{"id":913,"date":"2023-02-13T02:13:25","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T02:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/WotW\/?page_id=913"},"modified":"2023-02-13T02:13:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T02:13:36","slug":"day-19-saturday","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/WotW\/day-19-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 19 – Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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19-Jun 00:01 – Saturday<\/div>

Wells finally emerges from the house he had been confined for 11 days, to the sound of \u2014 silence.<\/p>\n

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In London, Toni\u2019s diary continues to demonstrate \u00a0the determination and organisational skills of the suffragists. And once again, we see Elizabeth Cadbury\u2019s exemplary leadership qualities demonstrated.<\/p>\n

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Elsewhere in the greatest city on Earth, Morant records that one of the men who had taken the heat-ray off him had turned up with the news that Pierre Curie had been trying to get the heat ray to work at a lab in Oxford when it exploded, killing him instantly.<\/p>\n

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Outside the city, Commander Carver and Maxim finish their plans for a combined attack against the Martians in the Woking Pit, an attack that will be undertaken from both the air, and ground.<\/p>\n

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And we consider the report on an examination of the Martian\u2019s machines recovered by Lieutenant Dullanty, undertaken at Roche Wood under the direction of Sir J Dullanty (the Lieutenant\u2019s father). And discuss an explanation for why the Martian\u2019s only launched a restricted number of capsules.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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19-Jun 07:00 @toniwantstovote<\/div>

#oldies are caring for #thechild<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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19-Jun 07:05 @toniwantstovote<\/div>

@NUWSS central meeting today. They are coming here, as we have #thehighestground #blacksmoke still happening.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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19-Jun 07:10 @toniwantstovote<\/div>

@sirjohntheengineer and the oldies have our first #gasmasks #willtheywork #whowilltrythem #shouldIvolunteer #fear<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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19-Jun 09:30 @BreakerMorant #PC-Deceased<\/div>

One of the men from the group who took the heat-ray off us found us. He said that Pierre Curie had been trying to get the heat ray to work at a lab in Oxford when it exploded, killing him instantly.<\/p>\n

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Marie was very distressed.<\/p>\n

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19-Jun 09:45 @BreakerMorant #MC-Distressed<\/div>

Marie requested an escort to Oxford but I said no. It is simply too dangerous. I have asked Mother to keep an eye on her.<\/p>\n

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19-Jun 10:00 @HGWells #WellsEmerges<\/div>

Alone in the scullery, his mouth and throat parched, Wells sits in the darkness, in a state of despondent wretchedness. Outside he hears only silence from the pit, but feels too weak to investigate.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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19-Jun 11:00 @LtCarver<\/div>
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From the personal log of Lt Roger Carver, Royal Marines, HMS Thunder Child<\/em>, 19 June 1897, 11:00 GMT:<\/p>\n

I stood at table with a map of Woking, and the Martian position in the Horsell Common sandpit.\u00a0 Maxim tapped the map with a red grease pencil, drawing a circle around the enemy position. \u201cThis is about where I began to feel that odd sensation, I told you about.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou\u2019re certain that the tower the Martians built is the cause of it? Lieutenant Mann asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am,\u201d said Maxim.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe may not agree on everything,\u201d I said, \u201cbut we agree that tower must be destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m more concerned about the Black Smoke,\u201d said Sergeant-Major Howard.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI may have an answer for that,\u201d said Maxim, producing a crude fabric hood with eyeholes made from glass. \u201cBefore wireless transmission from Birmingham was cut off due to the tower\u2019s interference, the government broadcast specifications for these masks. I understand your artillery were provided with a set.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mann picked up the mask.\u00a0 He shook his head. \u201cThis<\/em> will protect us?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve made improvements, including a charcoal filter to increase its effectiveness,\u201d Maxim assured us.<\/p>\n

I remembered how the people of Shearness and Tilbury died wholesale from the smoke. \u201cDo we have enough for us all?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Maxim nodded. \u201cPersephone and some of your men spent a few hours this morning making them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMake sure everyone is issued with one,\u201d I turned to Howard.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll need something for the horses,\u201d said Lieutenant Mann.<\/p>\n

\u201cPersephone\u2019s already thought of that,\u201d Maxim said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s an adaption of the basic mask,\u201d Persephone said. \u201cIt fits quite snugly There\u2019ll be enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sergeant-Major, how are the men?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe now have two Maxim guns with ammunition. The 12-pounder has 20 rounds of high explosive.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cBe sure to site your artillery piece here,\u201d said Maxim, pointing to where the map indicated a wooded area that overlooked the Martians. \u201cIt will be in range there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe men are rested and ready to go,\u201d said Howard. \u201cIt\u2019s this business about the flying machine I\u2019m not sure of.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cSergeant-Major,\u201d said Maxim, \u201cplease be assured my machine will fly. \u201c<\/p>\n

\u201cThen tomorrow we attack,\u201d I said. \u201cAction will commence at 0800 with a single green flare.\u201d<\/p>\n

I looked over at Farmer asleep on the cot. He stirred gently. I doubt he heard us at all.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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19-Jun 12:01 @LtJRDullanty<\/div>

TO: LT. JAMES ROBERT DULLANTY NO 4 COMPANY (SPECIAL OPERATIONS) COLDSTREAM GUARDS STOP<\/p>\n

JAMES PLEASE THANK GEN SIR STEPHENSON FOR THE BODY OF THE MARTIAN AND THE REMAINS OF THE MACHINES YOU RECOVERED STOP ATTACHED IS A COPY OF OUR INITIAL FINDINGS.<\/p>\n

