateful, as her aversion to Komoru, to whom she was nominally -bound, grew more and more a source of worry and fear. So the two -women of Aryan blood worked together in the cotton field side by -side with the Orientals--worked and waited and wondered what was -awing in the surrounding world. - -The gasoline wagons came around and refilled the fuel tanks of the -planes. Mechanics inspected the engines carefully and replaced -defective parts. The rice cakes and soyu brought from Japan, had -been replaced by a diet of wheat and maize products and fresh fruits -and vegetables taken from the captured stores and gardens. Such -captured foods, however, had all been inspected by the dieteticians, -and those of doubtful wholesomeness destroyed or placed under lock -and key to be used only as a last resort. - -Thus weeks passed. The green things of Japanese planting had poked -their tender shoots through the black American soil. There had been -no fighting except in few cases, where a company of foolhardy -militia or a local posse had tried to attach the Japanese outposts. -American aeroplanes had wisely staid away. - -But the fight was yet to come. The Federal Government had recalled -its ships from Panama and was bringing back the soldiers from -California. On the great flat prairie between Galveston and Houston, -a mighty military camp was being established. Aeroplane sheds were -erected and repair shops built. Long lines of army tents were -pitched in close proximity. Army canteens were established that the -thirsty soldiers might get pure liquor and good tobacco and a few -rods away--over the line--other grog shops were opened wherein were -sold similar goods not so guaranteed. Gambling sharks arrived and -set up shell games and bedraggled prostitutes--outcasts from urban -centers of debauchery---came and camped nearby and made night -hideous with their obscene revelry. - -So the American soldier prepared for battle against the enemy who, -fifty miles away, slept undisturbed in the midst of gardens beneath -the wings of their aeroplanes. - -Never since Roman phalanx moved against the hordes of disorganized -barbarians had such extremes of method in warfare been pitted -against each other. Indeed it is doubtful if the invasion of the -Japanese should be called war at all. They were not blood-thirsty. -In fact, the Japanese invaders had sent word to the American -Government asserting their peaceful intentions if they were -unmolested, though threatening dire vengeance by firing cities and -poisoning water supplies if they were attacked. - -Madame Oshima shook her head. "Such talk is only pretense," she -said, "the Japanese intend to live in America and would never so -embitter the people--and it will not be necessary." - -Ethel was in doubt. She pictured the Japanese planes flying above -the unprotected inland cities dropping conflagration bombs upon -shingled roof or casks of prussic acid into open reservoirs. She -wished she were out of it all. She wanted to escape and yet she knew -not how. - -The Americans made no hasty attacks. They feared the threats of the -Japanese and awaited the gathering of many hundred thousand -soldiers. At the end of four weeks the American army was spread in a -giant semi-circle surrounding the Japanese encampment from coast to -coast. Along the Gulf Coast was also a line of American battleships, -so that the Japanese encampment was entirely surrounded with an -almost continuous line of aeroplane destroying guns. - -All preparations were at last complete and with cavalry beneath and -aeroplanes above, the American strategists planned a dash across the -Japanese territory with the belief that the outlying lines of -artillery would bring to earth those that succeeded in getting into -the air. - - * * * - -One evening at the hour of twilight, messengers passed rapidly among -the Japanese distributing maps and orders to prepare for flight. - -Late that night, their possessions made ready for flight, Komoru and -Ethel sat with Professor and Madame Oshima beneath the latter's -plane. - -"Our scouts have come to the conclusion," said Oshima, "that a -cavalry attack is to be expected in the early morning. So our plan -is for a signal plane to rise at two o'clock directly over the -center of our territory. It will carry a bright yellow light. -Beginning with the outlying groups our forces are to fly toward the -light, rising as they go. Attaining an altitude of two miles they -are thence to fly due north as our maps show. We will suffer some -loss, but two miles high and at night I guess American gunners will -not inflict great damage." - -Ethel shuddered. - -"Do you think the American aviators will follow us?" asked Komoru. - -"That depends," replied the older man, "upon the reception we give -them; we have them