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"Overhead the flock was growing.” THE STORY SO FAR: Intelllgenes Officer Brnnlnf Kisrned In Mexico City that 200.000 foreign troops under Van Haaaek were poiaed aloni the Rio Grande tor an Invaalon of Ute United Staten. He aucceeded In Kalnins the confidence of Fincke and Bravot, two enemy officer*, before returning to * CHAPTER VIII * * INSTALLMENT EIGHT Washington. FlagwIU, acting chief of Military Intolllgence, told him that forces wera also reported massing In the Medi terranean and the Far East. Benning continued to pose as an enemy agent when Fincke later appeared In the cap ital. Without warning, four southern cit ies were attacked from the air. Wash- «*•••• put an officer of lesser mettle in a dizzy whirl. Inventory disclosed that the Sec ond Division had escaped the sud den storm with loss of forty-odd car go trucks, seventeen men, five offi cers, and two pieces of artillery. Having given the Second its orders to assemble and march on Kirk. I Brill set about his final tactical I plans. From time to time Brill and his staff were interrupted by reports of air disasters over New Orleans, Galveston, and Houston. Total losses there aggregated twelve hundred. General Bril] directed his senior aide to get General Hague at Wash ington on the long-distance. The hour was nearing three o'clock when the Chief of Staff of the Army reported ready to talk. "My best judgment is to pull out of here," Brill said, after he had re ported latest developments in Tex as. "We're too thin to make a fight for San Antonio, but we can do some good delaying back of the Colorado and Brazos while you get troops enough into the Fort Worth country to make a stand.” The Hague voice responded with quiet firmness, “You'll proceed at once against the enemy, Brill, and make a stand in front of San An tonio with your Second Division.” Brill groaned. "But Hague, are you sure you understand the whole situation down here? It's simply in viting a lot of nasty losses to no purpose. I haven't force enough to—” “Let's not debate the matter,” General Hague interrupted stoutly. "Is that clear, Brill?" "Perfectly, sir.” There was nei ther remonstrance nor equivocation in the area commander's voice now. In a calm voice Brill repeated the Hague decision to his staff. He of fered no comment. Without speak ing, the staff went to work on its new plan. Circling to the south. Brill found the due-south road to Kirk, which was under military traffic control, and sped to the vHlage, where he found Genera) Mole, division com mander. Mole was a thin bit of military hickory now nearing retire ment age. General Mole received his superi or's battle orders with a monosylla ble of acquiescence, as if to hoard his jaded energies, and promptly set to work with his staff. The division staff was familiar with the country and made prompt plans for organi zation of a defensive position. Or ders were ready within half an hour, and since there was no enemy im mediately in prospect, the regiments proceeded to their positions in their cargo trucks. General Bril) stood In the growing dawn gravely watching the Second pass out to its battle lines. A force of 10.837 enlisted men and two war rant officers, led by 546 officers. Captain Franklin Boll, In com mand of two outpost companies of the 11th United States Infantry in the vicinity of Laredo, had patrols along the Rio Grande watching for the first Van Hassek wave. Word had flashed through of the bombing of San Antonio and Boll knew that the land invasion must be shaping itself already for a vital blow at Texas when daylight came. Colonel Denn had spent a fretful night, well knowing the tight pinch in which he might And his regiment at dawn. His regiment was at peace strength, rifle companies running as low as seventy, total strength 1,132 officers and men. No artillery sup port had been sent him from Fort Sam Houston, his only supporting weapons were the 37-millimeter and small mortars of his weapons com panies. His ammunition supply was less than one day of Are. Such a thing as interdicting sus pected points of enemy river cross ing was out of the question. He had given Boll, in outpost, eight machine guns and some light mortars. Lightning flashed in the distance. A shrill screech came plowing through the night. High explosives crashed in to turn night into bed lam. Fragments found a victim who fell witii a howl of pain. The crew of a machine gun was dropped. Men acattered, lay flat on their faces, helpless against this hurricane of destruction that howled down upon them across the Rio Grande. All existence was now engulfed by ti>e seething uproar of artillery Boll saw that the regiment was claiming the fullest force of Van Hassek's rage. Half an hour and Boll's casualties were twenty. Patrols had been sight ed, an increasing number of skulk ers were reported closing in. Boll saw that his position was becoming untenable. He started his men slowly to the rear, with two squads covering his withdrawal. The enemy, suspicious of a possible trap in the night, fol lowed cautiously. From this Boll guessed that only the first scatter ing bridgehead troops were in ac tion. But, having guessed that the Americans were without benefit of artillery, the Van Hassek officers now would use the main bridge and move across the Rio Grande in force. Boll had covered less than two hundred yards when a runner ar rived from Colonel Denn. "The colonel says get back as fast as you can!" the messenger pant ed. "Regiment Is pulling out right away for the Nueces." Half an hour later, Boll panted into the regimental position. Cap tain March, assistant plans and training officer, came hurrying up from a vacated regimental position "Regiment pulled out twenty min utes ago," March reported to Boll "You're to follow at once as rear As Captain Boll sprang into his guard Trucks are ready behind this station wagon with his lieutenants, hill. Colonel Denn left you some and sped to the head of his truck baldollers of extra ammunition, but column to set the pace, his eye