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Show i THE LEW SUN. LEIII. UTAH I . .M1 Kt Ei' -.TSJT II I -tif I I J.Ji.,rfii ,1 Ail' ., , , 1 I Jt I A X II til IF 4 i " -v. x . mi j 1 " l: - INSTALLMENT ELEVEN FAR: Intelligence'" from tbw air; Washington was bombed ana me i-resiueui niueu. nuwou mrcc were ordered mobilized, but they were 111 prepared lor Immediate action. General Gen-eral Brill, area commander ot the army in Texai, reported to General Hague, chief o! staff at Washington, that be was being attacked by greatly superior its regimental reserve line. A second sec-ond attack launched against that line, if it succeeded, meant inevitable 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 8th. They hit with a vigor that halted 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 artillery artil-lery roared on, machine guns, light cannon chattered and boomed. Now the volcanic eruption of battle lost something of its volume. The cries of the stricken could be heard, plaintive 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 misled mis-led him to disregard sound tactical principles- No matter if the enemy en irnvt - - ' Vi warning that ZUO, re poUed In Mexico for Oie United States caused '", In army headquarters, m. branded the statement PT,in.'' Without warning, r. H.rn clUes wer. attacked rfliPTER Xl-Contlmied Sftjumble of action Boyn- :S5e fall of wounded men, rf Ses of pain, and the ; J.manders' whistles, the 1 a Kifle flashes. stabbed fig dawn as the enemy S I the ground and fired ; Bomton hugged the earth enough to satisfy himself it was an anam - ne nau cn- ' ',n hark, his men nring m- intlyastheyran,totheshel-rf intlyastheyran,totheshel-rf (ox boles in the outpost. J Sport Une. lightly held, ivllead from its semi-automat-Machine guns. When it found -confronted by superior forces. jn promptly retreated to Min line of resistance which a ragged, irregular line of cba and centers of resistance ',, front of ten thousand yards, a Hassek's infantry, in waves men that reached across the le front, struck the main line of stance just as visibility exposed attack. obnel Hail of the 9th, observing from a vantage-poim, ex- nnthine more than that. Lat ches Van Hassek's scheme of leuver had cut a critical Hole the division's vitals, tne wnoie :e of the frontal attack wouia 3e rushing in to mop up witn sower and bayonets. . 9th's Garand rifles, light ma- e guns, 37-millimeter cannon, small mortars poured all their fury into the surging assault ; enemy wave after another melt- into dead and wounded, but only be replaced by living waves that sei relentlessly on. ilf an hour of furious fighting ;sed before Colonel Hail accepted evidence of his own eyes. My God, the fools are going to etrate our center!" he roared. Astride the Laredo-San Antonio hway, Van Hassek's infantry :ve ahead while successive waves men melted across .open terrain ere there was little benefit of cov- Desperately the enemy com-nders com-nders fed in reserves from their perior hordes of men out of which ;j could pay the red costs of their or in underestimating an enemy .0 had not been expected to offer ions resistance here. Wiat Van Hassek's infantry lost ieir slower bolt-action rifles they de up by auxiliary arms, light ichine guns, mortars of many cal ls, light and heavy tanks, superi- 5 of artillery. Shrapnel, mor- s, and musketry now beat down the American centers of resist- :e with the red convolutions of Tie Satanic scourge escaped from J- van Hassek's men burst ahead ilBoynton could see the distend- eyes and gaping, grimacing ter-of ter-of their faces, as they bared mselves to a death against which ?y did not dare turn their backs, enemy poured on into Boyn- : s strong-point. Boyn ton became lre that the survivors of his men re breaking, stubbornly fighting bayonets, grenades, and mus- ;rJ as they fell back. Now he saw ;my tanks rolling in on his men, is whose steel armor deflected regiment's ancient 37-millime- " guns that were being used until new anti-tank euns could be re- :ed from paper models to actual 3Pons. Boynton turned to rally "len, giving to his voice the full ;Rgth of his lungs. Up and at 'em!" hp rnH "To -1 with the swinpi." His w, ciuuvc UJC D I VI 111 second time he raispd his wni ;a be staggered drunkenly, spun I arOUnrf arA ! , uu icu as toiisuiuus- S Snapped from hi hrain onH 5 We snuffed out v ving committed themselves to ! Wly of frontal attack, the Van ;w commanders fed in reserve er reserve reeardlpss r,t nt tn jr termination to break througb uiue aelay as nossihip Onw J succeeded in driving a wedge P enough intn ho Am; F'ttey knew that the whole Ameri- 7"or wuld roU up in a chaos tj --tciiia. 