The King in Yellow

By: Chambers, Robert William

Toward the end of the year 1920 the Government of the United States had practicallycompleted the programme, adopted during the last months of President Winthrop'sadministration. The country was apparently tranquil. Everybody knows how the Tariff andLabour questions were settled. The war with Germany, incident on that country's seizure ofthe Samoan Islands, had left no visible scars upon the republic, and the temporaryoccupation of Norfolk by the invading army had been forgotten in the joy over repeatednaval victories, and the subsequent ridiculous plight of General Von Gartenlaube's forces inthe State of New Jersey. The Cuban and Hawaiian investments had paid one hundred percent and the territory of Samoa was well worth its cost as a coaling station. The countrywas in a superb state of defence. Every coast city had been well supplied with landfortifications; the army under the parental eye of the General Staff, organized according tothe Prussian system, had been increased to 300,000 men, with a territorial reserve of amillion; and six magnificent squadrons of cruisers and battle-ships patrolled the sixstations of the navigable seas, leaving a steam reserve amply fitted to control home waters.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B086PNWVR3
• ISBN13: 9798625796484
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"