Operator 5 #9: Legions of Starvation

Speeding through the silent blackness of the night, a long freight-train was laden with a cargo more precious than fine gold-wheat! Then suddenly, the hirelings of Apocryphos unleashed red destruction, and the great machine lay wrecked, its cars of priceless grain afire... Another blow in the ruthless campaign that was driving a proud people, whimpering, to slavery-overwhelmed by the cruel pangs of hunger! The four horsemen of the Apocalypse, thundered sharp-hoofed over the sterile reaches ...