The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1921-03-31

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Emery; IS years you've wyted for
vengeance. my love. but toby 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 of q
traf1c officer. "Batter-r-ry 'altw 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 Obeying such a
command whenever given. Instinc-
lively the column slowed up; some of
the Foreign Legion, old coast artil-
lerists. no doubt, came to a halt with
promptness and precision; all stared
at Mother jerks.
low about 'arf a dozen cases o.
good brandy for the wounded7" Moth
er jerks suggested. AN 'ow about a
bally old woman for a Red Cross
nurse?"
You're on, ma'am," the foreign
leader replied promptly. and translat-
ed the old lady's suggestion to DR..
Pacheco, who accepted gracefully and
thanked Mother jerks In purest Cas-
lillian. So q detail of six men was
told off to carry the six cases of
brandy out of Ell 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
Ruey shrewdly suspected ii might be,
poorly garrisoned. 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 a 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
| ", 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-
tanned only his favorite troops of the
| guards and one company of the Fiji
teenth infantry to protect the palace.
Acting under hastily given tele-
phonic orders, the commanding off,
COR OF tho cantonmapt In rro cks bod
detailed few hundred men to fight
rear-guard action while the main army
fell back in good order behind a rail-
way embankment which swept in a
wide arc around the city and offered
an excellent substitute for breast
works. This position had scarcely
been attained before the furious adj
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
ammunition.
The arsenal, a large. modern con-
crete building with tremendously
thick walls reinforced by steel. would
have. offered fairly good resistance to
the average field battery. Surround
Ing 1t on all four sides was REIN
forced concrete wall 80 feet high.
with machine gun bastions at each
corner and q platform along the wall,
inside and Is feet from the grosnd.
which afforded foot room for infantry
shlch Gould disc the too ave feet OF