3ul to accomnlich ;B r tr. . mho, y nda1 ro ' 1 anve xnrougn needing lines. Pan ,,.; ;f ed another equally resist- "Uai UiP Amirii... J rary capons they made up by Kim; "eming spint r udra as steel that put "r uie terrors of aear ear to Wl ana surrendp,. tj 7 r The enemy tanks rolling in. had done the same thing by making a stand, the next move now was up to Van Hassek. At the division command post General Mole had slept through the morning preparation fire. Only by vigorously shaking him had his aide been able to rouse him out of his sleep. Dosing himself with strong coffee, Mole cooUy watched the de velopment of attack. The Van Has. sek strategy had a right to suppose that the Second would hold lightly and run off to successive delaying positions. . Anxiously, Mole ana nis sian scanned information as it came in over the field wires and from obser vation planes. Van Hassek s tortuous tortu-ous columns still were moving up from Laredo. But no fresh movement move-ment of reserves was located in the immediate American front. Botn the Brownsville and Eagle Pass columns col-umns were several hours travel from striking range of either flank. Casualty reports came in, roughly computed, by noon. Une nunarea and seven officers, most nemenanis. Nineteen hundred men. A fifth of his command gone, many of them offi cers and men with whom he haa served through long years of peace. But discipline held up, and a stern. stubborn fighting spirit pervaded the ranks. That word came from the commanders of infantry who naa taken the brunt of the losses, it came from the artillery regiments which were still being pounded by long-range artillery. Against odds of men and weapons weap-ons there remained the valor of a manpower that could be conquered only in death, or lawful order of retreat a men battle and impulses of TT.nH i m Unks faUed to teize n or drive tv, . I . uul position. n, avail. we lureino m... Jtr t enemy in- e for. e .U1 Gantry, late in new hV u. W toe Btorm rose aknB . ,Iuamry sought to on through 4Lndred y"d the invader - int f.. K"'s ",le sirong- "nother. The Second's 'izt tv . 5 wreatened by a teat would force it back to CHAPTER XII As succeeding battle reports from the Texas front poured into Washington Wash-ington over the radio, Captain Ben-ning Ben-ning was assailed by growing restlessness rest-lessness at his own inaction in the face of momentous events. Throughout Through-out the dav he had lolled about the cafes along Connecticut Avenue looking for the Van Hassek staff snips Fincke and Boggio. Evening fn.mrt him holdine the bag. toA nrplfpr of the 11th In- fanW' retreat from Laredo had wn rpnorted in meager but graphic detail along with the heroic stand of the 5th and 12th Cavalry Kegimems, retain Boll's achievement In pi loting his men through the storm of Van Hassek's air attacks naa surreu thp rnnntrv. Benning and Boll had been class mates at the Military Academy, naa gone to the 11th Infantry together as NEXT WEEK forces. General Hagne ordered him to resist tho enemy's advance at all costs. Brill hastily prepared plana with the help of General Mole, division commander. com-mander. Suddenly the American outpost was attacked by a strong force cross-Ini cross-Ini the Rio Grande. Now continue with the story. subalterns. Benning had served with the 11th for nearly a year until he went to the air corps, from which service he had been snatched for military Intelligence duty. Breath lessly he followed every scrap of available information on the 11th. Benning was picking at his dinner at the Mayflower when there came a final flash on the Boll incident 'You heard this afternoon of the gallant young officer. Captain Boll of our infantry," the broadcaster announced. an-nounced. "You recall that, although wounded in the cheek, he ignored his own wound and saw his men through to the Second Division south of San Antonio." The announcer paused, his voice shook with feeling as he read a brief dispatch from San Antonio that brought the incident of Boll to tragic consummation: "Captain Henry BolL 11th United States