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RED TERROR
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SCODA DOCKYARDS. Harbin Concern Bought
By Kawasaki's.
least two nights more; by that time It was sighted to the south of hovering machine, equipped to travel he would have completed his Own Santiago de Chile; later to the north at a height greater than that achiev-
The Kawasaki Dockyard Com- of Mangonul, New Zealand. In
ed by Professor Piccard's balloon as pany has purchased the Scoda Sydney, New South Wales, Austra cent, in which Gottlieb hoped to reach Dockyard, Harbin, for Y.30,000. lia, startled thousands watched its.
the space-ship itself. coming. It claimed a victim at painted red. I will pilot it myself up tons. The Kawasaki management
"My
The Dockyard is equipped for hoverer will, of course, be building launches of 400 to 500 Wallaroo and another near Bridge-ship with an aerial torpedo. To do wishes to expand this" Dockyard,
red light and try to disable their town, Western Australia, before moving again westward to vanish party of raiders
this it is necessary that the landing though it denies the report that it with the coming of day.
must be prevented will invest Y.1,500,000 in the near from following. They must be held Where science had not reached, are crossing the beam. But the raid- the ground by a barrage of gun- to
future. men stared and feared, telling eashers in their invisible hoverer must not by Baron Go and Mr. Hijikata, Mr. Hirao, who has been asked other of earthquakes, pestilence and be fired on-they must be captured Governor of the Bank of Japan, to doom which followed signs in the and qucationed in their turn." heavens. That day savages made again, and its track
That night the Red Terror,came investigate has not yet sent any bloody sacrifice to appease the an-line of 60 degrees north latitude. It says that the Seoda yard is worth was along the reply. Interviewed, however, he ger of their tribal deities, and in all was visible first from the fishing vil taking over. civilised countries the clanging bells lages at the southern edge of Green- in a million church towers and
land; it halted at Skagway, Alaska.Į steeples summoned the people to Russia. used a terrible panie in Dass across Siberia and Northern prayer.
Petrograd. The countries in its track were warned by radio.
“HOKKAI MARU.”
Maru,"
The League of Nations, until nowj regarded with cynicism because of "It is coming!" The ery was taken! its fallure to settle international Despite warnings, over-bold investiga-
The first two motors of the new in Finland, Sweden and Norway. Mitsubishi two-stroke single-acting disputes, despised as a useless and tors still ventured into the light when design will be installed in the fast costly encumbrance, suddenly found it haltet, and vanished before the cargo itself supremely necessary. Squabs of horrified watchers. Men lift- launched
liner "Hokkai bling natione, hitherto glowering or to shoulders, but dared not Dockyard for the Osaka Shosen from the Mitsubishi, fire lert their own countrymen be hit Kaisha. These engines have striking across frontier walls, for-The
beam got their petty problems in the fors, moved on to Sweden, and crowds cylinders 720 mm. in diameter with
passed
close to Helsing-
six face of this new menace. Interna in Stockholm watched it tional unanimity had been achieved
miles away at Vestanfors. Two miles run at 120 r.p.m., the total outpati 40 a piston stroke of 1,250 mm, and pause north at last.
of Oslo, Norway, it made its being 7,200 b.h.p. final halt and vanished. The League produced Gottlieb.
"Hokkail Meanwhile, at Gottlieb's bidding, Maru," which is for the owners') Gottlieb had been the busiest man fleet of 300 airplanes. It was the long b.p. with
the League had assembled at
Orlent-New York service, is 445 ft. a beam of 60 ft. air ins, the deadweight capacity
in the world during the last thirty-first
Britain.
emergency international
The
six hours. Within a short time of police force, composed of the fastest. Red Terror's first appearance he bombing and fighting machines of, being 9,700 tons on a draught of had set a band of scientists in his Germany, France, Belgium and Great 27 ft. 11 ins. laboratorice at Munich working at
Gottlich Incredible speed on
worked an invention!
with tireless energy. So terrible were the rigours which until now had been in the embryo stage.
On the afternoon of the second day of the Terror he tossed his bombshell, theory and solution, be- fore the harassed delegates in the great Conference Hall at Geneva.
"The nations call to us to stop the reign of this Red Terror this strange red light which has its origin somewhere in space, and whose nightly coming has cowed all
of that last mad rush to complete the The cruiser Cumberland, Captain new hoverer that nine of his assist Brian Egerton, arrived in December Gottlieb worked harder and slept less to recommission. Her present ship's ants fainted from sheer exhaustion.at the Nore from the China Station than any of them.
То
for nightfall, the minutes seemed like February 18, 1930. The
rest of the world, waiting company joined at Chatham on weeks. Terror was growing. Sunset land war docked ni Singapore on her Cumber- formation that Gottlich's hoverer was nounced for her return to the Far And with it the alarming in-way home. No date is yet an- not yet finished.
East.
came.
The world shivered, Then-
"The Terror comezo”.
Japan startled the world with its
human and animal life," sald Gottinews. The red light had been sight-leb added speed instructions and final lieb to the Assembly of the League, westward nlang the line of 40 degrees details for the barrage of gun fire. Then jed north of Akita, moving swiftly Ife flung his astounding theory at north latitudel As the evening hours his hoverer sprang up, leaving the air- them-
passed it was heard of again over planes as they took up positions in the "Gentlemen, we are in direct
Peking, and traversing China.
