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Show so? ten Notify Pass end Fort Bliae." He paused to receive another report from Bart "Sir, Third Army Headquarter! just called in from Atlanta. They've a report from Charleston of bomb-o- n flying high over that city at o'clock, heeding north by eait" , Outiide there wee orderly commotion. Troops were pouring out of barracks and bivouac camps already, the first driven were moving their trucks out of the fort Another report from Colonel Denn. The colonel's voice now crackled with intensity. One of his a scouts, disguised as a Mexican peon, had the word from friendly Mexlcani that a heavy motor column was moving north from the vicinity of Palo Blanco. Another column was reported moving by night through Tamaulipas toward Brownsville and a third was said to have passed Mesquite, in Coahuila. headed in the direction of Eagle .Set that transforms And enable iccurately ? deal ji a good rt'wd inexpensive 'vet thats just what d send tor this 7fliat high-cut inteffi-fienc- Pate. An hour later the Second Divi-eiotrucks, filled with men, were INSTALLMENT FIVE whirring out of the fort; rubber-tireTHE STOBT SO PAE: Colonel sooa tosh him late his eonfldnee. Flag. artillery wee shifting its tight wlH, actlas efelaf of 04, U. A was Joiasd la Mexico City by military and medium cannon out of the zone iaislllfSBea department, animated than Dneoe, a Preach spy, who told of ware MS, Mi Earapaaa troops la Heal, possible danger. him that Bromllts had escaped. Ha An aide, whom General Brill had ca pro pa riai for aa attack oa tha Uett-a- d to Washington after learning Van StahM. Paalng aa Bromlite, aa Amer-iea- a sent out into the garrison to obHassek--1 piams for aa Invasion of tha traitor captured la Parli, Ixttlli-taac- a burst into headquarters, Halted States. Acting oa tho belli of serve, OOcer Bcaalas amt to Mexico thli Information tho President Mat aa breathless, hie face (tripped of City whan ha wai aasaipactlacly aUlmitam to Mexico demanding aa color. a aa offleer by Vaa Hassck, explanation of tha fonlca traopo "Sir, airplanes!" he panted. "Flylaadar of the fonlca araud fareet ia ca bar loU. ing high but you can hear them Moiea. Flncka, aaothar enemy oOcer, Now contiaaa with the story. coming! General Brill left hie staff at their CHAPTER VI Continued. troop concentrations north of ShangI read a news Sash on the Preii-den- ti hai together with concentration of allotted jobs end went outiide with hie aide. Die garrison wee dark, ultimatum in the San Antonio transport fleets. Russia had drawn worked behind drawn papers last night before I took off off to herself behind an unbreakable headquarters for Washington, sir," Bennlng said. curtain of censorship. Diplomacy ad- shades. The roar of motors filled the air If my opinion U worth anything. mittedly had broken down the world as trucks and artillery continued to Colonel, Ruiz will merely stall over, fretted capitals waited in the around In a play tor time. Hes con- grip of fear for the next moves hi roll out of the garrison. But above that he caught file sharp whine of a world gone mad. trolled wholly by Van Hassek. engines far overWere getting ready to mobilize Only In tha United States was tha army and National Guard, Ben-nln- there tranquillity left, a lack of fear head. The 89th Artillery tormentFla (will rubbed and tension. G--2 reports gave the had got Its guns in position, but wae ed band across his brow. Gad, same itory from over the country. what a headache If It finally comes There was lively interest but little withholding Its searchlights pending Suddenly a emaU to that! tension. War was something on re- development. WeD be lucky If we get any- mote horizons, isolated by broad plane zoomed down over the garrison and dropped flare that turned thing mobilized before Van Hassek seas. America wanted nothing to hits us, .Bennlng predicted. I do with it, wished only to be left night into day. Brill stood calmly observing. He mean If we wait much longer. alone with her peaceful Intentions. "Wait? Waltf What else can we Therefore no harm could come. The knew that flare was tha first violence do but wait? Tha people just sim- war scare was jingoistic poppycock of an invasion of Am United States. Ha knew that in a few minutes tile ply refuse to believe we're vulnerapromoted by militarists in their bombers would circle over their tarLata yesterday a quest of heavier appropriations for ble, Bennlng. of Fort Sam Houston and let prominent senator dressed down tha armaments. Just as though recent get President for sending an ultimatum millions pledged to them were In- drive. He knew, too, that there wae nothing he could do to prevent what to Ruiz. Said the present troubled sufficient As for those mercenary was to follow. time Is not one to rock the troops in tha Mexican army, our A hissing shriek caught his ears. own army could gobble them up In tile President was playThe press gave that a Jiffy if they were senseless enough Involuntarily he raised himself on ing politics. his toee and placed his fingertips tateaman almost as much space to start anything. at hie ears. A savage flaih of yelnow aa It