The Avenger 17 - Nevlo
“The second one, lasting for minutes, had been commented on widely. And the comments were growing. In fact, they were mounting into a sort of continental hysteria that embraced Canada as well as the United States.
All power blanked out for over a quarter of an hour! All power—airplane and automobile and motorboat systems as well as great power generators! It was as horrible in its implications as it was incredible.
There were several wild theories to account for the thing. The most commo...nly held was that a hostile foreign power had done it as an experiment, perhaps to prove to its military staff that it could be done, perhaps as a terrifying groundwork for some piratical military demand to be made in the near future.
A war measure! The United States and Canada perhaps to be drawn at last, directly, into war on their own soil!
Several scores of war-weary refugees, who had fled to America in a last, desperate effort to escape wars’ madness, became hysterical and committed suicide, utterly unable to face once more the inhumanities of modern warfare.MoreLess
All power blanked out for over a quarter of an hour! All power—airplane and automobile and motorboat systems as well as great power generators! It was as horrible in its implications as it was incredible.
There were several wild theories to account for the thing. The most commo...nly held was that a hostile foreign power had done it as an experiment, perhaps to prove to its military staff that it could be done, perhaps as a terrifying groundwork for some piratical military demand to be made in the near future.
A war measure! The United States and Canada perhaps to be drawn at last, directly, into war on their own soil!
Several scores of war-weary refugees, who had fled to America in a last, desperate effort to escape wars’ madness, became hysterical and committed suicide, utterly unable to face once more the inhumanities of modern warfare.MoreLess
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