Dreben was a Jew, and on the American continent Jews were not considered as possessing an especially pugilistic nature. That was, before the European frac But Dreben was the exception that proved the rule. Fighting was In his blood, also a sense of humour.
And it is related of him that during the Zelaya revolution in Nicar-Jagua in 1912 he was cornered in a Pocket together with another Ameri-cane, Gabe Conrad, by a score or more of the opposition.
Early in the engagement Dreben was wounded, their bullets were running low afd the only alternative was taking to machetes, the Jong nana-cutting knife that is to the Central American native what a boomerang is to the Australis bushman. They are born with them, [brought up with them and time and again have thrown away rifles in the heat of battle to use the, weapon with which they are past masters.
Tt looked a forlorn hope but Dreben kept his companion's spirits tup with the remark, "They can't Kill me cause there ain't a Jew graveyard in all Nicaragua And they didn't. He lived to see a better day.
His career started in the Philippines, China saw him in the Sun Yat-sen revolution, then "came Nicaragua and Mexico. Tu the latter country he acted as Chief Guide to Pershing on the chase after Villa, and in recalling that jaunt some time later to the writer, Dreben made the following interesting obrhe United States wasn't after lia, I discovered that before we were down there a month. What they were doing was testing Perishing for the job in France.'
And as Pershing went to France, 30 did Dreben. The latter as a Sergeant in a regular U. S. Army division. And so well did he Tike the heavy going that he came back possessor of the American Disting-Juished Service Cross, the Croix de Guerre with Palm, and the Médaille highest French award to fan enlisted man. But it was not. from Dreben that one could learn of his conquests.
The Distracting Smell of Powder Then there was Guy Molony. a native of New Orleans who early powder, and his nineteenth birthday found him in South Africa with the British forces.
The succeeding years contained a medley of allegiances from the United States in the Cuban'war to 'a trio of Central American countries, sometimes on the side of the winner, Ten years after having won a Coloneley in Nicaragua he was carrying on in a Panamanian outbreak when came the big show and Molony returned to the States. American entry found him a private in a regiment from his native city. He returned a Colonel in a, crack artillery outfit and the grateful townsfolk rewarded their wandering son with the post of Chief of Police, New Orleans is a city not especially known for its docility and though Molony had his hands full the work soon palled and he returned to Central America, Today finds him as bodyguard and General of the Army under Dr. Paz Baroana, Presidente' of Honduras, a job to his liking and one that necessitates his always being armed whether the cause is a meet= ing of the Honduran Senate or a trip through the country, Should you question the credulity of the former, consider the start of the present Nicaraguan affair when a section of the country's Senate broke up a State reception by shooting down the chandelier in the national palace and so terrorize ing the Presidente that the next day left the country.
On meeting Molony at Puerto Cortez, Honduras, recently and being entertained by him, the writer had occasion to go into his bureau for a pistol and in a far corner of the drawer were reposing a quartet of medals one of which was for burg" but the irate host insisted he had purchased it and the others at ferent times.
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