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Show THE PROGRESSIVE OPINION Address for Framing ibl AbhZVjJmericiln Mould Head NEW IDEAS Jlsk Me Another O I A General Quiz jaA The Questions 1. How far apart are North America and Asia at the narrowest point of Bering strait? 2. What is a thimblerigger? 3. Why does a polar bear never STOBT SO FAB; lfa OOcar B waralux tawlfa troop war pobod la for aa attack oa Bw Ualted (rmv cuacira la army quarter. kat tk poopia branded tko atatenunt aa war maa(rio.N h last rataraad froat Hnlei city where tu rtwrldwill little note, nor wnember what we say M ''re modest word at Gettysburg Tor Lin-1-1 and Ameri-fSwmb- still live tor a.i expressed that day: fjovemmcnt of the people I tor the people shall the earth. Iffim (ddrcM. in Unedh'i at our new act. "Three Other Document." and the original aai lUht in Francto Scott Binncr. AU are handsomely cream on . riie. In cpl leaflet gtv-e- l a the document. For to: eeadyMr order j2ni! u SERVICE New Torfc CNy iKaArw U ecoti in coin for your ffeen GREAT AMERICAN long-rang- UPEI-IOM- twenty or thirty milei. An observation plane radioed in tha information. Van Rauch's heavy artillery had set up north of toe Nueces. Hole offered no comment. There was nothing ha could do about It until toe enemy came within range of his howitzers. His 4 Q0Rt fuming Shrapnel must come down, AeU fragments from anti-tf- l Jr fall like hail over the ton which the shells are Ihii is one of the reasons lirnid alarms to clear the H ud lurrounding zones of k vho might otherwise be at pet op if bp toe falling the Sudanis, fragments, U. S. bureau aiding to the average anti-n- ft shell is blown into ap-xutt- ly 2,500 fragments, rtf them small and relatively too. Occasionally, however, ! fall with velocity fragments CHAPTER A ths command era acattered toward their atation wagona and mill. tary sedans, tha bright Sky featered into a hideous bias of sound. It cams crashing In out of tha distance. The ear could trace it coune a it settled toward tha earth. An Instant's silence and the ground trembled under the Impact of high explosive. A geyser of muddy brown earth shot skyward, the air tilled with the mighty detonation. The departing commanders gave an anxious look at the spout of dirt, but changed neither gait nor posture. General Hole calmly touched match to the stub of bis cigar and gave several vindictive puffs. "Well, there's the first shot, he Sounded to me like a muttered. e baby probably from damage buildings and tserious or even fatal injury topic upon the streets. jh to cannons, good miles, had yet to be molded, mounted, tested, and delivered far fifteen to toe Army. As for his airplanes, there was no taking further risks over Van Hassek's moving columns. It didn't matter that tha air service had sent in the crack combat groups from an three of its powerful wings. Not tost American pilots and gunners had proved themselves tola morning much more than a match for the Van Ha sack airmen. The American squadrons had paid heavy pries for their swoops against Van Ha lack's invaders. Into ft one trap after another toe Americans had fallen. The first big (hell fell in an empty field well back from toe Second's front lines. A second shot followed e quickly, and the business at cannonading settled down into glum, racking routine. From a range of approximately twenty-twmiles, observation reported. The Van Hasack columns were still rolling forward In a great tortuous martial serpent whose tail reached far back acroii the Rio Grande into Mexico. The ten thousand men of toe division worked feverishly through toe hot afternoon, deepening and extending their trenches, adjusting gun position. They pretended indifference to toe roar of Van Hassek's artillery, to the frequent spurting fountains of earth that rose hideously one about them. In shell caught a full squad of men who in a flash were shreds of flesh. A stark reminder of what was to come. But the men who saw this tragedy went stubbornly on with their work. Out of the distance came toe rumble of light American artillery. The firing came from the Frio Rlv-- -, which meant that Major Randt, commanding, was potting at toa head of the main attack force. The sound asiff Van Hassek's counter-batter- y sault wafted in fifteen minutes later. It rose in volume. The artillery duel went on, growing in violence, which told the whole Second Division that the intrepid Randt was farcing toe Van Haisek advance guard to extend itself. Firing broke out to toe north and south on the extreme flanks. At tha division command post Mole and his staff waited on theca action with tense nerves. Three o'clock was near. If Van Hassek's Invaders could be delayed much longer, they would not be able to deliver their attack in farce against the Second before daybreak. General Mole and his staff made aa estimate of the situation. Mole's jaded face brightened