A din Dias race if the colonel and the kaiser are laughing no one can blame them for they surely have a laugh coining coming tuesdays announced that a vast army of american soldiers had been collected and was baut ready to begin to commence to think al a k kut ut beginning to get ready to start into mecio after VH vil la who make monkeys ekit of several american officers and killed a lot of soldiers and civilians at Col columbus N M last thursday the list of excuses for the success of the raid would do credit to the most ingenious excuse maker in the first place the officers of the U S troops did not know that villa was planning a visit just at that time and not on the watch they did not think that the usual precaution of sent sentries rieti was a part of the training of our soldiers and did not seem to remember abat they had been on tho border three or four years for asa As a result a bunch of bandits entered the heart of a military post and slew innocent women and children the soldiers were supposed to protect bilat a black mark for the officers of the U S army I 1 to the complaint that the soldiers were too slow in setting into action and in driving out the raiders the perfectly legitimate excuse is offered that the guns would not work havo have the men too much to do that thoy thay cannot give their equipment an oc cas ional cleaning up hag has the U S army no of inspection for F or what purpose is all the red tape of the army what would happen to td ono cf ef the generals of the kaiser kaber if ho would report after tho enemy had entered his own lent tent that he forgot to put sentries out and that when be he did get his men waked up they fowl found their guns rusty and dirty the recent happening ai at columbus is surel surely a lesson to the army officers and an argument for preparedness for it certainly shows what little excuse for an army that we do have lo 10 be a joke and disgrace if texans bad authority to protect their own property instead of leaving it to bunol bunal incompetent and neg at army my officers villa would never barc crossed the line it is to be hoped that this instance will at lest least keep the army awake during the next few weeks