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Page Six Illinois Valley News, Thursday, March 27, 1941 Man’s Power C>BY GENERAL-* either or both. Thus, by repeat ing this one pattern time and again, you can outfit your small daughter for spring and summer fun. This little outfit looks adorable in red-checked gingham, flowered percale, plain or striped seersuck er and buttercup yellow cham bray, outlined with bright ricrac braid to match or contrast. INSTALLMENT ELEVEN THE STORY SO FAR: Intelligence Officer Benning's warning that zoo,ooo foreign troops were poised in Mexico for an attack on tbe United States caused grave concern In army headquarters, but the people branded the statement as "war mongering.” Without warning, four large southern cities were attacked # # CHAPTER XI—Continued » from Uw air; Washincion was bombed and tbe President killed. National form were ordered mobilized, but they were 111 prepared for Immediate action. Gen eral Brill, area commander of the army In Texas, reported to General Hague, chief ot staff at Washington, that he was being attacked by greatly superior * • # • • • its regimental reserve line. A sec- ond attack launched against that line, if it succeeded, meant inevita ble defeat. Into the melee came rushing American reserves, a co-ordinated counter-attack by the 3d Battalion of the 23d and the 2d Battalion of the 9th. They hit with a vigor that halt ed the menacing enemy masses. Their semi-automatics, pouring death as fast as fingers could work triggers, gave to the attacking American battalions the infantry weight of twice their numbers. Van Hassek's men fell back, dug themselves into fox holes, waited. A lull came into the firing. The artil lery roared on, machine guns, light cannon chattered and boomed. Now the volcanic eruption ot battle lost something of its volume. The cries of the stricken could be heard, plain tive wails of "First aid!" Van Hassek had lost the first round. He had committed the brash folly of underestimating his enemy. In his haste to blast his way through to San Antonio his conceit had mis led him to disregard sound tactical principles. No matter if the enemy In the swift jumble of action Boyn ton caught the fall of wounded men, heard the cries of pain, and the shrill of commanders' whistles, the batk of subalterns above the bellow ing artillery. Rifle flashes stabbed the graying dawn as the enemy sprawled to the ground and fired back. Boynton hugged the earth only long enough to satisfy himself that it was an attack wave, not a mere patrol, he had encountered; then he fell back, his men firing in termittently as they ran, to the shel ter of fox holes in the outpost. The outpost line, lightly held, poured lead from its semi-automat ics and machine guns. When it found itself confronted by superior forces, its defenders promptly retreated to the main line of resistance which ran a ragged, irregular line of trenches and centers of resistance over a front of ten thousand yards. Van Hassek's infantry, in waves of men that reached across the whole front, struck the main line of resistance just as visibility exposed the attack. Colonel Hall of the Oth, observing the attack from a vantage-point, ex pected nothing more than that. Lat er, when Van Hassek's scheme of maneuver had cut a critical hole into the division's vitals, the whole force of the frontal attack would come rushing in to mop up with firepower and bayonets. The 9th's Garand rifles, light ma chine guns, 37-millimeter cannon, and small mortars poured all their hot fury into the surging assault. One enemy wave after another melt ed into dead and wounded, but only to be replaced by living waves that poured relentlessly on. Half an hour of furious fighting passed before Colonel Hail accepted the evidence of his own eyes. “My God, the fools are going to penetrate our center!" he roared. Astride the Laredo-San Antonio highway, Van Hassek's infantry drove ahead while successive waves of men melted across open terrain where there was little benefit of cov er. Desperately the enemy com manders fed in reserves from their superior hordes of men out of which they could pay the red costs of their error in underestimating an enemy who hud not been expected to offer serious resistance here. The enemy tanks rolling In. What Van Hassek's infantry lost to their slower bolt-action rifles they had done the same thing by making made up by auxiliary arms, light a stand, the next move now was up machine guns, mortars of many cal to Van Hassek. ibers, light and heavy tanks, superi At the division command post. ority of artillery. Shrapnel, mor General Mole had slept through the tars. and