The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-24
WAR GAME ON IN EARNEST
BRIDGES OYER RIVER NEAR
 PORTLAND "BLoWN UP.w
Military Forces Taking Advantage of Everything They Are Entitled to- Training ship Alliance Ordered to Leave PortIand-wireiess Telegraph station Captured and Operator Arr rested

rested.
 Portland. Me-. Aug. 2S.-Major Gen. | eral Adna R. Chaffee, who is to be the | commander of the army in the war
 manoeuvres at this port this week, ar ! rived on tn esteamer North Star from
 New York this afternoon. With him I were General Barry, Captain Harper | and Captain Hamilton. The bridges over the Nonesuch river,
 Scarboro. was blown up' to-day. This
 will nos alarm anyone who wants to
 drive oyec them unless he is naval
 man. If he is he can't go. Anyone else
 will be able to rid cover them as usual.
 The blowing up of these bridges, of course, makes it impossible for land l ing party to make good to the west Of the river, and having taken care. of thsi
 the army will do the rest on the east side O. the river.
 Since actual warfare is not legitimate
 until midnight Tuesday. it might seem linexplieable that bridges could be blown
 up and wireless stations captured be-
 Gore that time. In an interview to-
 night with an Associated Press corre- | oPohaClIls dSilSTdi SHdIIeS Sdlus
 These are merely precautionary
 measures which it is legitimate to pur-
 sue during the period of preparation which we are allowed before war is actually declared
 The extreme outposts along the outer cape shore were thronged with visitors | to-day. but notwithstanding this they were doing business. The camps have all been built up in such fine shape that
 the regular army officers who have
 visited them conn2limented the officers
 and men Of Major Welch's volunteer
 battalion.
 Lieutenant Bigelow, commanding off,
 eer of the naval reserves, was an inter- ested visitor to the camp at Two Lights
 but sor obvious reasons he was not warmly welcomed.
 Major Welch and his officers and those of the light batteries that are
 camoed at Silver Springs. went out scouting to-day to pick out all the
 places where the navy would be likely
 to try to land, It seems to be the gen.,
 eral belief that there are some cable
 cutters among this section of the navy
 and every nreeaution Hill be taken to ward off their attacks.
 The. United States training ship AL liance which has been in the harbor for
 the past week, sailed tonight under or
 ders from Rear Admiral Barker. It
 is runlo-ed that her presence was dls- tasteful to the defending forces, which,
 it is said. thought her ship.
 Major We1ch, N. c. s. M, late this afternoon captured the wireless tele- graph station near the Two Lights and put q guard into the building to pre- vent Electrician Burbank. who was in
 charge. from giving any information to the enemy, with whom he is suppost ed to be in league. Brigadier General Frank L. Hoyt, inspector general of the Maine National Guard, was in the sta- tion at the time and Electrician Bur- bank was explaining to him how the machine worked. when Major Welcll apaeared on the scene under orders from the commanding officer and asked Mc Burbank with which side he
 Bought. Mir Burbank said he had rather not tell him and Major Welch then said i. was his painful duty to ildhe HiIH 9TlSoller oL war anu lake possession of the station MT. Bur
 bank bowed to the inevitable, since Ma
 jor had taken the precaution to have with him more than three times the number of men employed at the station.
 Colonel Dunwoody. the chief signal officer, has built up a series of search lights and stations that the officers say has never been eaualled in the world. The lights are run by a regular sched- ule, and each one has it's zone of action, no two crossing in any way. They are arranged to be run collectively if nec- essary, but unless orders are givenr. for this, the work is done nthe zone sys- tenn +%. sEata