outnumbered." - -"They carry men gunners," said Madame Oshima. - -"So," said the Professor, "but shooting from an aeroplane depends -not so much upon the gunner as upon the steersman. Their planes -wabble, the metal frame work is too stiff, it doesn't yield to the -air pressure." - -Along such lines the conversation continued for an hour or so. -Neither the men nor Madame Oshima seemed the least bit excited over -the prospects; but Ethel, striving to keep up external appearances, -was inwardly torn with warring emotions. - -Making an excuse of wishing to look for something among her luggage, -the girl finally escaped and walked quickly toward the other plane. -But instead of stopping, she passed by and continued down between -the rows of cotton, avoiding as much as possible the lights that -dotted the field about her. - -"Oh, God!" she repeated under her breath; "Oh, God! I can't go! I -won't go!" - -For some time she walked on briskly trying to calm her feverish mind -and reason out a sane course of procedure. - -She was passing thus where the lights of two planes glowed fifty -meters at either side, when she stumbled heavily over some dark -object between the cotton rows. She turned to see what it was; and, -bending forward, discerned in the starlight the body of a man. She -started to run; then, fearing pursuit the more, checked her speed. -As she did so some one grasped her arm and a heavy hand was clapped -over her mouth. - -"Keep quiet," commanded her captor hoarsely. In another instant he -had bent her back over his knee and thrown her--or rather dropped -her for she did not resist--upon the soft earth beneath. - -"If you make a sound, I'll have to shoot," he said, resting a heavy -knee upon her chest and clasping her slender wrist in a vise-like -grip of a single hand. - -The girl breathed heavily. - -The man reached toward his hip pocket and drawing forth a bright -metallic object held it close to her face. Her breath stopped short. -Then a flood of light struck her full in the eyes, as her captor -pressed the button on his flash lamp. - -"God! a woman!" the man gasped. The exclamation and voice were -clearly not Japanese. - -Ethel felt the grip loosen from her wrists and the weight shift from -her chest. - -"You're no Japanese!" he said under his breath, at the same time -letting the glowing flash lamp fall from his hand. - -Presently Ethel raised her head and reached for the lamp where it -lay wasting its rays against the black soil. She now turned the glow -on the other and saw kneeling beside her a young man in American -clothes. He was hatless and coatless and his soft gray shirt was -torn and mud bespattered. A massive head of uncombed hair crowned a -handsome forehead, but the face beneath was marred by a stubby -growth of beard. - -"Who are you?" whispered Ethel finding her voice. - -"Put out the light," he commanded, reaching forward to take it from -her. - -"Who are you?" he asked reversing the query as they were again in -darkness. - -"I'm a girl," said Ethel. - -The man laughed softly. - -"I'm not," he said. - -Ethel drew herself into a sitting posture. "Which side of this war -are you on?" she asked. - -The man was afraid to commit himself--then a happy thought struck -him. "The same side that you are," he answered diplomatically. - -It was Ethel's turn to smile. - -"You are an American?" she ventured at length. - -"Yes," he said. "So are you?" - -"Yes." - -"Then why are you wearing Japanese clothes?" - -"Because--" she said hesitatingly, "I haven't any others." - -For some minutes he said nothing. - -"Are you going to give the alarm of my presence?" he asked at -length. - -"No." - -"Then I'll go," he said. - -Rising from his knees, but still stooping, he made off rapidly down -the cotton row. - -Ethel breathed deeply. Confused thoughts flashed through her mind. -She would not return to go with Komoru; in her Japanese garb she -feared the early morning sweep of American cavalry; but to the man -who had just left her, why could she not explain? - -Without further debate, she arose, and at top speed ran after the -retreating figure. - - - - - -The next instalment of this absorbing tale will -appear in the September issue of PHYSICAL CULTURE. -It tells of how the Japanese attempt to obtain -control of the United States through scientific -measures rather than barbarous warfare, and is -wonderfully interesting and readable. Don't miss -it. - - - -PART THREE. - - -In the Clutch of the War-God - -THE TALE OF THE ORIENT'S INVASION OF THE OCCIDENT, AS CHRONICLED IN -THE HUMANICULTURE SOCIETY'S "NOTES ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY" - -By Milo Hastings - -SYNOPSIS: In the year of 1958, Ethel Calvert, a -daughter of an American grain-merchant, residing -in Japan, because of her father's death in