Infantry, died early this evening eve-ning of wounds received in action. Captain Boll collapsed a few minutes min-utes after reaching the hospital and died this evening without having re gained consciousness." For a long time Benning sat look ing across the blur of somber faces in front of him, then he left his unfinished un-finished dinner and went out into the street. The soldier spirit flared into revolt within him against this soft spot of his own present duty when there was a man's role on the border. bor-der. He walked to the Shoreham to get himself in hand. Even Flagwill's assertion that the Coalition spy nest was more dangerous to the country than Van Hassek's present invasion brought him small comfort But he finally reminded himself that he had a job to do and not until he had done it would there be hope of transfer trans-fer back to the line of the Army. Washington, the whole country, was in a state of furor. All day Benning had been shut off from the War Department with its staggering problems, black uncertainties, and crushing workload. Official reassurance was being fed out over the radio to those sections of the country outside the immediate immedi-ate reach of Van Hassek's invasion. They were told there was no immediate imme-diate danger of new air raids. The Army was pushing through its interception inter-ception nets and extending its intelligence in-telligence service to bring timely warning well in advance of any future fu-ture raid. New Orleans, Galveston, and other oth-er cities were being organized against air raids that could not be circumvented for the time being. It was a matter of avoiding crowds, of getting underground against demolition dem-olition bombs and gas. People who could leave those cities were urged to take refuge in towns and hamlets ham-lets until the danger could be brought under control, although tens of thousands needed no such warning warn-ing and were pouring into the coun try with such of their effects as tney could carry along. In New York, Washmgton, Phila delphia, Baltimore, and other great centers of population, organization against air attacks had been lever-ishly lever-ishly undertaken. The Middle West and West were told there was no present need for alarm. However, some highly alarming, if uncon-firmed, uncon-firmed, reports of a mysterious brewing of mischief in the Orient, had the coast cities on edge. Mnhilizatinn of the four existent Refiular Army and eighteen Nation al Guard infantry divisions was reported re-ported sixty per cent complete. The Third Army was to concentrate ,in Texas as rapidly as possible, but the War Department refused to give out military details. No censorship of military news had been clamped down as yet and the press was pruii- ,. without restriction, whatever , news it could get. Tannine ordered an elaborate din ner at the Shoreham. Though he had no appetite, he made a pretext of eating while he kept under observation ob-servation those who came and went Before starting on his rounds, Benning had stationed Lieutenant Jones, an Intelligence assistant, on guard over the Massachusetts Avenue Ave-nue apartment of Mme Pujol, with whom Boggio had dined and danced on the capital. Jones' instructions were" to hold Boggio under close observation ob-servation and let Benning know as quickly as possible if the Italian appeared. ap-peared. Seven-thirty o'clock passed, the Chief of Staff of the Army would soon be on the air In a nation-wide hookup. New dispatches came in from San Antonio. Flash "Bombers reported approaching ap-proaching New Orleans. Galveston, and Houston. The Government intercept in-tercept nets and intelligence service will give prompt advance warning if any planes fly north of Texas. Everyone Ev-eryone is urged to remain calm." Several persons got up from table at this news and anxiously left the Others kept determinedly in a few affected noncha- lant composure. Into the dining-room dining-room at this moment came Fincke, his face lined in a surly scowL He ,at down at a table across the room from Benning. i (TO BE COXTIMED) X V By Ruth Wyetii Spears Notes of an Innocent Bystander: Broadway Small-Talk: H. V. Kal-tenborn Kal-tenborn described him as "Von Rib-bentripe." Rib-bentripe." When we used it the air officials gave us a spanking . . , There's a Society for the Prevention Preven-tion of Disparaging Remarks About