Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-15

scout the country signal corps men
following them with telephone lines ~
fast as the scouts gallopped to their
posts, Keeping the commander furnish
ed with complete information as 10 the
outlook every minute. The main body
was ais, followed along the Laramie
road Ny signal corps men with tele-
phones So well concealed We're the
Blue forces that the march was con
tinucd without incident until the main
body OF the Browns had advanced to
within two miles Of Tie city pass,
which was 20 be seized by them. No
word Of the location OF the enemy hav-
ing beeA received by the Brown COM
mandet. his forces forged ahead They
were almost concentrated I'm II solid
body on the main road on the brow ct
a hin Lelow the hills which fanked the
pass Then out belched the thunder
of the Utah battery. \ correspondent
of Denver paper who was with Capt.
Webb In the tops of that hill, wrote
back from the scene Of the action:
HOW THE MEN FOUGHT.
THE Mo,mons fired their guns upon
the advancing hosts Of the Brown
army II was n surprise complete.
Shell ana Shrapnel lained down upon
the Brown soldiers and swept then
down like straw before a wind Then
charged the cavalry and infantry,
scouped The Brown soldiers up, put
them IN buckets and carried them off
tho field of battle. The Mormon gun
ners hal done a good days work They
had hello their post and the regular
army soldiers were Put out Of business
by a handful of saints from Utah
perched high in n mountain and d.
rected by william G. Webb. gallant
captain of the Mormons. who Won mis-
first spurs In the Philippines as com
mander of the gunboat that sent ma
tives to cover in bamboo forests"
1t was almost as the Denver man
said. The contact Of the two armies
was Just such fight as might have
happened In any war where COM
handing defle blocked the advance ot
an army. It was a difficult problem
of assault and not an easy one of de-
tense
RECRUITS LEARN WAR,
Before the action commenced troops
of cavalry were sent off to the right
or left closely followed by infantry
engineers, signal corps and hospital
corps attachments. Recruits in the
regula" and militia ranks would ask:
where are they going?" There
would be an old regular SER
geant near at hand and he would
explain that they We're scouts or
advance guards and then he would go
into detailed description of the tact
zeal theory involved. The recruit.
when he learned of this, was no longer
a recruit. He was learning of war
quickly. There might come a halt and
a question would come again. The old
regular would say that no word had
been received from scouts, and the
ground ahead was dangerous and that
the commander wanted TO know ii 1t
safe tn the nlpin He WAS
still learning the cautionary tactics of
q campaigner, Then the commander
would be summoned to a telephone
near the ground in a sheltered nook.
and soon an advance would be order
ed The recruit knew then that word
had been received further from the
front that the path was clear All the
time he wac learning of war, for a
battle was on and only bullets and the
shocking death lists were lacking to
make the picture complete.
A BID FOR PEACE.
The recruits in the regular army
and the militiamen learned much dur
ing the camp. They secured training
that volunteer armies raised Just in the
time of trouble can learn in the short
training they receive before entering
the field. 1t Is training in time of
peace to make strong, though small,
standing army, and to provide for 1t a
big, strong and well trained reserve
force. To gather strong army,
standing and reserve, IL the policy be-
ing pursued to guarantee a lasting
peace. 1t is to make the nation for
midable and by its strength to court
the settlement of difficulty by arbitra-
ton rather than by armed conflict.
Soldiers who have seen war know of
all its horrors and they dread IL. They
do not want to see it again, and they
are doing all in their power to make
the army and its reserves too strong
to be in danger of more wars.
EDUCATE OFFICERS.
Army officers for centuries have
relied upon mounted orderlies in the
transmission of intelligence concern
ing the enemN and for the transmits