The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-08-25
ARMY AND NAVY MANEUVERS
THE PREPARATIONS FOR THE
 MIMIC WARFARE.
Hostilfties Open Friday Next at NIid- night-The Territory to bO Covered by the Offensive and Defensive Forces -Mnjor General MacArtiur Expected to Arrive in New London District To- day.

day.
 New London, Conn.,, Aug. 24.-Friday
 next at midnight war will be declared
 and the great game between the army
 any navy will be inaugurated on the
 New England coast, the battle territory
 being Gay Head off Massachusetts and
 Plum Gut at the eastern entrance of
 Long Island sound, which within 6 few years has become known as the Gibral- | tar of the United States and considered
 impregnable to an invading force. The territory includes the Boston,
 Newport and New London districts of coast defence forts, all supplied with ! the latest weapons known to modern warfare and believed to be able to cope with any foreign power or any known
 possible combination.
 | For the past two months there have
 been active preparations for war, or rather the game of war, at Forts
 Wright, Fishers Island, Terry at Plum | Island, Michie at Gull Island and Mans | llClu db 1NcpdLLCc OllI lllo ulSILl LlCl 1 the New London, is commanded by Col
 onel Davis with headquarters at Fort | Trumbull now dismantled and used as a base of supplies for the island forti- | fications. At the present time there are
 over 4000 troops stationed at the forts in this district mainly artillerymen, augmented with two companies of en-
 gineers' signal corps, and by the latter | part of ths week the two seacoast com panies and the signal corps of the Con- neeticut National Guard will be added | to the land force, while the three bat talions of the naval militia of the state | will be added to the naval force. Major-General Macarthur who is to command the maneuvers for the army, | is expected to arrive in this district to-
 morrow and assume command. With him will be General Randolph, chief ar- | tillery officer; General Gillespie, of the
 engineer corps, and General Greeley,
 chief signal officer of the army, and by
 Friday night all details for the war game will have been completed, ready 1 to meet the enemy, which in this in- stance will be the North Atlantic
 squadron, whose purpose is to force an entrance to Long Island sound, running 1 the gauntlet of the island Notifications
 or getting in a position that would ren- 1 der the forts practically useless were | they engaged in actual warfare. Um- pires on land and sea are to decide the points in the maneuvers on lines ap-
 proved in advance by the army and
 navy departments.
 For the past week the two fleets of
 war vessels that have been and are still
 maneuvering farther to the eastward will consolidate and become the attack 1 ing force, and those best competent to l judge assert in advance that the chances of success are favorable to the navy owing to the fact that the navy has had better opportunities for prac- l ticing the game, and also because on account of the large force of artillery
 men required to man the new forts, as 1 there are many inexperienced men
 among them. But after years school 1 ing the chances would be the other way, as will be probably clearly demonstrat- | ed a year hence.