an -anti-foreign riot, is forced to take refuge, with -Madame Oshima, the French wife of a Japanese -scientist. She becomes accustomed to the land and -mode of living followed by the Japanese, and is -finally persuaded to adopt the costume of the land -of her exile. War is declared between Japan and -the United States, and Professor Oshima, and -Komoru, his Secretary, together with Madame Oshima -and Ethel Calvert, sail for the United States in a -Japanese war vessel. When near the Pacific Coast, -the many men and women who have been passengers on -the vessel, leave the ship by means of aeroplanes, -and sail eastwardly toward Texas, where they -establish plantations and conduct a desultory -warfare by aeroplanes with United States troops. -While working in the fields Ethel discovers a -young American in concealment. He warns her to -keep silent, and immediately runs away. - - - -In a few minutes Ethel had caught up with the man who, more -cautiously, ran before her. Checking her speed, she followed -silently. - -For a half-mile she pursued him thus. He came to the end of the -field and dodged into the thicket of bushes that lined the fence -row. He moved more slowly now, and she followed by sound rather than -by sight. At length they came to where a brook ran at right angles -to the fence row. The man stopped and crawled under the barbed-wire -fence and came out on the turnpike that ran alongside. - -Ethel, peering out from the bushes, saw him walk boldly forward and -stand upon the end of the stone culvert that conducted the brook -beneath the roadway. For a moment only he remained so, and then -clambered quickly down at the end of the arch and disappeared in the -darkness beneath. She heard a foot splash in the water, and then all -was quiet save the gurgle of the stream. - -Climbing over the fence, she top ran forward upon the culvert. She -listened and looked toward either end, resolved to call to him if he -emerged. - -As she stood waiting she saw the yellow signal light rise in spirals -higher and higher and then circle slowly in one location. A few -minutes later the dim tail lights of the planes came up out of the -horizon and flew towards the signal light. - -After a half-hour of waiting, she boldly resolved to enter the -hiding place of the man she had followed. - -Cautiously feeling her way, she clambered down over the end of the -culvert and peered into its black archway. - -At first, dimly and then with brighter flash, she saw a light -within. Creeping slowly forward, wading in the stream and stumbling -over rough blocks of stone, she made toward the light. Midway the -passage, the side wall of the culvert had fallen or been torn down -and there in a little damp clay nook, sitting hunched upon a rock -was the silhouette of the unshaven man. - -Beyond him glowed the dim light and by its faint rays he was -hurriedly writing in a note book. - -With a start he became aware of her presence, and turned the -flash-light upon her. - -"I followed you," she stammered. "I want to explain. I'm an American -girl captive among the Japanese." - -He stared at her quizzically in the dim light. - -"I ran from you," he said, "because I was afraid to trust you--there -are a number of Europeans among the Japanese forces. I couldn't know -that you wouldn't have given the alarm, and for one man to run from -fifty thousand isn't cowardice; it's common sense--even bravery, -perhaps, when there's a cause at stake." - -"I understand," replied the girl. - -"Won't you be seated?" he said, arising and offering her his place -on the rock. She accepted, and he asked her for more of her story. - -In reply she told him whom she was and related as briefly as she -could the incidents of her life that accounted for her peculiar -predicament. - -"I suppose I owe you something of an explanation, too;" he said, -when she had finished. "My name is Winslow--Stanley Winslow; I am ---or at least was---the editor of the _Regenerationist_. Do you know -what that is?" - -Ethel confessed, that she did not. - -"Perhaps I flatter myself, but then I suppose you have had no chance -to keep up on American affairs." - -Just then a crash, followed by a whirring, clattering noise broke in -above the sound of the man's voice and the gurgle of the brook -running through their hiding-place. - -"What's that?" Winslow exclaimed, starting towards the end of the culvert. - -[Illustration: She was washing her woven grass sandals by rubbing -the soles together in the stream.] - -Ethel followed him. Before they reached the open the trees in front -of them were lit up by the lurid light of a fire. Beside the road a -hundred yards away was the crumpled mass of a metallic aeroplane. -The gasolene tank had burst open and was blazing furiously. - -"Americans," said Winslow; "let's see if