Bisbee daily review., 1917-12-02
MARSHAL HAIG
STOLE A BISBEE
MANS THUNDER

DO you know that Field Marshal
Haig was two years behind me with
his idea of using tanks to clear the way
Tor his infantry" asked a we'll known
Bisbee man of the newspaper man one
morning this week.
The newspaper man did not know
this. and said so. and then settled him
self for a story.
1T is a fact, nevertheless" went on
the Bisbee man, who has a reputation
Ior conciseness of statement and
truthfulness of narrative II had a
fleet OF twenty armoured cars con-
tracted Tor and ready for delivery. and
flock of airplanes on the way to the
border. We had already planned to
send in the armoured cars ahead of
the infantry and take all the Mexican
towns close to the border tina. were
held by government troops. But bling.
they put Madero's light out. and this
fine scheme went for nothing. Nov
comes Haig and wins much glory and
many German positions with it," And
here the Bisbee man sighed and with
difficulty was prevailed upon to resume
his Story.
Well" he continued at last, Il haG
friend in Mexico City who was close
to Madero and | also had a friend in
the automobile business in California
And like Athos, IJrthos, Aramis and
D'Artagnan, the immortal musketeers
of France and Dumas, We decided to
change the map and overthrow mon
archs and seat and unseat kings.
THE automobile people were anx-
ious to exploit their new car and we
surely had plenty OF work for those
cars to a.. We had 'em rugged up
with a machine gun fore and aft and
weighted down with enough steel to
stagger a seventy-horse power engine
to haul around. The idea of sending
these cars into a Mexican town and
stampeding 'em before the infantry
came up was mine. am a modest |
man, alright, but want that small por-
ton of credit on the page of fame and
new ideas. But necessity was the I
mother OF that invention with me. You
see we had only a small amount OF in
fantry, and We had to conserve EN-. 4
Only one hundred and fifty men were I
on the muster roll OF the army with /
which We were going to capture all |
hat PORTION Of Mexico lying between |
Naco and Mexico City.
One section of our headquarters
was in California and the other was
not so very far from Bisbee. Napo!- 1
con himself never had a better or more 4
carefully laid out plan of campaign. I
Before letting the tanks loose upon I
them We had decided to send an air. /
plane OF two to Mexico City with in /
structions 10 drop bomb on every I
camp of government troops along the .
way. The idea of this was TO stam- !
pede 'em. A bomb dropped from the 1
sky on a dark night on "a camp Gre i
will scare any Mexican army of the |
face OF the earth-or at least 1t would +
have done 50 in those days Wien the 4
gentle art of dropping bombs was in
its infancy.
"Madero was hard pressed for il at .
the time we started our campaign I.
plans He was to send us a million !
from Mexico City to finance our ex-
petition. While We waited our Cali /
fornia musketeer got cold feet Some .
Huerta follower got wind of the al /
fair and planted a bomb under his .
house in Los Angeles. Well, he moved I
to Frisco, and all the kings horses I
and all the kings men could not bring
him back again. Our army was mob
ilized alright, and they were the pick l
OF the land III bet most of them
joined the Foreign Legion in France
long ago. Crack shots. every one nj
them. and not afraid oi Mexican, noun
tat lnn or maneatinS SERPENT. Ten