Bisbee daily review., 1917-06-03

her with the assurance that their DO
 sitions were so strong they could holt
 out another 24 hours, if required
 by which time help must surell
 have come to them from the regular
 army and the National Guard whicl
 had been mobilized for border duty
 Against this argument there re mained the unquestionable fact that repeated telegrams evoked no re sponse from any quarter.
 And re-enforcements at any time would arrive too late to prevent hide ous mortality in the ranks of the de- lenders.
 Toward mid-morning a second series of most violent assaults was launched against the mainline trenches, and though each in turn was thrown back severely punished. each took its toll of American lives and by so much lessen ed the ability to present impregnable resistance.
 But by noon Huroki seems to have made up his mind that further ef- | forts to take the trenches by storm were futile. There fell Hull in the fury of the combat between the in- fantry forces, while a fianking move ment on the part of the Mexican cav airy was met and confronted by a ! cloud of rough-riding plainsmen un- | der the leadership of Rodman Pills bury.
 Then again the artillery duel was resumed; but there was in this some thing strangely perfunctory, as far at least as the work of the allied gun ners were concerned. The suspicion was warranted. and by subsequent events was borne out, that Huroki was sparring for time.
 He was awaiting the arrival of heav- fer artillery; whatever those circum- stances were which delayed its com ing with effective range till dusk of evening, they alone saved Patria's forces from nnihilation-thoughm much credit is due to the scouts of Patria's flying corps for the willingness and skill with which they engaged the Japanese aviators and drove them from the sky above the American positions, pre- venting their locating the hidden bat teries.
 The last traces of light were dying from the sky when Huroki's heaviest metal came into action.
 Simultaneously new and extraor> dinarily vicious assaults were made upon the trenches.
 And still no word from Washing ton or from any other quarter to which appeals had been telegraphed!
 It was not till midnight that scouting party dispatched by Donald Parr brought in an explanation of this ostensible indifference on the part of the authorities to the fate of Patria's devoted little band.
 Then it appeared that the wires had been cut by Japanese spies, who had received-and suppressed-all mes- sages dispatched by Patria's field head quarters, in such manner as complete ly to deceive her telegraph operators.
 In short, 1t transpired that not one of those many frantic cries for help had been beard but by enemy ears.
 Throughout a night of hopeless hor- TOT the battle ragged. From the mo- ment when Huroki's great guns en- tered into the contest there was scarce ly single perceptible break in the succession of assaults upon the trenches till dawn broke upon their desperately thinned ranks.
 And with the dawn came the final effort, a charge in force that taxed to the utmost the courage, resource and ingenuity of the Americans. That it broke and was swept back can be counted as nothing short of miracu- lous.
 As it did so, Donald Parr fell, his shoulder shattered by shrapnel.
 When he recovered consciousness in her arms, and she knew that his hurt was not mortal, Patria took into her own hands the command which she had resigned to his. Conferring by telephone in person with her staff, she ordered the effort of the last re- SOrI, tue IOriOTu uOpc WuCu uuo Occu reserved for that moment when the day seemed lost and sacrifice of self alone might stem the tide of defeat.
 All defensive tactics were abandoned. The men were ordered from the trenches, to advance, to charge and keep on charging till the last man fell. To give them heart fleet of tanks armored caterpillar tractors carrying machine-gun crews-were loosed upon the enemy.
 Looming through the gray, formless light of the newborn day like mon- strous armadilloes vomiting fire and death. they crossed their own trenches and met and broke a charge of Japa- nese and Mexican infantry, scattering it like chaff.
 As the enemy turned and fed these terrors the Americans forsook the shelter of their trenches and pursued.
 At the same time masked batteries came out of hiding and moved forward to closer positions in the open.
 A daring raid of cavalry captured a 42-centimeter howitzer and turned 1t rnon ifs own DpOnIp