the crew are dead." - -The gasolene had largely spent itself by the time they reached the -plane. - -Poking about in the crumbled debris, they found the driver impaled -upon a lever that protruded from his back. - -"I wonder what grounded her," mused Winslow, as he inspected the -dead man with his flash-lamp. "Oh! here we are! Good shooting that," -he added, pointing with his lamp to a soggy hole in the side of the -man's head. - -"I guess they're at it," he said, pressing out his light and turning -his eyes skyward. - -The woman, speechless, followed his gaze. Across the sky flashed -here and there brilliant beams of search-lights, but far more -numerous were the swiftly moving star-like tail-lights of the -Japanese planes. - -Now and again they heard the crackling of machine guns, occasionally -the burr of a disordered propeller and once the faint call of a -human voice. - -"Look," said Ethel, pointing to the southward. "See that brilliant -yellow light. It's the Japanese signal plane; they are all to fly in -towards it, and then, soaring high will escape over the American -lines." - -"The lines are a joke," returned Winslow. "It's plane against plane. -And the Japs will get the best of it; or at least they'll get away, -which is all they want. They are going to Dakota, where five train -loads of gasolene will be setting on a siding waiting to be -captured. We printed the story ten days ago, though the -administration papers hooted at the idea." - -As they walked back toward the culvert, Ethel stumbled over -something in the roadway. She asked for the light, and discovered to -her horror that she was standing in the midst of the remnants of a -man who had been spattered over the hard macadam of the turnpike. - -"Ugh! take me away," she shuddered, averting her eyes and running -toward the stream, - -"The gunner fell out of the plane when she lurched, I guess," -commented Winslow to himself, examining the shreds of clothing -attached to the mangled remains beneath him. - -For some reason Winslow did not immediately follow the girl but went -back and looked over the wrecked plane again. - -He removed the magazine pistol from the impaled man's pocket and -searched about in the locker until he found a supply of cartridges. - -The sky was beginning to brighten from approaching dawn now, and the -searchlight flashes were less brilliant. Winslow stood gazing upward -until the forms of the lower flying planes became visible. Suddenly -he saw a disabled plane come somersaulting out of the air and fall -into a field quarter of a mile away. Evidently there were explosives -aboard, for a shower of flame, smoke and splinters arose where she -fell. - -The onlooking man hopped over the fence and ran toward the spot. -There was little to be seen--a mere ragged hole in the sod. As he -unconcernedly walked back he passed at intervals a propeller blade -sticking upright in the soil, a broken can of rice cakes and a -woman's hand. - -The dawn had now so far progressed that the observer could see some -order in the movement of the air craft. He studied with fascination -the last of the Japanese planes as they circled up toward their -aerial guide-post and moved thence in a steady stream to the -northward. - -The American planes which had been harassing and firing on the -Japanese as they circled for altitude, now turned and closed in on -the rear of the enemy and the fighting was fast and furious. Plane -after plane tumbled sickeningly out of the sky. But for Winslow the -sight lasted only a few minutes, for the combatants were flying at -full speed and soon became mere flitting insects against the gray -light of the morning sky. - -Striding down the roadway past the mangled body of the American -gunner, Winslow reached the culvert. - -Ethel Calvert was sitting on a flat stone at the edge of the water. -She held her woven grass sandals in her hands and was washing them -by rubbing the soles together in the stream. - -As Winslow looked down at her in silence, the girl looked up and -eyed him curiously. Neither spoke. The man stooped and washed his -hands in the brook and then stepping up-stream a few paces he drank -from the rivulet. - -Returning he regarded the girl. She had placed her sandals beyond -her on the grassy bank and sat with her bare feet in the shallow -stream. Her head, buried in her arms, rested upon her knees. The -slender shoulders now shook convulsively and the sound of a sob -escaped her. In the calmness of his cynicism, the man sat down on -the rock and placed a strong arm around the trembling woman. - -[Illustration: In another moment, he turned in a gap through the -fence and rode down upon the fleeing woman.] - -"I know," he said, "it's a dirty damned mess, but we didn't start -it." - -After a time the girl raised her head. "I