The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-08
GERMAN ARMY MANRUVERS
0o,OOO TROOPS WILL BE EN-
 GAGED IN THEM.

Begin To-morr, w-Distingntshed oGi-
 cers from Foreign Countries to Ob-
 servc-Force Divided Into Two Armies
 One an Invading Force the Other Ii
 DefendIns-Win Como in Touch To-
 morrow Morning-Now on the March.
 Frankfort -on-Oder, Sept 7.-In prep aration for the autumn inanoeuvres, which begin Tuesday, 92,0oO troops are spreading over the countryside in two armies; one is marching to the east ward from here by various parallel roads, while the other is marching west ward from Posen. It has been raining all day long. # Ii
 The general staff.a which Is the brains of the German military organization, once a year put opposing armies into the field under what would be the prob- able conditions in war. and notes the result, especially in the higher question of strategy. Each regiment and divi- sion is exercised frequently in minor manoeuvres in all weathers and under various typographical conditions, but the grand manoeuvres, in which sever al entire army corps are engaged, takes place one year in one part of the en- pire and the next year in some other To- cation and are for the working out of fresh combinations on great scale. The operations now beginning will be ex- tended over territory which Is, rough ly speaking, thirty miles wide and fifty miles long. The hostile army, the blues, is popularly assumed to be Russians It is believed to have penetrated the from tier and to be advancing. It Is compos- ed the Fifth corps and fractions of other corps, the whole somewhat less than 50,000 strong, of which 26.000 in in- fantry, 17000 cavalry and which com- prises four regiments of field artillery detachments of horse artillery, machine guns, balloonsists, pioneers, telegraph ists and a commissary department. The advance of the blues is presumed to have crossed line marked by the river Obra, tributay to the Wathee, and. to be seeking to gain the left bank of the Oder and possession of the railroad junction at Frankfort Oder.
 The defending army. known as the reds is made up of the Third army corps and the first division of the guards It is somewhat more than 40,0O0 strong, and is composed of 2S,OOO infantrymen. 11,000 cavalry, five regi- ments of artillery and the usual comple- ments of aeronauts, telegraphists and pioneers.
 The cavalry outposts of the two ar mics are to come in touch Tuesday morning between MeseritZ, Schwiebus and Bentschen This is all the general staff, for the present, permits outsiders to know Strategical movements and four days fighting with blank car tridges are to follow under the observa- tion of Emperor William and the most gifted military commanders of Ger many and foreign officers of distinction from Italy, Austria, Great Britain, Rus sia and the United States The British group alone includes Earl Roberts, Lieutenant General KellyKenny, Gen. eral French and General Ian Hamilton
 These maneuvres, in the purview Of the general staff, are only a segment of vast combinations that engage the whole army in imaginary action. It is probable that in the calculations of the general staff the forces engaged in the maneuvres are in contact with each ot her and the forces on either flank, or are working co-ordinately with armies on paper that have an objective which has not been revealed to visitors or cor respondents. The chief value of the maneuvres therefore, lies in consider ation which is only perceived by the board of strategists at the top of the general staff, while foreign visitors. not even those of the first rank, will see the full meaning of the operations. Their professional interest will be engaged in witnessing large bodies of troops han dled in the field.