In a moments exultation as his staff unanimously agreed with his own deduction. The Van Ha sack commanders would not be able to attack now unto morning. Their advanced divisions bad not even started Into assembly areas far battle deployment That means weve delayed them one day without a fight Mole ex claimed. "it gives us a real chance of getting through tomorrow without getting blown out of our shoes. After that-- we will see what wa will aee. But what a hen of a pounding we're in for tonight without any TEN a. a.aIN5IALLMENT as a spy aad gained IS coaldeaet ef Hack aad Brant, tv eatmy oBcan. Siddcaly bar lug oatbera eitiei wtr a tucked Iran a, air; Waihiaitoa va tombed aad the Preeldeat killed. Natloaal force were ordered mob Hired, bat they wet III r, desperate situation. Now eentteaa wltk the story. equlpjMd Car lm mediate action. General barked orders, their men. Stay put! Discipline slowly but surely prevailed over toe hot impulse of Men dove Into their trenches to bury their faces in the earth, or ripped off their cotton shirts, and wound them, doused with water, about their faces. Gas and not a gas mask In the entire regiment only ninety in the whole division and those for demonstration purposes in training tests. What frpe of gas had the Van Hassek barbarians put down? not a mustard or persistent gas. The Van Hassek infantry would not want the sector contaminated in the morning when they launched their attack to blast the Americana out of position. A noncom caught toe answer si his eyes burned into Live Now postpones the hour of gM he ought Ha is like the rustic the river to pass for f before he crosses; s on and will glide Of LOSS SUP but it on to tears. Tear gaii" he shouted. The sector commander cursed gain and trotted off to toe left, imparting a show of deliberation to hia gait Gas officers were making their calculation! of what appeared new gee. Scores of men, afflicted with a lachrymstion and bums that might extend over severtl days, would have to be evacuated to tha hospital at San Antonio for treat- ment Overhead the American aviation was redoubling its efforts. The Ud Pursuit Squadron was hanking over toa sector. The 77to Pursuit Squadron was patrolling to toe front That s audacious attack flight of Van had used its heels to get away OfTEM DUE TO MSNESS' jgarsgiii-j- i g.jfiswts'w STTrl ,,u h!dz ill i , Deeded Opposition amount of opposition peat help to 'a man; kites not with, the wind- .J. Female te Ralleve kriodic COMPLAINTS dui to Tgy.fu actions! dlatuiUannaa. Cd ' thousands of anti-aircra- ft and long-rang- e artil- lery I I When toe hot Texas sun slipped down to the horizon through the haxa in the west a furious roar of m ton swept tha Second Division. Tha flight of enemy attack planes, flying an altitude of lesa than flva hundred teat struck with toe sharp bite of forked lightning. Over toa 0to Infantry's sector toa attack planes appeared close enough Men to ha hit with a -- ADVERTISING 'eie,lfs the leadership of It points the way. xerdyfcllo, follow to DWghh of comfort, 'tonc of happdnsss. rUiioa 1 hand-grenad- e. or gaped after the apparition, ducked into their holes In toa ground against toa menace of fragmentation bombs. But there came no explosion. The enemy had not opened up with their machine guns. "Gael Tha warning outcry roes in volume from two thousand throats. Terror froze on mens faces. Officer d tSme goes on advertie naedmotei more, it i sand inora we more. It's the way . has lS r Malea Jaded face brightened. The American pilots wars Overhead the American aviation was redoubling its efforts. Pursuit and observation squadrons bad flown in from Louisiana and Virginia. OthCali- fornia. At the division command post General Mole and hia staff grimly watched the fading light of day. Thera was a tightening of tension slow-throughout tha sectors aa duak into and deepened them engulfed artillery pounded craaway laconically, tearing great area ters in the Seconds artillery and hitting near toe divltion'i mein line of resistance, and back in the night Long-rang- e bivouacs of the reserve. This told Mole that enemy observation planes had photographed hie position to detail and confirmed the hint of what must ha expected during the night Evident It was, aa toe enemy purVan Has-epose unfolded Itself, that brook to delay. mean not did With toe preponderance of force held he had by hia main Laredo columnmatter It no need to wait For that the Van hardly mads sense, within reaming, of Una n..Mk military comthat the Second Division would mit the bresh audeclty of ato.serious WithAn ton right in front of San the be would o5Bl only drawal Van course for the Americans, and Hassek had no reason to expect few holding anything more than realstanca at daybreak, battalions ana that would roll up to a hurry before hie massed assault k scatter W"Bombers flying in, altitude beten thoutween eight thousand and . sand feet I" an The warning came to from after plana a few minutes cammed nine oclock. It mereta heels Moles fears. 