The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1903-10-17
Uncle :Sam's Troops to
Engage in Some Very
"Fierce" Battles
MANY SOLDIERS ARE THERE
Army Reservation = be 8 Nne of the
Greatest Military Ma RS Ever
Held-Area Will pe 225
Square Miles.

Fort Riley, Kas., Oct. 16.-Begin
ming today and continuing until Oc-
tober 27 the army reservation here
is to be the scene of the greatest
military maneuvers ever conducted
in the United States. The success of
the maneuvres held here last fall in
spired the war department to lay the
plans this year on a much larger scale.
The movements of the troops will ex-
tend over an area of 225 square miles,
instead of being limited to nineteen
square miles, as they were a year
ago, and the number of troops has
been doubled.
The game will be largely one of
strategy All the arms of the SER
vice will take part in it. The artil
lery will be represented by nine light
batteries-the largest and strongest
fore of field artillery that has been
brought together in this country
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liam H. Coffin in command. There
will be brigade of cavalry, under
Gen. c. G. c. Carr, and brigades of
infantry commanded by Brigadier
Generals Fred D. Grant j. Franklin
Bell and Thomas H. Berry, In COM
mand of all the operations is Major
General John c. Bates.
say picturesqe, features OF the war
game win be an attack upon con-
voy of food supplies. A supply train,
composed as it is OF a string of load
ed wagons miles in length, is obvious
Iy vulnerable to assault and CORES
pondingly difficult to defend. The
problem is to fetch it through, in or
der that the victuals in question may
not go to recruit the larder of the
foe.
When a railway runs through
scene Of military operations, as in this
neighborhood. the control OF it often
determines the success of any army.
Hence the Importance of SECURING
the ma9tership OF traffic over the I'm
ion .s1acific road. Whichever force,
the blue or the brown, obtains theo-
retically speaking, the advantage will
be in position to cry mate" to its
adversary.
Questions OF this sort will be de-
termined by OFFICERS of high rank ap-
pointed by the war department. They
will decide which wins, the blue army
or the brown army, when an attack
is made upon a fortified village. 1t
will be their function to de-
whether an intrenchment position has
been (technicallV captured and
whether this regiment or that bri-
gade has been (constructively) wip-
ed out. From their decision there
will be no appeal.
entire division will be marched Out
and deployed for battle. An at.ack
in force will be made upon All tgt-
post, after preliminary skirLIzS ing
and reconnaissance, and the blue and
brown armies will finally come into
collision. The forces being pretty
evenly matched; the losses on both
sides may be expected to be large,
though the wounded will not require
hospital treatment, and the dead will,
happily, come to life again after the
fray.
One of the most important objects
of the maneuvers is to afford to Oh
ficers Of the several arms an oppor-
| tunity for observing the evolutions
and capabilities OF the other arm.
Thus the cavalrymen will see what
the infantry and artillery are doing
and the artillery will get a more def
mite notion OF the sort of cooperation
| whiph may be expected from the in
fantry and cavalry. The value OF
this is obvious. OF course, the engin'
GERS will have their own important
part to play in the operations, con
structing pontoon bridges and throw
ing up earthworks, while the signal
corps, with telegraphs, telephones ant
a balloon, will attend to the business
Of conveying intelligence.