know we didn't start it," -she said; "but isn't there something we can do to stop it?" - -"Well," he replied slowly, "I rather hope to have a hand in stopping -it, and perhaps you can help." - -"How?" - -"Surely you can do as much in stopping it as one of those poor -devils that get smashed does in keeping it going," he went on. - -"How?" she repeated. - -"Well, that's quite a long story," he replied; "if you don't already -know." - -"I told you who I was." - -"Yes." - -"Well, the Regenerationists, along with many other sincere men and -women in this country tried to prevent this war and are trying to -get it peaceably settled now. The Japs don't want to die. They want -a chance to live. We've got a lot of vainglorious, debauched, -professional soldiery that wanted to fight something, and now -they're getting their fill. In the first place, there is no need of -war and in the second place, when there is war, the same stamina -that will make efficient humans for the ordinary walks of life will -make good soldiers. But money talks louder than reason. The ruling -powers in American government are a crew of beer-bloated politicians -who are in the pay of a cabal of wine-soaked plutocrats, and the -American people under such administration have become a race of -mental and physical degenerates. The Japs knew this or they would -never have invaded the country." - -"What are you going to do about it? And what are you doing here now -within the Japanese lines?" asked Ethel when her companion paused. - -"Oh, I am acting as my own war correspondent," he replied, smiling a -little. - -"_Pat-a-pat, pat-a-pat_"--Winslow jumped up excitedly and clambered -to the top of the embankment. - -Ethel noting his alarm, slipped her feet into her sandals and rose -to follow him. - -"Quick," he exclaimed, hurrying down the bank again. "It's American -cavalry." - -"But let us go meet them," said the girl. - -"No, never," replied Winslow, taking her by the arm and hurrying her -into the culvert. "You don't understand. As for you in kimo, your -reception would be anything but pleasant; and as for me, I'm an -outlaw with a price on my head." - -Reaching the chink where the rocks had fallen out of the culvert -wall, Winslow squeezed into it and pulled the girl down beside him. -Carefully he crowded her feet and his own back so that their -presence could not be detected from the end of the culvert. - -"I'm afraid we left tracks on the bank, but we can at least die -game," he said, pulling his magazine pistol from his belt and -handing it to the girl, while he drew from his hip pocket the weapon -he had taken from the dead aviator. - -"I hate these things," he said, "but when a man is in a corner and -no chance to run, I suppose he's justified in using a cowardly -fighting machine." - -They heard clearly now the hoof beats on the roadway above. -Presently an officer rode his horse down to the stream at the head -of the culvert. "Anything under there?" called a voice from above. - -"Nothing doing," replied the other, peering beneath the archway. - -"You're a fool sitting there like that," called a third voice. -"Company C lost two men back there from a wounded Jap under a -bridge." - -The horseman urged his beast up the bank and the troop passed on. - -For some hours the man and the girl remained in the culvert; -meanwhile Winslow explained the Regenerationist movement, which was -not as his enemies interpreted, a traitorous party favoring the -Japanese, but only a group of thinkers who advocated principles not -unlike those which had made the Japanese such a superior race either -at peace or at war. - -As she listened, it seemed to Ethel as if her own dream had come -true, for here indeed was a man of her own blood with stamina of -physique and mental and moral courage, who professed and practiced -all she had found that was good among the people of her enforced -adoption and in addition much that, to her with her racial prejudice -in his favor, seemed even better than the ways of Japanese. - -In reply to her questions as to the cause of his outlawry, Winslow -explained that he and other leaders of his party had long been at -swords' points with the conservatives who were in power and that the -administration, taking advantage of the martial frenzy of the war, -were persecuting the Regenerationists as supposed traitors. - - * * * - -As the sun indicated mid-forenoon the dishevelled editor of the -Regenerationist and his newly found follower sauntered forth and -took to the turnpike. - -"We may as well be on the road," he argued. "The sooner the American -people get the inside facts of this affair the sooner they will -decide to stop it, and it's forty-five miles to the nearest place -where I can get in touch with my people." - -Bareheaded, through the hot sun, they