Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-17
BLISS SWOOPS DOWN
. ON "EnEMY'S" FLANK
District Troops in Forefront
of the Battle Line.
FIERCE CONTEST is WAGED
Battle of Eddyville" Is Victory
for the Invaders.
TWO BATTALIONS CAPTURED
Pew's Army of Defense Is Greatly
Weakened-"on to Boston" Il
FIERCE CONTEST IS WAGED
TWO BATTALI0Ns CAPTURED
Pew's Army of Defense Is Greatly
Weakened-"on to Boston" Il
Cry Of the Reds.
Special From Staff Correspondent

| Special From a Staff Correspondent
MIDDLEBORO. Mass. Au-
gust 1.-THE District Of Colum-
bla troops broke camp at 5
O'Clock this morning and joined
at once in the general movement
OF the Red army against the Blue
flank.
The enemy was sighted at
1890 am. and a few minutes
later the battle began at East
Middleboro.
The District boys went at the
Massachusetts troops in a driving
rain. Gen. Harries brigade forms
the right wing of the Red army,
commanded by Gen. Bliss, and
this morning bore All important
part in the fighting. and helped
to drive back the defenders and
take possession of Eddyville and
Middleboro.
Casualties" on the part of the
District brigade were slight.
Victory for Bliss.
Special Dispatch to The Star
| ON THE BATTLEFIELD, on the side
of the Army of the Red, by courier to
New Bedford. Mass, August 1.-THE rat
tie of musketry and the deeper booming
of big guns echoed and re-echoed all
morning through the hills between Eddy
vile and Middo Green, while the right
flank Of Gen. Bliss ran down and cap
tured the outpost reserves of the Blues
at Middo Green.
| His main army, supported by artillery.
fought fierce battle for the possession
of Eddyville.
Gen. Bliss has taken a position for the
night at Eddyville having driven out
the Blue army and captured the regi-
mental headquarters and two battalions
/ of the Sth Massachusetts Infantry.
| The dandy eth Infantry from New
York and the 10th Cavalry led the at
tacking Reds.
Gen. Pew was greatly weakened by the
fact that his artillery reserve was so far
away that it could not be brought into
action tomorrow
| Gen. Bliss is in a position to clinch his
victory of today by general assault on
Pew's left. Pews right is now badly cut
up and Gen. Bliss has turned his flank on
the right
Bliss Begins Movement.
| Specol Dispatch tn The Star.
| MIDDLEBORO, Mass, August lin
two long columns. heading for the center
and the right flank of Gen. Pew's defend
! ing army. Gen. Bliss this morning moved
west and north from South Middleboro.
| His move has every appearance of being
| a move to slice off Pew's right flank in a
combined artillery and infantry assault.
Scouting parties of the Reds encountered
the Blues in West Middleboro, as they ad-
| vanced, and captured sixteen. A Red
| lieutenant, who had been captured by TWO
Blues, was rescued by sixty bicycle men
after firing two shots, which hypothetical
| ly killed the Blue captors.
! The marching and fighting is done in a
sousing rain that has beaten down stead
| lily since midnight.
Repulse Attack on Forts.
! BOSTON. August 17.-An attack on the
fortifications Of Boston harbor by the
Red army of invasion was gallantIy and
| successfully repulsed today by the Blue
| army of defense, the attacking force be-
| ing totally annihlated in the opinion OF
Umpire Hatton.
The attacking force consisted of about
200 men, composed OF troops from Forts
| Totten and Hamilton The defenders
suffered a loss of only eighteen men out
| of a force of 10.
| The engagement occurred at Nahant.
| not far from the residence of United
States Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. and
| followed an attack by the invaders upon
the secondary station at Nahant.
| The troops were landed about 1 o'clock
| this morning.
Taft Spies Troops.
BEVERLY, Mass. August 17.-Four
large army transports loaded with the
troops and having hostile intention against
the harbor defenses of Boston was the
sight that met the eye of President Taft
when he awke at the summer White
House this morning and gazed across
Salem bay The transports were anchored
about a mile of shore.
The President evidently felt no uneasi
ness regarding his personal safety, be-
Iieving that the Boston fortifications and
not the nations executive were the OBJ
jectiye Of the transports.
BLISS, BY CLEVER RUSE,
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