about one in the morning
`` WE have surrendered ! '' came later ; `` in us America is defeated . '' Then they began to burn and tingle . The newspapers , which were issued about one in the morning contained no particulars of the terms upon which New York had yielded -- nor did they give any intimation of the quality of the brief conflict that had preceded the capitulation . The later issues remedied these deficiencies . There came the explicit statement of the agreement to victual the German airships , to supply the complement of explosives to replace those employed in the fight and in the destruction of the North Atlantic fleet , to pay the enormous ransom of forty million dollars , and to surrender the flotilla in the East River . There came , too , longer and longer descriptions of the smashing up of the City Hall and the Navy Yard , and people began to realise faintly what those brief minutes of uproar had meant .