YOUR FATHER<\/p>\n

J DULLANTY ROTCH WOOD<\/p>\n

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\u201cTHE MARTIANS APPARENTLY EITHER DO NOT KNOW OF, OR ABSTAIN FROM, THE WHEEL BUT IN THEIR APPARATUS SINGULARLY LITTLE USE IS MADE OF THE FIXED PIVOT OR RELATIVELY FIXED PIVOT WITH CIRCULAR MOTIONS THEREABOUT CONFINED TO ONE PLANE\u2026<\/p>\n

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\u201cALMOST ALL JOINTS OF THE MACHINERY PRESENT A COMPLICATED SYSTEM OF SLIDING PARTS MOVING OVER SMALL BUT BEAUTIFULLY CURVED FRICTION BEARINGS STOP REMARKABLY THE LONG LEVERAGES OF THEIR MACHINES ARE IN MOST CASES ACTUATED BY A SORT OF SHAM MUSCULATURE OF DISKS IN AN ELASTIC SHEATH\u2026<\/p>\n

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\u201cTHESE DISKS BECOME POLARIZED AND ARE DRAWN CLOSELY AND POWERFULLY TOGETHER WHEN TRAVERSED BY A CURRENT OF ELECTRICITY STOP IN THIS WAY THE CURIOUS PARALLELISM TO ANIMAL MOTIONS, WHICH WAS SO STRIKING AND DISTURBING TO THE HUMAN BEHOLDER, WAS ATTAINED\u2026<\/p>\n

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\u201cSUCH QUASI-MUSCLES ABOUNDED IN THE HANDLING-MACHINE YOU OBTAINED AND WHICH YOU COMMENT APPEAR INFINITELY MORE ALIVE THAN THE ACTUAL MARTIANS LYING BEYOND IT IN THE SUNSET LIGHT STOP PANTING AND MOVING FEEBLY AFTER THEIR VAST JOURNEY ACROSS SPACE\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

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Note: <\/strong>This telegram was never delivered due to Lt. Dullanty\u2019s, due to his death during the attack on the airfield at Primrose Hill. The telegram was personally returned to his father after the war by Gen Sir Stephenson.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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19-Jun 14:07 @toniwantstovote<\/div>

@lizcadbury will trial #gasmask I don\u2019t know how to feel about this. #inspiring #whyher #whynotme<\/p>\n

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@millifawcett says we must not risk anyone with medical training.<\/p>\n

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But we need @lizcadbury #shehasbeenmyrock<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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19-Jun 16:00 @toniwantstovote<\/div>

Now we need to find a #Martian and #blacksmoke #arewenuts?<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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19-Jun 21:46 @toniwantstovote<\/div>

@lizcadbury surived! #gasmaskworks #Iamsorelieved #sheismyrock<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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19-Jun 22:02 @LtCarver<\/div>

From the personal log of Lt Roger Carver, Royal Marines, HMS Thunder Child<\/em>, 19 June 1897, 22:02 GMT:<\/p>\n

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It was a clear moonless night. The stars were brilliant, but cool and unsympathetic. I thought about Mars, now below the western horizon. \u201cThey\u2019ve not sent any more cylinders,\u201d I said. \u201cI keep wondering why.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cPerhaps there\u2019s a problem with their launcher,\u201d said Persephone.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou\u2019re very perceptive,\u201d I said taking her hand. \u201cYou take after your grandfather.\u201d<\/p>\n

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She smiled. \u201cI\u2019m a keen observer, like him.\u201d Her hand tightened around mine.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIndeed. If it\u2019s trouble with whatever the Martians use to hurl their cylinders at us, it\u2019s a stroke of luck.\u201d<\/p>\n

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I looked at Persephone.\u00a0 We smiled at each other. I found myself taking a definite liking towards the young suffragette. If\u2026 If\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cHelp!\u201d We turned around to see Persephone\u2019s father stumbling out of the house towards us. He was bleeding from his face. \u201cMr. Farmer attacked me!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Maxim fell into his daughter\u2019s arms. \u201c\u2026when I came to, he was gone\u2026 so was my revolver.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou\u2019ve a nasty wound.\u201d I got him to his feet as his daughter cleaned away the blood from his face.<\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2026what\u2019s more,\u201d said Maxim, \u201cthe explosives I was experimenting with in my shop are gone.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou don\u2019t think Mr. Farmer\u2019s gone after the Martians on his own?\u201d asked Persephone.<\/p>\n

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\u201cUndoubtedly,\u201d I said as we walked Maxim back to the house. \u201cWe can\u2019t go after him, or we\u2019ll risk giving ourselves away. The poor mad fool must\u2019ve overheard us. I don\u2019t know what he has planned.\u201d<\/p>\n

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We got to the house and lay Maxim on the cot in his workshop. Maxim reached out to Persephone. \u201cWith my injuries, I can\u2019t take the flying machine up tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI can pilot,\u201d she said. \u201cBut I will need someone to drop the explosives.\u201d She looked at me. \u201cRoger, can you help?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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19-Jun 22:03 #MartianLaunchersDestroyed<\/div>

Persephone’s comment that the Martian’s failure to send more capsules was “perhaps a problem with their launcher,\u201d was more accurate than she had guessed at the time.<\/p>\n

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Recent investigations for this production have confirmed that the Martian launcher was in fact destroyed by a by a powerful beam of electromagnetic energy projected by Mr. Nikola Tesla from his laboratory in Colorado Springs, U.S.A.\u00a0 The search for the Martian launcher, begun at the invasion\u2019s onset, was a carried out by observatories around the world linked by telegraph.<\/p>\n

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Once again, as Carter confirmed this in a note added to his journal in 1898, it is unclear why this was neglected by Wells in his own history.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t

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