The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-10-16
All Arms of the Ser
vice Will Take Act
i've Part in it
Besides the Regular Troops
There viii be an Army
of Militia From Six
States

I EDlA hlAtgr mas OIA- Az D1 SIR
ming today and continuing until Oc-
tober q the army reservation here is
to be the scene Of the greatest mill.
tary maneuvers ever conducted in the
United States. The success Of the
maneuvers held here last fan inspired
the war department to lay the plans
this year on a much larger scale. The
movements Of the troops will extend
over an area Of 225 square miles. in
stead of being limited to 70 square
miles. as they were a year ago. and
the number Of troops has been doub-
lied.
The game will be largely one Of
strategy. All OF the service will take
part in IT, The artillery will be rep
resented by nine light batteries-the
largest and strongest force Of field
artillery that has been brought to
gether in this country since the Civil
war-with Major William n CONN IN
command. There will be a brigade OF
cavalry. under General c. c. c. Carr.
and brigades Of infantry commanded
ID by Brigadier Generals Fred D. Grant.
J. Franklin Bell and Thomas H. Bar
! ~. In command OF all the opera
tons is Major General John c. Bates.
One Of the most important. not 10
say picturesque. features OF the war
game will be an attack upon convoy
OF food supplies. A supply train. COM
posed as IL is OF a string Of loaded
wagons miles in length. is obviously
vulnerable to assault and correspond
lngly dificplt to defend. The prob.
lem Is 20 fetch II through in order
that the victuals in question may not
; go 10 recruit the larder Of the foe
Where a railway runs through a
scene Of military operations. as in
Z this neighbOrhoOd, the control OF it
often determines the success OF any
army. Hence the importance Of Sc.
curing the mastership \of trafic over
the Union Pacific road. whichever
force. the blue or the brown. obtains,
theoretically speaking. the advantage
viii be in a position 10 cry mate" 10
its adversary
/ Questions Of this sort will be de
termlned by officers OF high rank ap-
pointed by the war department. They
will decide which wins. the blue OF
the brown army. when an attack Is
made upon a fortified village Il viii
be their function 10 determine wheth-
er an iRtrenched position has been
technically captured and whether
this regiment or that brigade has
been Cconstructively) wiped out
From their decision there will be no
appeal.
In the course Of the operations an
entire division win be marched out
and deployed for battle. An attack in
force will be made upon an outpost.
after preliminary skirmishing and re
eonnoissance. and the blue and brown
armies will hnaIly come into coils
ion. The forces being pretty evenly
matched the losses on both sides may
be expected 10 be large. though the
wounded win not require hospital
treatment and the dead viii. happily,
come TO life after the fray.
One OF the most important objects
OF the maneuvers is to afford 70 OF.
hcers Of the several armies an op-
portunity for observing the evoluuons
and capabilities OF the other arms.
Thus the cavalrymen win see what
the Infantry and artillery are doing
and the artillery will get a more def
mite notion OF the sort OF cooperation
which may be expected from the in
fantry and cavalry The value OF
this is obvious. OF course, the en-
gineers viii have their own important
part 10 play in the operations. con.
stTucting pOnto0n bridges and throw {
ing mp earlhworks while the signal
corps. with telegraphs. telephones and
q balloon, viii attend 20 the business
Of conveying intelligence.
The regular troops engaged In the I
maneuvers. and the most Of which
are nov on the field. come from Forts
Leavenworth and Riley. Kansas; SIN
and Reno, Oklahoma; Niob1ara and
Robinson. Nebraska. Logan. Colora.
DO; d. A. Russell wyoming; Douglas.
Utah; Smelling, Minnesota: Lincoln.
North Dakota Myer. Virginia.
Keough. Montana, ana JeHerson Bar.
racks Missouri
Besides the regular troops hsrs
uin b. an army q national guard
present as follows; Kansas. one bri
gade. consisting of two regiments a.