gave the ultimatum. But During tha day Benning saw little low flame leaped from the earth into you get busy and type out your of FlagwilL Endless staff confer- the heavens. The ground under him in detail, Bennlng. General ences were being held, the whole hook with volcanic Intensity from Staff a haa called General Hague War and Navy Departments a beeconference for eight oclock. Hague hive of strained activity. A new the savage wrath of a heavy bomb. Long fingers of tight leaped into has been at bis desk constantly since plan was hot in the making, a torABth'e searchlights. your report came In yesterday no tured, Impossible plan, out of which the iky from the A heavy demolition bomb detonated one around here has had any sleep, the best must be drawn. in the field from which the trucks ril be back as soon as possible. It 'was a plan to meet the one Brill caught, in tha Bennlng dictated to a confidential emergency for which the United were whirring. momentary flash of light, tha grim clerk his report covering his moveunStates wee wholly and tragedy of shattered men and maments and observations from the prepared, the emergency utterly of sudden terial. Above the din he heard the in of Paris. his arrival day invasion. Another cries of wounded men. This done, he reproduced from At Fort Sam Houston, on the out- bomb crashed and another. Hie antimemory the Van Hassek operations skirts of San Antonio. Lieutenant regiment began crackling, map with Its numerous sinister red Colonel Bart, Corps Area 2 Chief, aircraft but hie handful of guns were alarrows indicating points of possible received a of bit informadisturbing most lost in the din of titanic thuninvasion of the United States by tion late in the day. Shortly after der tEist crashed from the sky. mfijor land force supported by warsunset a formation, identified ai Incendiary bombs rained down, ships and aircraft. over the Rio bombers, had bringing an Irresistible heat that ate Colonel Flagwlll came in from Grande at a passed Brownswest of Its way into all combustible parte of staff conference, his face gravely ville, headed point north. barracks. General Brill turned back tense. Bart had telephoned the village! into hie headquarters, eat down at "What's fretting the President is his next move. G-- has canvassed of Kingsville, Gregory, Skidmore, his desk stricken by his utter Beevllle, and Kennedy to the north but maintaining hie public opinion throughout our nine of the border, in Texas, without corps areas and finds the public isn't up any further .report of the Hie staff, their bloodless faces very much excited over the Mexi- picking which he concluded that drawn and lined, worked coolly, outcan situation. The President's ulti- flight, from must have taken the bombers opt wardly oblivious to tha danger. matum stirred up more curios- across the Gulf of Mexico. Information kept coming in, reports Too ity than alarm in tha country. He had alerted Galveston and New that had to be. appraised until the many newspapers treat the matter Orleans, but as the evening passed whole picture of attack and disapathetically, or question the vigor no reports came from those cities. aster had been assembled and apand finality with which the PresiNeither the basis for whatever Kelly Field nor Randolph praised Ruiz. dent went after Field had any planes out. A query later action wae to be taken. 's A stenographer brought in to Washington brought the response The wooden hangars at Kelly complete report and Flag-wi- ll that no American bombers were met Field were in flames. Randolph brows His seized it avidly. reTexas in the lower known to be San Field wai being hammered. as he came to the scene in Van or along the Gulf of Mexico. Antonio was in a mad panic which Hassek'a quarters at tha Falaclo gion The reported bomber expedition had got out of all police control. NaclonaL had followed a series of reports dur- People were flooding the streets, a saw You say, Bennlng, you Gening the afternoon that had put rushing about in a mad frenzy in black flag with crossed sabers with eral Brill and tha whole corps area their efforts to escape the city. officers the all and own ayes your on the jagged edge. A Mexican had Roads were choked with passenger saluted It? he asked sharply. brought into Laredo the report that vehicles. "Yea, air." heavy motorized divisions were But the Van Hassek bombers were bivYou didnt tell me thaV In your their major fury to Fort pending the day in screened confining vital verbal account. Man, that's ouacs in Coahuila and Nueva Leon. Sam Houston and tha flying fields, has That same flag information! Half an hour later came news which told General Brill that the been showing up In Europe among from Colonel Denn that wae not to attack presaged a crossing of the tha armies of tha Coalition Powers. be ignored. Rio Grande by mobile troops during and "Four flights have paesed over La- the night or at daybreak. Its also been reported in Toklo out that redo within the past fifteen China. Reports have leaked From New Orleans and Galveston the militarists are rallying behind Denn laid. If my ears know came report of raids that were still on taking matthat