travelled rapidly along the -turnpike, keeping a sharp lookout for occasional parties of cavalry -and hiding in the fields until they passed. Sometimes they talked of -the contrasted ways of life in Japan and in America, and again -Winslow wrote hurriedly in his note-book as he walked. - -About three o'clock in the afternoon they stopped in the shade where -a rivulet fell over a small cataract. - -"Aren't you hungry?" asked Ethel, after they had drunk from the -brook. - -"I don't know. I hadn't thought of it particularly," replied her -companion. "Let's see, the last time I ate was in a farmhouse north -of Houston. That was eight days ago. When have you last eaten?" - -"Yesterday morning," replied the girl. - -"Then you are probably hungrier than I am." - -With their conversation and the murmur of the waterfall they had -failed to detect the approach of two cavalry officers, who, walking -their tired mounts, had come up unheeded. - -"Hey! look at the beauty in breeches!" called one of the approaching -men. - -[Illustration: He rolled a bundle of "Regenerationists" on the wing -of the aeroplane below.] - -"Her for mine," returned the other. - -"I saw it first--hie!" returned the first, drawing rein. - -"Give it to me, you hog; you've got one!" - -"All right, all right--go take it--maybe the bum will object," -laughed the first, as the unshaven Winslow advanced in front of the -girl. - -"Run quick," called Winslow to Ethel. "They're too drunk to shoot -straight." - -The turnpike was inclosed by a high, woven-wire fence, and the girl -obeying turned down the road. Her would-be claimant put spurs to his -horse and dashed after her, leaving Winslow covering the rear -horseman with his magazine pistol. - -"Well," said the drunken officer weakly, "I ain't doing nothing." - -"Then ride down the road the other way as fast as you can go." - -The officer obeyed. - -For a moment Winslow watched him and then turned to see Ethel -climbing over the woven-wire fence with the soldier trying to urge -his horse up the embankment to reach her. - -Winslow started to run to the girl's rescue, but no sooner had he -turned than a bullet sang past his ear. Wheeling about he saw the -other cavalryman riding toward him firing as he came. - -With lewd brutality calling for vengeance in one direction and a man -firing at his back from the other, Winslow's aversion to bloodshed -became nil; and, aiming cool, he began firing at the approaching -officer. - -It must have been the horse that got the bullet, for with the third -shot mount and rider somersaulted upon the macadam. - -Without compunction, Winslow turned and sprinted down the roadway. -He saw Ethel dashing across the field, hurdling the cotton rows. The -officer was racing down the road, seeming away from her, but in -another moment he turned through a gap in the fence and rode down -upon the fleeing woman. - -The athletic Winslow vaulted the six-foot fence with an easy spring, -and tore madly through the obstructing vegetation. - -The rider overtaking the woman, tried to hold her, first by the arm, -and failing in that, he grabbed her by the hair. Winslow wondered -why she did not shoot him, and then he recalled that he was carrying -both weapons. - -In another instant he was up with them and had dragged the man from -his horse and flung him to the ground. The soldier kicked and swore, -but half drunk, his resistance was of small consequence to his -well-trained adversary. - -"Here," called Winslow to the girl, who had tumbled down in a heap -more from fright than physical exhaustion, "come and get my knife -and cut the rein from the horse's bridle." - -Thus equipped, the two strapped their captive's hands and one foot -together behind him. - -"There now," said Winslow, as he relieved the officer of his weapon. -"Hop back to the bridge and look after your comrade. He fell on the -turnpike a while ago and I'm afraid he hurt his head. We'll have to -be going." - -"Shall we take the horse?" asked Ethel. - -"No," replied her companion, beginning to throw clods at the animal, -"we'll simply run him away. As for us, we are safer on foot, and -will in the long run make better time." - -"You are not tired, are you?" he asked, as they turned into the -roadway again. - -"No," she replied, "only a bit tired and weak from my scare. How far -have we come?" - -"Fifteen miles, perhaps; I really hardly know; we've been -interrupted so much." - -They made a long detour through the fields to avoid a group of -buildings. Striking the road again, they soon came upon a slight -rise of land that stood well above the level of the surrounding -country. - -"Are we not rather conspicuous here?" asked the girl. - -"Well, rather," admitted her companion, pausing to look around; "but -I guess we can see as far as we can be