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attention to them. I leaped back into the compartment of the Han ship and knelt beside my Wilma.
Her padded helmet had absorbed much of the blow, I thought; otherwise, her skull might have been
fractured.
"Oh, my head!" she groaned, coming to as I lifted her gently in my arms and strode out in the open with
her. "We must have won, dearest, did we?"
"We most certainly did," I reassured her. "All but one cashed and that one is drifting down toward the
south. We've captured this one we're in intact. There was only one member of the crew aboard when we
dove in." .
less than an hour afterward the Big Boss ordered the "tfit to tune in ultrophones on three-twenty-three to
Ick up a translated broadcast of the Han intelligence lice in Nu-Yok from the Susquanna station. It was in
the form of a public warning and news item.
"'This is Public Intelligence Office, Nu-Yok, broadcasting warning to navigators of private ships, and
news public interest. The squadron of seven ships which left Nu-Yok this morning to investigate the
recent deruction of the GK-984 in the Wyoming Valley, has been estroyed by a series of mysterious
explosions similair to those which wrecked the GK-984.
'The phones, viewplates, and all other signaling devices of five of the seven ships ceased operating
suddenly at approximately the same moment, about seven-four-nine." (According to the Han system of
reckoning time, even and forty-nine one hundredths after midnight.) After violent disturbances the
location finders went out of operation. Electroactivity registers applied to the territory of the Wyoming
Valley remain dead.
"The Intelligence Office has no indication of the kind if disaster which overtook the squadron except
certain evidences of the explosive phenomena similar to those in he case of the GK-984, which recently
went dead while beaming the valley in a systematic effort to wipe out he works and camps of the
tribesmen. The Office coniders, as obvious, the deduction that the tribesmen have developed a new, and
as yet undetermined, technique of attack on airships, and has recommended to th Heaven-Born that
immediate and unlimited authority to be given the Navigation Intelligence Division to make a investigation
of this technique and develop a defens against it.
"In the meantime it urges that private navigatol avoid this territory in particular, and in general hold a
closely as possible to the official inter-aty routes, whic now are being patrolled by the entire force of
the Military Office, which is beaming the routes generously to width of ten miles. The Military office
reports that it i at present considering no retaliatory raids against thetribesmen. With the Navigation
Intelligence Division, it holds that unless further evidence of the nature of the disaster is developed in
the near future, the public interest will be better served, and at smaller cost of life by a scientific
research than by attempts at retaliation which may bring destruction on all ships engaging therein. So
unless further evidence is developed, or the Heaven-Born orders to the contrary, the Military will hold
to a defensive policy.
"Unofficial intimations from Lo-Tan are to the effect that the Heaven-Council has the matter under
considera tion.
"The Navigation Intelligence Office permits the broad cast of the following condensation of its detailed
observa tions.
"The squadron proceeded to a position above the Wyoming Valley where the wreck of the GK-984
was known to be, from the record of its location finder before it went dead recently. There the bottom
projectoscope relays of all ships registered the wreck of the GK-984 Teleprojectoscope views of the
wreck and the bowl of
"the valley showed no evidence of the presence of tribesmen. Neither ship registers nor base registers
showed any indication of electroactivity except from the squadron itself. On orders from the Base
Squadron Commander, the LD-218, LK-745 and LG25 scouted southward at 8,000 feet. The GK-43,
GK-981 and GK-220 stood above at 2,500 feet, and the GK-18 landed to permit personal inspection
of the wreck by the science committee. The party debarked, leaving one man on board in the control
cabin. He set all projectoscopes at universal focus except RB43," (this meant the third projectoscope