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One who swindles with the ed flying in. aid of three small cups, shaped The warning buzzed out over the like thimbles, and a small ball or field wire to the aectors. Men were pea. to take cover as best they could. 3. The soles of the polar bears More e artillery opened up. feet are covered with thickly set Night became another volcanic bed- hair which gives him perfect traclam, the Seconds position a raging tion. inferno that drove men huddling into 4. Salonika. their holes to claw frantically under 5. The mouse-dee- r of Indomaddening impulse to dig their china. It weighs about four way down, down out of it an. At- pounds. tack flights roared over, released 6. Tin. fragmentation bombs attached to parachutes small bombs that ex- Little Herbert Was There ploded on coming to earth. It confirmed Mole's theory that To Give the Game Aivay! Van Hassek expected an American withdrawal. This enemy blow fell On arriving home father found at exactly the hour toe Second would a foreign coin resembling a quarbe pulling out if such had been its ter in hia small change, so he intention. went out to do a little shopping, In toe 20th Infantry sector a bomb, taking Herbert, aged five, along. estimated a He went to the grocer's, and the fell to rear of a company position looking at the coin, said grocer, with a devastating force that re- with an air of surprise, "Why, this duced seventeen men to speechless, is not United States money I trembling impotence, though no man So the man went to the drugwae wounded. Later they were regists, and there tendered the coin. ported slowly recovering their wits The druggist informed him that the from toe shock and were not evacu- coin was of foreign extraction. ated. "Good heavens, so it is!" Van Hiisek's planes were operat claimed the father. "I wonder tag without lights. American pur- where I got that? suit hawks buzzed about, but were Don't you know, dad? spoke 'a Ineffective to the darkness. Van That's the one the up Herbert. fury rose and fell intermit- grocer wouldnt take! tently, then slowly dwindled away Into a mere barking of some long-ranartillery that was pounding the roads into San Antonio. Tha clash of musketry far out to front brought an anticlimax to toe crimson hurricane. Van Haisek patrols were pressing the American outposts, seeking information of an American withdrawal that had not occurred. Half a dozen Van Hassek riflemen were gobbled up by the Bth Infantry outpost and shunted hack for question. Over the field wire, Mole's staff checked casualties at eleven oclock. The bombardment had killed only 71 men, wounded 142. Another 80 were numbed by shock. Three had been stripped of their wits and sent back, to driveling madness, tor evacuation. Mole nodded hia head approvingly at tola small ton. It did not surprise him that he had lost so few men to toe Van Rand strafing. This wee not Mole's first battle. In France he had learned how frugal can be the night's harvest of artillery and bombardment Tve been talking to Brill at San Antonio, Mole told hia assembled staff when he had completed his newest estimate. "Fort Sam Houston took another air beating tonight Our air service has been forced to abandon Kelly and Randolph Fields. Galveston got a dose of mustard gaa tonight after our Regiment there goth shot down an enemy bomber. Its aU unspeakably horrible but my mind has had so many jolts I Just can't feel things any longer. but Mole General staggered caught himself. The light to hie unsteady eyes burned quenchable through the toxins of fatigue. There had been a lapse to hie memory, now he picked up the gap. "Put the Guard infantry to reserve just south of San Antonio. Also keep the mechanized cavalry out to look after our flanks. I am going to turn In for some sleep, but dont hesitate to call me If anything Important develops. Otherwise call me when the enemy preparation fire puts down on us to the morning. Good night, gentlemen. Has-sek- Has-sek- intact The Answers long-rang- o ho By Ruth Wyeth Spears slip on glassy ice? 4. St. Pauls epistles to the Theasaloniana were written to the inhabitants of the city now called rill, commander ef Uw army la Tent, reported to Geacral Sam at Washias-le- a what? 5. What is the smallest deer in that k wae oppoee fey iraatly tercu bat was ordered la rcelst the world? at an coots. General Mala, dlvliloa 6. What is the principal con-prepared I make the keel of a stituent of pewter? long-rang- ! Jfome-mahe- bt TAey err are years far fie esftfag le He Velce ef Hresteee wHh Richard Creeks, Margaret Speaks aad tke Plrestase Syatpkeay Us tea Orchestra, seder the direct lee ef Alfred Wallcatteta, Meedey eveelegs, ever N. B. C. 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