seen." - -"Look! look!" called Ethel excitedly, jerking her companion's arm -and pointing to the south, where the flat horizon was broken by the -derricks and tanks of the oil fields. - -At first Winslow saw nothing, and then shading his eyes he sighted -what looked like a great bevy of birds flying just above the -horizon. - -Larger and larger grew the specks against the sky. - -"They will be over us in fifteen minutes," said Winslow; "let's get -up in that oak over there, where we can see without being seen." - -Safely hidden by the enveloping foliage, the man and the girl now -watched the approach of the planes. As they came over the oil region -the planes began swooping near the ground and then rapidly rising -again. - -"Its Japanese after the American cavalry, I guess," said Winslow. In -a few minutes black smoke belched forth at numerous points from the -petroleum works. - -After a time a cloud of dust arose from a great meadow that spread -for several miles to the north of the oil wells. A group of -aeroplanes hovered closely above the dust cloud and kept up that -periodical swooping towards the earth. - -"It's stampeding cavalry," said the sharp-eyed Ethel, "and the -airmen are dropping bombs on them." - -The cloud of dust came nearer and nearer until they could see the -swift fall of the deadly missiles from the swooping planes and the -havoc wrought in the straggling ranks by the showers of pellets from -the shrapnel exploding above their heads. - -When the foremost of the cavalry troop were perhaps a quarter of a -mile from the observers, a commanding officer, who was riding well -in the lead, wheeled his horse, threw away his jacket, tore off his -white shirt and waived it frantically above his head. - -An answering truce flag soon appeared from a plane above and the -jaded horsemen, riding up, drew rein and waited. - -The truce plane now swooped low and dropped a message fastened to a -white cloth. A soldier caught it and brought it to the officer, who -signalled assent. - -Orders were called along the line, and the men filed by and piled -their weapons in an inglorious heap. - -After this most of the lazy circling planes rose and made off to the -left, while a few assigned to guard duty circled above the -retreating cavalry, as they moved off slowly in the opposite -direction. - -Two belated members of the troop, who had lost their horses, flung -themselves down to rest for a moment in the lengthening shadow of -the oak tree. - -"Oh Gawd!" said one, as he panted and mopped his forehead. "Oh Gawd! -I was scared! That damned shrapnel bursting right over us and no -chance to fight back or get away. It ain't no fair fighting like -that--you can't get at 'em." - -"They've tricked us, they have," returned his companion. "Our own -airmen's up in Nebraska chasing the Japs that gave us the slip this -morning, and here these damn hawks come swooping in. I reckon it's -reinforcements from Japan. The transports that brought the first -bunch must have been back and got another load, and this time it -seems to be regular soldiers--here to kill--the others were just -decoys." - -"No, they ain't exactly decoys; they're here to stay and raise -families, and damned if that ain't what I'm going to do, if I ever -get out of this. Gawd! our loss must be something awful, and they're -at it yet. Look! see 'em over there by Beaumont like a flock of -crows. The bunch that got us was just a few of them." - -For a time both soldiers eyed the distant fighting. - -"When I get out of this," continued the first speaker; "when I get -out, I'm going to join the Regenerationists." - -"What's that; peace cranks?" - -"Yep; but it's more than that, it's health cranks and temperance -cranks, and moral cranks, and socialist cranks, and every other kind -of crank that believes in people being decent and living -happy--health, quiet lives, instead of fighting and robbing -and--boozing and abusing themselves and each other to death." - -"Oh, Hell! don't preach just because you're scared," said the other, -getting up. - -"Call it preaching if you like, but believe me, I've been getting -letters from the folks back home, and my people ain't such poor -stuff either, if I did join the army, and I want to tell you that -such preaching is getting damn popular lately. This fall's election, -you know, and the way we've been done up here to-day, will have a -lot to do with the outcome." - -"We'd better move," said the other, looking up. "That Jap up there -thinks we're going back after our guns." - - * * * - -With the oil regions again in the hands of the vigilant Japanese, -Winslow and Ethel found escape more perilous and difficult. But on -the third night they succeeded in getting through the lines and -reaching Winslow's confederates, who were awaiting him near