Brooklyn with headquarters in Manhattan ... The East 35th Street station house is going after the clip-joints that "took" several visiting R.A.F. lads ... If Sec'y of the Navy Frank Knox wanted to scoop the world, imagine all the daily beats (about naval matters) he could tip off to the editors of his Chicago newspaper. Sallies In Our Alley: Hettie Cat-tell, Cat-tell, the reporter, records the one about Charles Mac Arthur and another an-other scribbler who worked with him on the same gazette. They were at the funeral of a pal (and almost as stiff as he was) when the minister intoned: "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away" ... To which MacArthur yelled out: "Well, wot could be fairer'n that?" ... The present feuding of the drama critics has started rumors that the Prize Play, Instead of getting the customary custo-mary plaque, will be awarded the Gene Tunney Belt . . . NBC wouldn't permit commentator John B. Kennedy Ken-nedy to use this on the- network: "The only thing left for Mussolini to do is go over Niagara Falls in a balcony." Manhattan Murals: The 14th Street bookshop which prominently displays Earl Browder'f book: "This Way Out" . . . The impoverished looking gink on 42nd Street who peddles ped-dles "ten-dollar bills" three for a dime . . . The middle-aged swish who carries a woman's large purse, and stops In the street every few minutes to powder his nose . . . The sign In the Tenth Avenue mission mis-sion house lobby: "People Who Don't Write Home Don't Rate One!" . . . The midget usher at the Roxy who stands in the center of the huge lobby lob-by with a spotlight on him. Looks like a fugitive from a totem pole . . . The 50th and 6th Ave. restaurant which invites epitaphs about Hitler for the window display . . . The 9th Ave. place which placards: "We trust our food pleases you. Otherwise Other-wise we don't trust" Private Papers Of a Cub Reporter: Strikes and lockouts may deliver the knockout punch to the American 0f life that the Panzer divi sions cannot u is ume iur Viam talking. Democracy depends upon the Individual ... It cannot survive upon the blood and sweat and tears of The Other Fellow . . . uniess management and labor are each ready to yield a point Democracy will be forced to yield the field. Bv June, one and a half million Americans will have left their homes and jobs for the Army and Navy Those hovs are an example 01 sacrifice to both labor and capital . . . Their lives may depend upon Amer ican factories producing materials in time . . . Because Hitler's warehouses ware-houses already are bursting with ammunition for use against us au. These American boys know that th Battle of the Argonne was not foucht on any six hour day with time and a half for overtime And they know, too. that the Minute Men never wasted a second waiting for a dividend check ... The hour la tnn late for bickering . . . The time has come for all of us to think of public duty instead of private right . . . Every strike in the nation rmild he settled at once if the execu iv in the front office (who gets $21 a day) and the man in the over alls (who gets ?42 a week) would re member this: That tne American hn sets $21 a month) is DUluil " o ready to die for them both! George Holland and George Mac Kinnon were bitter rival cnaner colyuroists on Boston newspapers MacKinnon eventuauy jun nu nTT, to New York ... He is now at Medical Arts Hospital, where he underwent a major operation . . . He almost had a relapse the other day when his estranged wue laiso a Boston newspaper writer) wrote him that she was very sorry to learn about his being so Ui-Dy reacts George Holland's column! A Union CoUege prof has predicted that in ten billion years the sun will lose the fuel that keeps it going . . . Gosh! Another thing for Miami hotel-keepers to worry about . . . An Omaha reader writes that he asked a local German storekeeper why he opposed Hitler and Naziism ... He replied: "Even Hitler's Aryan air-castles air-castles have bars on the windows. Arthur Krock got agitated over the threat of Gov't censorship, and yelled "Boo!" In his New York Times colyum. One neighbor he failed to scare was ue iui. nillarist a column to his leit ToDicker. the very next day, off: "Freedom of the press was never nev-er mere widespread or more secure than it Is today" . . . 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