Show NOTED NOTEn SOLDIER OF FORTUNE IS BACK IN ARMS r Guy Cuy uy Mc lony le Leads s Honduran Federal Forces in an Battle J 8 Br Untied Press 1 TELA Honduras Nov IG General Generali i Guy was back in J the fighting today leading Honduran Honduran federal forces into the same region where he t once nce led the rebels l I although al He is General now though back Jn In the states this famed soldier of fortune is known as Colonel He runs a brewery over in San Pedro Sula but when the thet t t call caIl to arms sounded throughout the i country earlier in fn the week offered his services and the Honduran i government gladly accepted i L He is out to quell a post election i uprising and friends here are arc c cerr cerf r. r r f tam tain he is Js in the field where the fighting fight- fight j ing lag is thickest Americans here her and md back in New Orleans his time one-time home were r f wa watching his movements with interI inter inter- t I cst again They recalled the famous fighters fighter's Honduran campaign many years years ago when he was the mainstay in the army o of General Lee e Christ Christ- mas Christmas had been an engineer on ona a ba banana ana train in Spanish Honduras He went to New Orleans and organ organ- L Lied an expedition to capture the country a n veteran of ot half halfa a dozen wars and uprisings was Induced induced in In- to accompany him as commander commander com eom mander nander of the machine gun regi regi- ment W WHOLE OLE REGIMENT On landing at the Central American Ameri Amen can ean destination found he was the whole regiment There was one one machine gun and one burro at athis athis his bis disposal Nevertheless the expedition expo expo- r carried on It was decided to take the city of La ra Ceiba original scene of oC the present uprising Molon Moony his hs burro and machine gun stormed the van The Hondurans fought stubbornly and was wounded twice He was credited with killing General Fierra one of the federal commanders We were about to take La Ceiba friends here quoted as sayIng say say- I ing g and we asked General Christmas Christmas Christ Christ- mas for something to eat before the battle He Ho told us wed we'd get a good meal in La Ceiba if we captured it and if we failed we would go hungo hun hun- gry go The town was taken The present adventure is one of a along along long tong series in the life lite of the year 46 old fighter When he was still sUll in his teens shipped out of New Orleans to Cape Town South Africa taking mules to the British forces fighting the Boers He enlisted in ina a British outfit and was wounded in inthe the thigh by a Boer sharpshooter in that war THICK OF FIGHTING At the age of 18 he was in the thick of the fighting in the Philippines during the Spanish-American Spanish war He served as s police chief in Guatemala Guate Guate- mala City following his Honduran expedition and returned to the Unit ed States in 1912 Shortly afterward he enlisted in inthe inthe inthe the United States artillery Promotions Promotions Promotions Promo Promo- came quickly By the thc time of the Villa expedition to the Mexican border he was a major He Ic was commissioned com corn lieuten lieutenant colonel during the World war and saw service in France Prance After the war Molon returned to New Orleans and for three years he was chief chic of police there When he retired citizens of that city presented presented pre pre- pre pre- l him m with a check for With this money purchased a II home for his wife the former Miss Alma Roth of New Orleans She and their two children still live there visited th them m there in Octo Octo- ber e |