Day 04 – Friday

With the landing of a 2nd Martian craft the army attempts to surround the Woking pit.

In London medicine continues to be at the forefront of Toni’s mind, fuelled by the talk she attends by Marie and Pierre Curie, but on the way home the preceding evening she had seen a strange light in the sky.  As a result she finds herself thinking of the idea of life on Mars. And because she’s friends with the brother of the renowned HG Wells, curiosity begins to stir.

Recalled to their barracks Morant and Vogan have decided to go AWOL to attend the Curie’s talk on Saturday in Oxford.

Throughout the night witnesses continue to describe a light-ray, like the beam of a warship’s searchlight, sweeping the common around the pit, often followed by what some people describe as a “Heat-Ray”. Those on the common also report hearing the sound of hammering from the pit.

While ‘The Times’ of 4 June accepts Ogilvy’s view that it would be impossible for the Martians to establish themselves on Earth because of the difference in gravity, with Earth’s being 3 times Mars. We now know Ogilvy failed to account for Earth’s higher oxygen level, and the Martian’s machines.

Brown volunteers to stay behind so he can cover for us again. It should be alright if we get back from Oxford before first bugle. We can’t get train tickets to Oxford, so Vogan booked the stagecoach. The return on the overnight coach will get us back in time.

The recently opened Woking Police Station (1887) receives several reports of fires in the pine-woods about the Byfleet Golf Links as the result of the landing of the second Martian craft.