St. -Charles, La. From hence they travelled by aeroplane to a secluded -railroadless valley in the heart of the Ozarks. - -It was here that the secret printing plant of the _Regenerationist_ -had been established. Ethel knew nothing of printing or journalism, -but a place was found for her in the department of circulation. - -While news could be received via wireless, the paper and supplies, -as well as the men who went to and fro from the secret printing -plant of the outlawed publication, had to be transported by plane. -Aviators with sufficient skill and daring for the task were hard to -find. Already at home in the air, it was only a few days until Ethel -was driving a plane on a paper route. - -The seven hundred miles to Denver she covered one night, returning -the next. She started out with half a ton of papers--seventy-two -thousand copies--which in suitable bundles were dropped by the boy -in the center of the triangular signal fires which local agents -built at night in open fields. - -Once she lost her load by a fall in the Kansas River, and once she -ran out of fuel and held up a rich country house at the point of a -pistol and demanded the supply of automobile gasoline. - -Worst of all, she was chased one night by a government secret -service plane. Despairing of outflying them, she got and held the -position directly above their craft, while the boy rolled a -two-hundred-pound bale of _Regenerationists_ over on the other's -wing and sent the Federal airmen somersaulting into eternity. - -But these stirring times did not last long. With the second Japanese -invasion and the Orientals now established in two widely separated -sections of the country, the authorities at Washington soon acceded -to a truce, and one of the immediate results was abolition of -martial law and re-establishment of a free press. - -Throughout the summer, in the rice lands in the South, and the wheat -lands of the North, the Japanese lived, harmless gardeners of their -newly acquired possessions. But their gasoline tanks were full and -they carried sufficient conflagration bombs to have fired every city -from New Orleans to St. Paul, had the truce been broken by American -treachery. - -The _Regenerationist_, now removed to St. Louis, was again a -full-sized newspaper. The party in power, supported by the -capitalistic and military classes, preached old-fashioned patriotism -and with martial music and flying flags tried to enthuse the people. -But the terror of the American soldiery in the unfair battle of -Beaumont had gone abroad throughout the land. The people feared the -draft for military service--they feared the firing of the -cities--the poisoning of their water supplies and a hundred other -spectres which in the minds of a degenerate and servile city -population the presence of a successful aerial enemy had inspired. - -The reform party of the _Regenerationists_ had by the fortunes of -war achieved a tremendous growth. Their recruits came both from the -better element who had thus been awakened from their lethargy, and -from the cowardly rabble who supported peace because of the terror -in their hearts. - -Gerald Stoddard, Chancellor of the University of Illinois, a big -sound man of clean mind and clean body, was chosen as the radical -presidential candidate, and won with an overwhelming majority. - -His election meant peace between the warring powers, and strong -likelihood of peace in the world for all time to come. It also meant -other things. It meant the complete inversion of the American policy -and the welcoming of science as the servant of mankind's larger -needs and not merely a flunky to the degenerate, luxury-loving few. - -President-elect Stoddard, with masterful hand, began at once the -organization of the new administration. Among the appointees whom he -early announced was that of Stanley Winslow, to the position of -Secretary of Public Health. - -In his telegram of acceptance, Winslow said: - -"In signifying my intention of accepting the position of Secretary -of Public Health in your Cabinet, I wish to say that it will be my -sole purpose to prove myself possessed of the larger patriotism -which would defend our race against retrogression and annihilation, -not by such antiquated and inefficient methods as immigration -restriction or mechanical warfare, but by the improvement of the -race itself." - -And Ethel, too, sent a telegram. It read: - -PROFESSOR AND MADAME OSHIMA, - JAPANESE OCCUPATION, - SOUTH DAKOTA. - -As soon as travel is freely established come and visit us. When are -the children coming over? - - ETHEL CALVERT WINSLOW, - Care the _Regenerationist_. - -St. Louis, Mo. - -But of Komoru she said not a word. She couldn't forget the -unfathomable look in his eyes. 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