musketry now beat down morning preparation Are Only by on the American centers of resist vigorously shaking him had his aide ance with the red convolutions of been able to rouse him out of his some Satanic scourge escaped from sleep. Dosing himself with strong hell. Van Hassek's men burst ahead coffee. Mole coolly watched the de until Boynton could see the distend velopment of attack. The Van Has ed eyes and gaping, grimacing ter sek strategy had a right to suppose ror of their faces, as they bared that the Second would hold lightly themselves to a death against which and run off to successive delaying they did not dare turn their backs. positions. The enemy poured on into Boyn Anxiously, Mole and his staff ton's strong-point. Boynton became scanned information as it came in aware that the survivors of his men over the field wires and from obser were breaking, stubbornly fighting vation planes. Van Hassek's tortu with bayonets, grenades, and mus ous columns still were moving up ketry as they fell back. Now he saw from Laredo. But no fresh move enemy tanks rolling in on his men. ment of reserves was located in tanks whose steel armor deflected the immediate American front Both the regiment's ancient 37-millime- the Brownsville and Eagle Pass col ler guns that were being used until umns were several hours' travel tile new anti-tank guns could be re from striking range of either flank. duced from paper models to actual Casualty reports came in. roughly weapon*. Boynton turned to rally computed, by noon. One hundred his men. giving to his voice the full and seven officers, most lieutenants. strength of his lungs Nineteen hundred men. A fifth ot his "Up and at ’em!” he cried. "To command gone, many of them offi hell with the swine!” cers and men with whom he had His voice rose above the storm. served through long years of peace. A second time he raised his voice, But discipline held up. and a stern, then he staggered drunkenly, spun stubborn fighting spirit pervaded the half around, and fell as conscious ranks. That word came from the ness snapped from his brain and commanders of infantry who had his life ’miffed out. taken the brunt of the losses, it Having committed themselves to came from the artillery regiments this folly of frontal attack, the Van which were still being pounded by Hassek commanders fed in reserve long range artillery. after reserve regardless of cost in Ag ainst odds of men and weap their determination to break through ons there remained the valor of a with as little delay as possible. Once manpower that could be conquered they succeeded in driving a wedge only in death, or lawful order of deep enough into the American cen retreat. ter. they knew that the whole Ameri can sector would roll up tn a chaos < H \I’l l R XII of defeated regiments. lint to accomplish this. Van Has- As succeeding battle reports from aek's infantry must drive through the Texas front poured uito Wash succeeding lines. Capturing one. ington over the radio, Captain Ben they faced another equally resist ning was assailed by growing rest ant. What the Americans lacked in lessness at his own inaction in the auxiliary weapons they made up by (ace of momentous events. Through their unshakable fighting spirit, a out the day he had lolled about the discipline hard as steel that put rnen cafes along Connecticut Avenue through the terrors of battle and looking for the Van Hassek staff turned a deaf ear to Impulses of spies, Fincke and Boggio, Evening flight and surrender. Even succeed found him holding the bag ing waves of tanks failed to terrorise That red welter of the 11th In them or drive them out of position fantry's retreat from Laredo had All the advantages of auxiliary been reported in meager but graphic weapons failed to avail. detail along with the heroic stand of One surging mass of enemy in the Sth and 12th Cavalry Regiments. fantry engulfed the right of the 23d. Captain Boll’s achievement in pi loting his men through the storm of and left of the 9th Infantry, late in Van Hassek's air attacks had stirred the forenoon. Now th« storm rose the country. to new heights of desperation as Benning and Boll had been class Van Hassek's infantry sought to mates at the Military Academy, had break on through. gone to the 11th Infantry together as Five hundred yards the invsder progressed, swamping one strong- point after another. The Second's main line was threatened by a wedge that would force it back to NEXT WEEK forces, General Hague ordered him to resist the enemy's advance at all costs. Brill hastily prepared plans with the help of General Mole, division com mander. Suddenly the American outpost was attacked by a strong force cross ing the Rio Grande. Now continue with the story. * subalterns. Benning had served with * * It is impossible to imagine the height to which may be carried in a thousand years, the power ot man over matter . . . O that moral science were in a fair way of improvement, that men would cease to be wolves to one another, and that human knowledge would at length learn what they now improperly call humanity!