The Lehi sun. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1913-1949, 1921-02-03

house and gave the Order 10 prOceeu
They marched along the water front
for four blocks and then turned up q
side street, which happened to be the
Gale de COncordia, thus enabling
Mother jerks who was peering from
the doorway Of FL Buen Amigo, to see
them coming.
"Hahl she muttered. Emery
they're comm, The worm Is turnin',
Emery; 10 years you've wyted for
vengeance, my love, but tod'y you'll
get It."
She waddled out into the street and
held up her hand In a gesture as au-
thoritative and imperious as that CT a
traffic officer. "Batter-r-ry 'altp she
croaked. She had heard the late En-
cry give that command often enough
TO have acquired the exact infection
necessary to make an impression upon
men accustomed to 0beylng such a
command whenever given. Instinc-
lively the column slowed up; some Of
the Foreign Legion, old coast artll-
lerlsts, no doubt, came to a halt with
promptness and precision; all stared
at Mother jerks.
"'0w about art a dozen cases o.
good brandy for the wounded?" Moth
err jerks suggested. can 'ow about a
bally old woman for a Red Cross
nurseT
you're on, ma'am," the foreign
leader replied promptly, and TRANSMIT
ed the old lady's suggestion to DIR.
Pacheco, who accepted gracefully and
thanked Mother jerks In purest Cas-
lillian. SO a detail Of six men was
told or to carry the six cases Of
brandy out of III Buen Amigo and
load them on the ammunition carts
then Mother jerks crawled up into
the armored truck with the machine
gun crew, and the column once more
took up its line of rapid march.
The objective OF this unsupported
force within the city was, as Ricardo
ltuey shrewdly suspected II might be.
poorly garrlsoned. Usually a force of
fully 500 men was stationed at the
national arsenal, but the sharp, saw
age attack from the west, so sudden
and unexpected, had thrown Sarros
into panic and left him no time TO
plan his defense carefully. His first
thought had been to send all his
available forces to support the troops
bearing the brunt of the rebel attack.
and 1t was tremendously important
that this should be done very prompt
ly, In view OF the lack OF information
concerning the numerical force OF the
enemy; consequently he had reduced
the arsenal force to 100 men and re-
talned only his favorite troops OF the
guards and one company of the Eff
teenth infantry to protect the palace.
Acting under hastily given tele-
phone orders, the commanding Off
Ger at the cantonment barracks had
detailed few hundred men to fight n
rear-guard action while the main army
fell back In good order behind a.rail-
way embankment which swept I'm n
wide arc around the city and offered
an excellent substitute for breast
works. This position had scarcely
been attained before the furious ad-
vance OF the rebels drove In the rear
guard, and pending the capture OF the
arsenal, Ricardo realized his opera
lions were at an impasse. Promptly
he dug himself In, and the battle de-
veloped into brisk affair of give and
take. involving meager losses to both |
FACTIONS, but an appalling wastage OF |
Ihe arsenal, a large, modern con-
crete building with tremendously
thlck walls reinforced by steel, would
nave offered fairly good resistance to
he average field battery. Surround
ng II on all four sides was a rein
'orced concrete wall 30 feet high,
win machine gun bastlons at each
orner and a platform along the wall,
inside and 20 feet from the ground,
Which afforded foot room for Infantry
'hich could use the top Ave feet of
ne wall for protection while firing
yer II. There was but one entrance,
heavy, barred steel gate which was
'~'' NNiA AoNhFh Mueu IL was not |
ecessary TO have II opened for In.
ress or egress. Given warning OF an
tack and with sufficient time to pre-
are for 1t, 100 OF the right yor; Of
shtlng men could withstand an in.
ennite Siege by a force not proyId.
with artillery heavier than an or
nary field gun. With a full reallza- {
On OF this, therefore, Ricardo and
$ confreres had designed TO arcom. {
ish by strategy that which could not q
done by the limited forces at their d
9
AS the column approached the /
ighborhood Of the arsenal. three de- y
broke away from the main y
dy and disappeared down side r
'eets' TO turn at right angles later n
d march parallel with the main II
Each Of these detachments n
IS accompanied by one unit of the u
'torcycle mounted machine gun bat. {,
y with IFS white Grew; two blocks %
'ohd the arsenal square each de- OF
hment leader so disposed his men
10 Oiier spirited resistance IN INV p,