Evening Star Newspaper, October 18, 1931, Page 113

T The Sundiy Shar. T SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18,1931 THROUGH THE ENEMY LINES! ©1831, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., Great Britain rights reserved. ON TREIR WAY TO CARRY EMERGENCY RATIONS TO THE BE-— LEAGUERED FORT OF BEK-EL-ABIR, TARZAN AND CAPTAIN ARNOT FIND YOUNG LIEUTENANT CARNOT, WOUNDED LEADE! AND SOLE SURVIVOR OF A DESPERATE SORTIE FROM THE FORT THROUGH THE LINES OF THE MOORISH TRIBES MEN. LIEUTENANT CARNOT URGES TARZAN AND CAPTAIN DARNOT NEARING THE FORT THEY SEE MOORISH TRIBESMEN TO LEAVE HIM AND PUSH ON WITH THE FOOD. BOTH AHEAD., THEY CROUCH IN A HOLLOW IN THE SAND, MEN, HOWEVER, REFUSE TO ABANDON THE YOUTH. WAITING FOR THE NIGHT BUT . ¢ ¢ o o s o WITH ESCAPE SEEMINGLY IMPOSSIBLE TARZAN AND THE TWO " : FRENCH OFFICERS ARE ... THEY HAVE BEEN SEEN BY THE FIERCE TRIBESMEN DASH TO THE ATTACK PETERMINED TO FIGHT TO A THE KEEN EYES OF THE DESERT- FINISH IN THEIR SAND HOLE TRAINED TRIBESMEN » : SURROUNDED BY THE TRIBESMEN, THE APE-— MAN AND HIS COMPANIONS FIGHT ODESPERATELY. AND IN THE MEANTIME . ¢ o o o Sl THE SOLDIERS OF FORT BEK-EL-ABIR, DESPERATE FROM HUNGER HAVE MUTINIED. THEY ARE DETERMINED TO ESCAPE FROM THE A$ ONE. OF THE MOORS PLUNGES INTO THE SAND FORT, AND CAPTAIN DU FOURS 15 EQUALLY DETERMINED HOLE, TARZAN REACHES FOR THE HORSE'S BRIDLE. THAT THEY SHALL NOT. HE FACES THEM, REVOLVER IN WAND. REACHING THE FORT, TARZAN POUNDS ON. THE MASSIVE GATE. BUT THERE IS NO ANSWER. THERE IS NOT A LIVING PER- SON ON THE PAR- _APETS. THE FORT | . APPEARS TO BE " DESERTED. " THE SWIFTNESS OF HIS ACTION GIVES HIM A LONG LEAD IN THE RACE TO THE FOR}