—Ben jamin Franklin. Delicious for healthy appetites- the 11th for nearly a year until he energy for workers... saves time • • • went to the air corps, from which # and trouble for cooks— Pattern No. 1313-B is designed for sizes service he had been snatched for I economica/. Order, to- 2. 3. 4. 5 and 6 years. Size 3 requires military intelligence duty. Breath 2’« yards of 35-inch material without nap | day, from your grocer. lessly he followed every scrap of and 8 yards ot ricrac. Send order to: available information on the 11th. Benning was picking at his dinner SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. at the Mayflower when there came a 149 New Montgomery Ave. S in Franiisio Calif. final flash on the Boll incident. Enclose 15 cents in coins for "You heard this afternoon of the Pattern No...................... Size............. gallant young officer. Captain Boll of our. infantry,” the broadcaster an Name ................. . ...................... . ........ nounced. "You recall that, although Address ................................................. wounded in the cheek, he ignored his own wound and saw his men through to the Second Division south Inscribe of San Antonio.” The announcer paused, his voice Live for something. Do good, shook with feeling as he read a brief and leave behind you a monu dispatch from San Antonio that ment of virtue that the storm of brought the incident of Boll to tragic time can never destroy. Write consummation; your name, in kindness, love and "Captain Henry Boll, 11th United mercy, on the hearts of thousands States Infantry, died early this eve Feast-for-the- Least' you come in contact with year by ning of wounds received in action. year; you will never be forgotten. Captain Boll collapsed a few min No, your name, your deeds, will utes after reaching the hospital and Need of Patience be as legible on the hearts you died this evening without having re How poor are they that have not leave behind as the stars on the gained consciousness.” brow of evening. Good deeds will patience! What wound did ever For a long time Benning sat look shine as the stars of heaven.— heal but by degrees?—Shakes ing across the blur of somber faces peare. 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All day pinafore alone, your tot can be as Benning had been shut off from the carefree and hoydenish as she Think Twice Education’s Effect War Department with its staggering could wish, playing on the sands Think twice before you speak or Education makes a people easy problems, black uncertainties, and or the greensward or her own act once and you will speak and to lead, but difficult to drive; easy crushing workload. backyard. When she adds the bo act the more wisely for it.— to govern, but impossible to en Official reassurance was being fed lero, she’s as demurely dressed for Benjamin Franklin. slave.—Lord Brougham. out over the radio to those sections a visit to grandma as you could of the country outside the immedi wish. The eye-protecting bonnet, ate reach of Van Hassek's invasion. of course, goes beautifully with They were told there was no imme diate danger of new air raids. 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Who was the first king of the ing and were pouring into the coun house of Windsors? try with such of their effects as they 5. Can eclipses of the sun occur could carry along. in any month of the year? In New York, Washington, Phila delphia. Baltimore, and other great The Answers centers of population, organization against air attacks had been fever 1. The secretary of state has ishly undertaken. The Middle West charge of the Great Seal. and West were told there was no 2. If an electron and an orange present need for alarm. However, could be niagnifu d equally until some highly alarming, tf uncon- the orange was as large as the firmed, reports of a mysterious earth, the electron would still be brewing of mischief in the Orient, too small to be visible to the un had the coast cities on edge. aided eye. Mobilization of the four existent 3. “Alice’s Adventures in Won Regular Army and eighteen Nation derland.” al Guard infantry divisions was re 4. George V. 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