flag, hell-bean American plana these were not in progress. Hundreds were killed ters in their own hands if necessary. American. They were headed about in the streets. No other details. Of course, that's a subterfuge for due north, and traveling high end Shortly after midnight the violence Coalition governments to maneufast suddenly ceased, the bombers and ver behind while they keep up a General Brill calmly made hie own their accompanying attack ship pretense of peace negotiations. But estimate of the situation. Parked in sailed off to the south. Colonel Denn the presence of that flag in Van the grounds of Fort Sam Houston fyiiwi in again from Laredo. The Hassek'a headquarters ia highly sig- were the sixteen hundred shining head of a motorized column had I'll taka your report at new trucks of the Second Division, halted at Nuevo Laredo Juit south nificant. materionce to General Hague. of tha Rio Grande. Hie intelligence together with the division's and rappliee. The Second, alertBanning spent morning and afteral patrols had verified tide with their noon checking over the G--S reports ed and with all leaves impended, own eye. on complications and developments "AU right, gentlemen," Brill told was hi barracks and camp ready the world over. Notes of ambassa- for emergency. At Kelly and Ran- hie staff. Get the Second Division at, were tha together as quickly as possible and dors, consuls, army and navy dolph Fields, near-bytaches in foreign capital!, and sum- planes and supplies used in training tart them moving south toward the maries of press clippings all reflect- a email new army of pilota for an Nueces River! Tell General Mole of ed the unrest and tension that expanded air service. the Second I'll meet him at Kirk in "Have the Second Division fist three hours with hie orders for tha gripped the world. of of San Antonia Get Gentheir trucks out of here as eoon as Europe continued a maelstrom rumor. Germany, Italy, Spain, and possible," ha directed hie chief of eral Hague on the their allied Balkan states were shut staff. "They'D also disperse their again while I report Were going off by rigid censorship. On tha plea artillery. Notify the mayor of Son to do our best in a desperate situaof internal necessity they had closed Antonio and suggest that ha have tion, and I needn't tell you what were up againit! I'D be ready for their frontiers to foreigners, denied an hour, aliens all use of mails and wire your recommendations in Similar action had NEXT WEEK communications. gentlemen. (TO BE CONTINUED ) beat taken by Japan. Unverified AmeUrre AUaeiimf jedoUmeei reports cams from China of heavy I T I "Kelly field in flames. d Ben-la- c e ft 6 1 I 1 upon magically diminishing your waistline and accentuate to Betties, dress is gathered for It over the bust jacket, made with pleats a by a lt at the waist- in the front to show frill and buttons that (frock, with a charmingly at formal effect the j tie-be- ikSSfe i e. 44, 4S, for size sa. Size IS material and i d nfllng to trim the dress, !S nidi r C designed , 50, h to: PATTESN DEPT. Sts Xsetrsmerjr Asa. 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The water drained off may be saved for soup stock. Paint piazza and garden chairs now so that they may be thorough-- j ly dried before you wish to use them. a To prevent dough sticking to the spoon when making dumplings dip the spoon into hot liquid each time1 before putting it into the dough. after they ARE STITCHED SCREW TO A MRS. BOTH WYETH SPEAKS SOAtm Drawer YOU remember Bedford Hills how comforters used to Je tufted? They were made of :wo layers of fabric with cotton between and every four inches r so in rows the three layers of material were caught together with a stitch of wool yarn double which was then tied twice and :lipped to make a fluffy tuft. Well, that ia exactly the way many of today's smartest chair covers are made. A cover of this sort redeemed this old rocker and revealed its hidden charms. The cover is plain, medium green glazed chintz tufted with dark green yam and three inch dark green fringe is used around the bottom. A long zipper makes a center back closing. Each section of the cover was fitted on the chair in the muslin lining first and these pieces were used as patterns for cutting the chintz, also the cotton which was trimmed to be inch smaller all around. After the pieces were tufted, as shown at the upper right, the seams were stitched up. Long It ed Endesa SO eente far Now York end 8. Books 1 Nome Addrcso e IB a k l n gRS u c c es s ns aasnai TBSI (1)(3IL j To bake thatTaetyEaelerCaita -- Difference in Energy The real difference between men ia energy. A strong will, a settled purpose, and invincible determina tion, can accomplish almost anything; and in this lies the distinction between great men and little men. Thomas Fuller. Jlsk Me Another O A General Qui MAKE THIS NEW TREAT The Questions higher-power- g. Gilt picture frames can be restored to brightness by rubbing with a sponge moistened in turpentine. stitches were then made on the inside to catch the edges of the cotton in place. o aU lights cut off. 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