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There
was
talk
of
a
floating
body
.
One
of
the
men
there
,
a
reservist
he
said
he
was
,
told
my
brother
he
had
seen
the
heliograph
flickering
in
the
west
.
In
Wellington
Street
my
brother
met
a
couple
of
sturdy
roughs
who
had
just
been
rushed
out
of
Fleet
Street
with
still-wet
newspapers
and
staring
placards
.
"
Dreadful
catastrophe
!
"
they
bawled
one
to
the
other
down
Wellington
Street
.
"
Fighting
at
Weybridge
!
Full
description
!
Repulse
of
the
Martians
!
London
in
Danger
!
"
He
had
to
give
threepence
for
a
copy
of
that
paper
.
Then
it
was
,
and
then
only
,
that
he
realised
something
of
the
full
power
and
terror
of
these
monsters
.
He
learned
that
they
were
not
merely
a
handful
of
small
sluggish
creatures
,
but
that
they
were
minds
swaying
vast
mechanical
bodies
;
and
that
they
could
move
swiftly
and
smite
with
such
power
that
even
the
mightiest
guns
could
not
stand
against
them
.
They
were
described
as
"
vast
spiderlike
machines
,
nearly
a
hundred
feet
high
,
capable
of
the
speed
of
an
express
train
,
and
able
to
shoot
out
a
beam
of
intense
heat
.
"
Masked
batteries
,
chiefly
of
field
guns
,
had
been
planted
in
the
country
about
Horsell
Common
,
and
especially
between
the
Woking
district
and
London
.
Five
of
the
machines
had
been
seen
moving
towards
the
Thames
,
and
one
,
by
a
happy
chance
,
had
been
destroyed
.
In
the
other
cases
the
shells
had
missed
,
and
the
batteries
had
been
at
once
annihilated
by
the
Heat-Rays
.
Heavy
losses
of
soldiers
were
mentioned
,
but
the
tone
of
the
dispatch
was
optimistic
.
The
Martians
had
been
repulsed
;
they
were
not
invulnerable
.
They
had
retreated
to
their
triangle
of
cylinders
again
,
in
the
circle
about
Woking
.
Signallers
with
heliographs
were
pushing
forward
upon
them
from
all
sides
.
Guns
were
in
rapid
transit
from
Windsor
,
Portsmouth
,
Aldershot
,
Woolwich
--
even
from
the
north
;
among
others
,
long
wire-guns
of
ninety-five
tons
from
Woolwich
.
Altogether
one
hundred
and
sixteen
were
in
position
or
being
hastily
placed
,
chiefly
covering
London
.
Never
before
in
England
had
there
been
such
a
vast
or
rapid
concentration
of
military
material
.
Any
further
cylinders
that
fell
,
it
was
hoped
,
could
be
destroyed
at
once
by
high
explosives
,
which
were
being
rapidly
manufactured
and
distributed
.
No
doubt
,
ran
the
report
,
the
situation
was
of
the
strangest
and
gravest
description
,
but
the
public
was
exhorted
to
avoid
and
discourage
panic
.
No
doubt
the
Martians
were
strange
and
terrible
in
the
extreme
,
but
at
the
outside
there
could
not
be
more
than
twenty
of
them
against
our
millions
.
The
authorities
had
reason
to
suppose
,
from
the
size
of
the
cylinders
,
that
at
the
outside
there
could
not
be
more
than
five
in
each
cylinder
--
fifteen
altogether
.
And
one
at
least
was
disposed
of
--
perhaps
more
.
The
public
would
be
fairly
warned
of
the
approach
of
danger
,
and
elaborate
measures
were
being
taken
for
the
protection
of
the
people
in
the
threatened
southwestern
suburbs
.
And
so
,
with
reiterated
assurances
of
the
safety
of
London
and
the
ability
of
the
authorities
to
cope
with
the
difficulty
,
this
quasi-proclamation
closed
.
This
was
printed
in
enormous
type
on
paper
so
fresh
that
it
was
still
wet
,
and
there
had
been
no
time
to
add
a
word
of
comment
.
It
was
curious
,
my
brother
said
,
to
see
how
ruthlessly
the
usual
contents
of
the
paper
had
been
hacked
and
taken
out
to
give
this
place
.
All
down
Wellington
Street
people
could
be
seen
fluttering
out
the
pink
sheets
and
reading
,
and
the
Strand
was
suddenly
noisy
with
the
voices
of
an
army
of
hawkers
following
these
pioneers
.
