The border vidette., 1915-09-25
BLIND FEAR OF YAQUIS.
Basil Dillon Woon in EogaIes Herald
 Tells of Gales Defeat.

Fear of the \ HaQuiS--fear of the little brown men who boasted that they took no prisoners nor l left no won 1ded in the field-of the guerilla fighters who did not know enough to turn back before a superior force-fear of Urbale jo, the Yaqui general these were the causes of the retreat of the Gales forces from Masca- renas to Del Rio.
 On the Cananea road Sunday afternoon. in a Stoddad- Day ton bands of Gales soldiers. Some were going forward and some back-but most were going back.
 This we could not reconcile with reports given out in Nogales before we left that Gales was beating cIaytorena back. It looked funny. Wagons passed us loaded with arms and ammu- nitions. Camps by the way were filled with tents, equip ment, and here and tn ere punches of horses. some of them with saddles but no riders.
 We asked several of the sol dierS we met what the reason was for the withdrawal of the supplies.
 "Quien sabe?" they answered, except one, who said the order had been given for a general re- tirement to Agua Prieta to forti- fly that town against the Villistas from Chihuahua.
 But the one invariable ques- tion was:'
 Where is Urbalejo? Is he at the front? Is he commanding Maytorena's army?"
 They wanted to know particul- ars about Maytorena's supplies, of his forces, of his cavalry, but most of all they wanted to know where Urbalejo, the white Indian," was, and where his Yaquis were. It was the Yaquis they feared with deadly fear.
 Maytorena was outnum bered five to four when he started his sally out of Nogales to drive Gales back. Maytorena only had 400 men mounted on horse back; Gales had over d thousand Gales had more guns than May torena; more ammunition; more men; more supplies of every thing, including food. He had a whole train loaded with flour and beans. He had a train made into a hospital for the receipt and care of wounded, under competent American doctors. He had the wherewithal to drive Maytorena back to Nogales and then to take the town.
 Why did he not do it, then :? Because he counted without the fear of his men for the Indians that's the reason.
 The Yaquis saw blood in this battle of Martinez. They slaught- cred their prisoners; they slaughtered the wounded of the enemy. They were asked how many prisoners they had taken.
 "Oh, eighteen or twenty" they answered at one time.
 What had they done with them? Where were the prison CTS? They had been given their liberty. Verify, it was liberty they were given. Liberty in the shape of a mauser bullet.
 This, then, was the reason for the rout of the Gales forces and it was rout. Armies do not jump fifty miles iu one day on an ordinary retreat. Half of tue Gales army is lost; nobody knows where it is. Some of them were driven off into Imuris pass; these have arrived, but hundreds are still unaccounted for. Dozens of places on the way offered splendid opportuni- ties for defense. yet none was offered. All the fight has left the Gales army, and they are going back to Agua Prieta a beaten body of men.
 I have mentioned this unre- asoning, blind fear of the Yaquis as the chief reason for the re- treat, and it was. But there is another reason why the Gales forces did not make the showing they were expected to make. The artillery was disappoint- ment. The only execution they did was with their machine guns and rifles; their shrapnel did no harm at all except to kill few horses and cattle.
 Shrapnel is not meant for guerrilla fighting. Of what use