New Switzerland News 1919

[Walter]

@ Walter, there is no wire from new Zion not controlled by France, Italia or DKB.

I just said something that might make sense. As for the cable, the cable map we have is pretty old... but I can't remember any significant NS or NZ cable laying.

Wireless from New Zion to someplace that does have telegraph lines... not that hard.

It is when there's nothing friendly in the 3500nm radius. :)

[ctwaterman]

 :-X  *innocent angelic expression*

It is when there's nothing friendly in the 3500nm radius.

[Walter]

Aha! That shows that they actually hacked into the Italian system. :D

[damocles]

There are ways and means.  ;)

[Desertfox]

BATTLE PHOTOGRAPHS!


August 2nd?


The NSN has unveiled photographs of the furious battle!


Enemy battleline, two Superb class French battleships can be seen dead center.


Italian heavy cruiser sinking.


Independence opening fire.

[ctwaterman]

OOC:  Wow... Damn Good Work DF.... :o

IC:  I would ask how the Photographs got out of New Zion......

[Walter]

E-mailed them? ;D

[ctwaterman]

Begins rolling up a news paper.....   

No Laughing I have lots of little toys soldiers and ships to move around.....

Charles

[Walter]

Wanna play rough, eh? Well, I could always ask the mod to hurl a big space rock onto the Italian forces and remove lots of little toys soldiers and ships so you no longer need to worry about them and I think it'll make Rocky happy as well, no longer having to deal with part of the combattants involved in the war. *runs away* :D

[TexanCowboy]

There are simpler *KABOOM* Romanian methods to dealing with such problems.... ;D

*runs away and hides behind 16'' steel armour* :D

[ctwaterman]

*smiles*  Walks up to the armor with a welding torch....  welds the doors and ventilation systems shut and walks away whisteling....

[Desertfox]

August 9th, 1919

By Lord Adalai Tennyson

In honor of those brave men and sailors that attacked the Italo/French battleline at the Battle of Tadjoura Strait

Charge of the Light Brigade

Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the strait of Death
Sailed the six squadrons.
"Forward the Light Brigade!
Charge for the line!" he said.
Into the strait of Death
Sailed the six squadrons.

Forward, the Light Brigade!"
Was there a man dismay'd?
Not tho' the sailors knew
Some one had blunder'd.
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
Into the strait of Death
Sailed the six squadrons.

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
Boldly they sailed and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of hell
Sailed the six squadrons.

Flash'd all their torpedoes bare,
Flash'd as they turn'd in air
Torpedoing the cruisers there,
Charging a battleline, while
All the world wonder'd.
Plunged in the gunnery-smoke
Right thro' the line they broke;
Italian and French
Reel'd from the torpedo-blow
Shatter'd and sunder'd.
Then they sailed back, but not,
Not the six squadrons.

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
While ship and hero fell,
They that had fought so well
Came thro' the jaws of Death,
Back from the mouth of hell,
All that was left of them,
Left of six squadrons.

When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wonder'd.
Honor the charge they made!
Honor the Light Brigade,
Noble six squadrons!

[Desertfox]

October 1st - onward


New Switzerland battles Allied fleet again!

Once was not enough for the forces of evil. The evil allies could not rest without having another go at the Swiss Fleet. And they paid for their indiscretions. Once again they ambushed the Swiss, who where minding their own business, heading home after delivering much needed supplies to the besieged Zionites. And once again they fled in defeat. Two battleships and two heavy cruisers fell before the Swiss onslaught. With not so much as a scratch befalling the Swiss warships. Let this be a lesson for those who dare challenge New Switzerland on the high seas. For your ships will too sleep with the fishes.



Underhand Dutch Attack!

This would not be all, for the Dutch decided to take a crack at the Swiss, with predictable results. Swiss and Omani forces in the process of turning the island of Masirah over to the Omani government, where attacked without warning and without cause attacked by Dutch warships and troops. A scratch force of Omani and Swiss troops numbering less than a hundred held of an entire Dutch Marines Division for two days, allowing the Swiss and Omani forces on the island to leave with not a single casualty. Meanwhile the Dutch fleet roamed the coast, shelling only civilian targets, indiscriminately killing hundreds of innocent civilians, and leaving entire villages in flames. These deeds would not go unpunished as the massive Dutch battleship De Ruyters was heavily damaged. Unfortunately, the Swiss fleet could not intervene in this massacre as they where busy fending of the attack by the allies, in what was obviously a well planned operation by the Allies to murder even more innocent people.

[Desertfox]

October 6th

News of the proposed peace terms offered to New Zion have cause considerable consternation among government officials in New Switzerland. The President denounced said terms in a speech later that day, saying that no civilized nation could ever commit such an affront to civilization, and those who wrote said terms should be burned at the stake as war criminals.   

[Desertfox]

October 13th

The Swiss Confederation declares its neutrality in this war of Chinese reunification, however attacks against Swiss shipping will meet with swift retaliation.

OOC Am I still technically at war with the MK?