At darkness like moths whirling about touch with another planet! I beproaching Asia Minor, Getuleb and his hoverer on vertical rizing and when the light was sighted ap-some monstrous candle. Gottlieb test lieve the red light to emanate fromnounced that he was ready.
faliing; he knew the risk he a space-machine, an inter-planetary four propellers, glistening in its still an almost untried craft, but no thought Klobe-shaped, with making this ascent up the beam with travel ship, call it what you like, wet cost of red paint, took to the of personal safety crossed his mind. manned by creatures from another air on a trial flight. world!"
Three miles high and near the red "Imperfect in many ways," sald paratus straining to catch the vibra- ilght he flew, his delicate sounding ap- Gottlieb when he landed, "but it was tion of a descending machine.
His hoverer,
a mere
ran in
At/
a specially constructed cabin with last it came, a thin ham, no more than oxygen supplies for use in the rare fied regions of the stratosphere, and it will climb swiftly to heights that us lose no time."
"Fire"
The delegates gasped. "How do I arrive at this con elusion? With the astronomers at Greenwich and from my own obser-
of sound. The raiders ered. vatory I have found that the column no airplane can attain. Come! Let hoverer and glided lower.
Gottiled shut off the engines of his of red light extends Into the stra-
Down, tosphere at a distance of about 15 night the great air-fleet of Earth rose machine to be near ground, he sent the
In the darkness of that fateful squadrona, judging
down ...then when close above the
the miles, but no farther. The light with a mighty boom of sound. Gott radio order for action-
invisible moves and halts, suggesting definite lieb's queer craft in the lead, al control by Intelligent beings. The formation, the expedition sped steadied Hight, he flashed upwards at full planes flying in extended squadron light has travelled on each occasion ly southward to intercept the light.
Sending his hoverer into the great straight and true along a certain line of latitude, barely swerving-The Red Terror has just crossed death cut off the landing party from speed. Far below he saw the barrage. Gottlieb's radio gave him warning burat A roof of flame and leaden for deviating from ita course. What over Turkey and approaches Italy." does that indicate but super space Make for Spain!"
"We can't get to Italy in time.
the space ship, navigation by these unknown pl-by radio to the squadron captains, and seen, so swift was the ascent A grim- signalled Gottlieb of the altitude register could hardly be Up. up, faster, faster. The needle lots? Each time when the beam the airplanes changed their course faced assistant regulated the oxygen has halted men who foollably ven- and flew south-west." tured into the patch of red light al-
supply as they left the atmosphere and Approaching the coast of Spain, the hurtled through the troposphere. Get most immediately vanished! Wit sweeping steadily through the gloom machine inside the beam.
red light was nighted. It came tlieb concentrated on keeping his nesses any it is just as though they behind them, now about 50 miler had been spirited away into the away.
Ten
miles up. The stratosphere. alr! Gentlemen"-Gottlieb's voice
above wind and cloud, and the "Half speed!" ordered Gottlieb, as rang loud, vibrant with certainty they flew over Spain. "Squadrons to and ominions above them. The Alti- light grew stronger, fiercer, blood-red In my opinion that is precisely fight! We must not be seen, Leading Uleb fought madly with the controls. fly clear of the radius of the red tude register smashed at 12 miles. Got- where they have gone into the aquadron fly half mile south, second! In the rarefied air of the stratosphere air!"
squadron fly half mile north. Alter- his machine was When the sudden burst of amaz clear!"
nate squadrons follow, leaving track him.
was running away with ed comment had died down
For one moment he thought all war "It is my carnest and sincere be new formation. Every living thing in checked and held the hoverer steady,
At once the airplanes took up the lost. Then the stabilising propellers lief, continued Gottlieb, "that these Spain was gazing skywards. men and women have been kidnapped deep diapason of the air-fleet could be to the source of the blinding red At slower speed, nearer and nearer The by the raiders for a definite purpose. heard for many miles. Sleep was im- These visitors--they may be from possible. And there, speeding towards
glare Mars,
Venus, Saturn, the Moon, I
Fourteen miles- land came the gigantic cartlieb to his assistant.
"The torpedo tubes!" gasped Got have no proof, whence they
column of Hght- explorers
-the Red be that another Through the airplane which
Terror! may planet is ever-populated and seeks a squadrons had left open it eut like a
urteen and a half milee- 6th Apr. panalon, just as European countries rapier swung by the hand of a mae-
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Crash! The
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Gottlieb thought the end had come! earth!
Got that the space-ship above had detected tlieb, crouching over the control of them. Then as he wrestled with the "The beam of rod light can be am- hoverer, prayed fiercely for it to controls, the hoverer responded, and he ply explained. It is the pathway step. It seemed almost as though the gave a cracked yell of triumph." down which the raiders travel to the without cessailon the light
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The red light had gone aut vides suvinibility. It is a well-know!!
progeeded. But the darkness was dispelled fact that a strong red light shone The Spaniards, like many others, had sky for miles--the space-ship above upon a red object will render that ob- darkened their towns and villages that was on fire. 11th Mar. deduction is that the landing parties
Ject invisible to the human eye. My tention! He glanced at a route map sway from the danger zone of the My they might not attract, the callers' at- Down went Gottlieb's hoverer, and are dressed in red clothes, and that and sent radio message to
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