Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-05-16
WANT REGULARS in
IOWA MANEUVERS
ADJuTANT GENERAL THRIFT is
PROMISED FEDERAL TROOPS
FOR ANNUAL EVENT
OFFICER TO UMPIRE
Military Exercises This Year Will be
on Greater Scale Than Ever Be-
fore Attempted by the State Nation
al Guard-sham Battle to be Fought

/ al Guard-Sham Battle to be Fought
Regular Troops in Iowa Maneuvers.
Four infantry regiments.
! Four troops of calvary.
Two field batteries.
! Two machine gun platoons.
One signal corps company.
Fifteen regular army officers as UNI
pires.
Major Boughton is an Iowa man
Ing the plans for the war department
OF the United States government for
the maneuvers Of the regular army, In.
Guiding the problems in strategy and
the science Of warfare, has been as
signed to act as chief umpire Of the
maneuvers Of the Iowa National Guard
In this state In August.
Major Broughton is an Iowa man
| and 1t was observed by General Thrift,
while In Leavenwortn, that four of the
officers who are instructing in the war
college there are from Iowa. The col.
| lege Is educating officers Of the army
who show special talent for military
science. Major Boughton holds the
chair Of military strategy and tactics.
| and the fact that he has been selected
to furnish the problems for all of the
regular army maneuvers is reflection
of credit on Iowa. He originated In
Worth county
Fourteen other regular army officers
will assist Major Boughton. He has
been given the right to select them.
| and the list will soon go to the war
| orty Ont q
the service OF a competent body of
officers to instruct and judge the Iowa
guardsmen at what IL Is now believed
a military character In the United
States In 1907.
Adjutant General Thrift mas recently
returned from Fort Leavenworth,
bringing with him the assurance of
the cooperation of the military de-
partment there. He was in confer
ence last Thursday and Friday with
the officers of the war college there and
the plan for the maneuvers of the
Iowa guard were approved, together
with the plan for the participation of
the regular army officers and military
forces.
Will Detail Fifteen Officers.
General Hall assured General Thrift
at Fort Leavenworth that he would ap-
prove the. detail of fifteen army Off
GERS from the war college to act as
umpires. and the plan for participation
Of the United States troops from Fort
Leavenworth with the Iowa guard
This includes detail of one field bat
terry and one machine gun platoon,
and the Company A signal corps from
Fort Leayenworth He suggested to
General Thrift that an additional field
battery may be secured from Fort
Smelling or from Fort Sheridan, with
an additional machine gun platoon. II
these details can be secured as plan
ned by General Hall and General
Thrift, the force engaged in the man
euvers at Des Moines in August will
include the organizations listed at the
beginning of this column The cooper
| alton of the army post officers at Fort
Des Moines Is also assured.
| Army officers, including General Hall
declared that this force provides suf-
ficent army to solve any problem which
can arise In military maneuvers.
| Will Prepare Problems.
Major Boughton will draft the prob
lens to be worked out in the Iowa
maneuvers. The problems will be
placed in the hands of the commando
ing officers of the two provisional bri-
gades, prior to engagement of their
troops in the effort to solve them.
Two days will be devoted to prelim-
grounds. The armies will take up
\ II, Is
nent of the greater problem, which
will be undertaken the fourth and
fifth days of the program. The armies
will fight for possession Of the Corydon
bridge two miles south of the Polk
City. One army will be located near
Slater and the other six miles north Of
/ Des Moines and west Of the Des
Moines river, during the two days of
the preliminary work.
The grounds will be easily accessible
to the people. The Granger interurban
cars will pass within a short distance
of them and the roads are fine for
autos and carriages.
General Thrift said that the maneuv.
ers, which he regards as promising
the most important program OF the
kind anywhere in the country this
year, will take the time August to
IL inclusive. On Saturday, Aug. 10,
the entire army will pass through Des
Moines from the north to camp
| grounds on the south accessible to the
| car lines.
Monday morning, Aug. IL, the whole
force will be reviewed by the governor
and his staff and that evening the sol.
diers will embark for their ZONES.
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