we ought to get back of the Nueces caught the flash of light that turned before we light. Second Division is the waning night into day some taking position somewhere back miles ahead of him. there. Hurry your men along. Cap "Step on her!” he barked at his tain!" driver. "They'll spot us tn a min By jamming his men seventeen to , ute—and we're still in artillery the truck. Boll got his command on range.” wheels. Two trucks went to the Boll sat with hands gripping his wounded, one to his three remain ing machine guns He studied the knees while he observed the bursts luminous dial of his watch, an anx Luckily they were striking to the ious scowl on his face as his convoy right and doing no damage. But made ready to pull out. The hour shortly the firing ceased, the air ob server roared by again with a flare, was a little past three o'clock. and rushed off to radio correction to A plane shot overhead, traveling the distant gunners. high and fast Its shrilling motors He saw that there was the first sent a chill down the captam's spine touch of gray in the air, dawn only "It'U be just too bad for us if we're not at the Nueces by day a matter of minutes. It would be a miracle If he reached the Nueces light’’ he muttered to Captain March. "And with light dua in half with half of his men and trucks. As the night thinned out. he caught an hour. I'm afraid we just can t make itl" Major General Brill, area com mander, kept bis head through tan <^<so/Ae s /eifn/Zissew/ gled hours whoso crises might have NEXT WEEK * Beginner Didn't ant Possibility to Be U asted Inclon was heavily bombed and tha President killed In the assault. National forces were ordered mobilized, but the army was ill prepared to repulse the well trained and equipped enemy col umns which were about to advance aiainst them. Now continue with the story. ITO BE COXTIM EDI The rain rains mostly upon the just. The unjust keep borrowing his umbrella. In the Name of Safety "What’s making you so angry?” "Nothing much. I cut myself with a safety razor, burned my self with a safety match, and nearly got run over while reading a safety-first notice.” Quite Obvious 'Isn't that a new frock you’ve on?1 ^ 'Yes; I got it for a ridiculoui figure. 'Oh, I can tee that!” Grounds for Suspicions “I’ve searched high and low for the furniture cream recipe your mother gave me—” "Here!” said her husband, put ting down his spoon, "where did you get the recipe for this soup?” INDIGESTION may affect the Heart * « the distant hum of this new men ace. Boll broke out the glass win dows of his station wagon with the butt of his automatic. He thrust his head out and peered into the sky. Planes were circling overhead like so many mad wasps waiting the instant of better visibility. There was not long to wait. As night shed its last veil, the war falcons swoopea one at a time to pluck the little caravan to bits with their talons of steel. Men in the trucks opened fire with their rifles. But the attacking planes flew with the speed of the wind. They dashed low, pumping bullets from hot machine guns, releasing their fragmentation bombs, and in a twin kling were gone. Then back they came, one at a time at irregular intervals, to plaster the road with their fury. Overhead the flock was growing. Fourteen planes, he estimated. Two squadrons, force enough to tear him to pieces bit by bit unless miracles of good fortune and bad marksman ship attended him along the red course to the Nueces. Inevitably, dropping down time after time with out other hindrance than the ran dom fire of his riflemen, the air men would take their relentless toll. A truck went out, the third one back from Boll. It cracked up across the road under impact of a bomb. The driver slumped dead in his seat. Men piled out and be gan scattering out of the storm. Boll stopped his car, ran back to straight en out the snarl. Three planes zoomed down his col umn, knifing the road. He saw two of his men fall. He gave instruc tions to a sergeanb'and two corpo rals. They were to pass word down the column. Hereafter stricken trucks were to be shoved to the sjde of the road, survivors and wounded distributed to other trucks as they passed along. All were to act promptly on their own initiative Boll ran back to his station wagon, leaped in. The car was vibrating with the gentle motion of idling mo tors. A shout went up from the men in Boll's truck. A plane crashed out of the sky and whanged into the gray earth. It burst instantly into flames. Boll's riflemen had claimed another bird in this unequal clash. But the next instant brought red retaliation. Another truck nosed off the road in a crush of wounded men and dead. Boll saw the sur vivors act promptly to extricate themselves, gather up the maimed and flag down succeeding vehicles. The village of Encinal flashed by. Boll shook his head and swore bit terly. Encinal told him that he had little more than started on his long, desperate run. Next would come Artesia Wells, which would be little more than halfway to the Nueces. He looked at his watch and saw the hour was short of six o'clock. He groaned and passed a tormented hand across his face. Misgivings struck him of making it through. His mind made a nasty calculation. At their rate ot kill, those vultures would tear his column to pieces Be fore he could run under the dubious cover ahead. Decision snapped in his mind as he saw a new flight swarming into the fight. The birdmen were travel ing high, but heading straight into the conflict. More than twenty more planes he guessed in the daze of tragic dis covery. His eye raced over the ter rain. There were mesquite, juniper thickets, some rugged dwarf pine. Scattered, hia men would have refuge until Van Hassek's column* wheeled up. He roared an order to stop the truck and leaped to the ground The unwounded men with him he in structed to keep up their rifle fire. Standing beside the road he signaled a halt, motioned the command to de truck Objecting Mother—Baby’s crying because he's getting his first teeth. 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