New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-18
REDS MAKE ADVANCE
ARMIES HEADQUARTERS
NOT FAR REMOVED.
Less than T1celue Miles apart
Fortunes of the Day zcith
the Reds.
IBy Telegraph 70 The Tribune.


of 1909. the army of the Blue tonight seeks TO
repair it's broken lines and TO devise some meas
ure of military strategy that will keep the invad
er from placing his alien foot beneath the dome
of Beacon Hill. where the sacred Goldfish sways
IN scared expectancy of capture To-day fortune
and war were with the Reds
At the close Of to-days land manoeuvres the
Army OF the Red. under Brigadier General Tas-
ker II. Bliss. had made a material advance. and
unless General Pew. of the defenders. can con-
centrate his troops tomorrow morning to meet
the attack OF troops which General Bliss has
massed heavily on the Blues left. General Pew
faces defeat. The two headquarters tonight are
within less than dozen miles OF each other.
General Pews quarters are still at Robins Pond.
within six miles of Bridgewater. while General
Bliss has made material advance from Rock.
point eight miles southeast of MiddAboro.
where his headquarters were last night, to Eddy
vile, In East Middleboro. at the source of the
WInnetuxet River. which is some eight miles
northeast OF Middleboro.
From the general direction of the movements
OF General Bliss and his army and the strength
Of his command the plan which he intends to
follow TO capture Boston Is apparently revealed
for the first time This is to annihilate General
Pews extreme left and to pass that end with a
comparatively clear road to Boston Except for
the fact that the hour of O'Clock. when both
armies cease operations Tor the day, arrived a.
tribe too soon. the plan would have been emil
nently successful today. AS IL is. unless General
Pew support his second brigade OF infantry,
comprising the 5th. Sth and 9Th regiments and
Battery B, under command OF Colonel William
III Donovan. which is the Blues left wing. by all
his cavalry and artillery. which tonight are in
the centre, some SIX miles away from the scene.
and thereby hold the roads tomorrow morning
until his first brigade can be rushed from the
right he risks defeat.
FACE PRACTICALLY WHOLE ARMY
Over at the extreme left of the Bfue line the
three regiments named are facing practically the
entire Red army. General Bliss's southwark
movement to-day was OF determination.
a settled plan. with which every organization
was apparently familiar. In addition IL was
cIeanly executed and strategic and gave evidence
that the Red scouts had fully posted General
Bliss on the position OF the Blues. In the Reds
advance there never was sign Of hesitation
when the Blues outposts We're encountered and
the latter were either captured or driven in IN
short order.
Colonel Daniel Appleton. with strategy that
Grant would have envted and Theoretically Napo-
leon would not have scorned. met the enemy. and
they were his Once the gray streaks Of dawn
announced that day had arrived the camp Of the
Reds was alive with the preparations for the
annihilation of the defenders. Truculent, SOL
diars svvore that ere another had set the
streets of this drowsy village would be soaked
with theoretical blood and that the roster OF the
regiments opposing the victorious march OF the
Reds would be decimated with the list of the
oretIcally dead.
Nor was this an idle boast. Down from the
east there came peIting. driving rain. regu-
lar Massachusetts product that turned the
streets into rivers the roadbed into a wide RIB
into
ceased 20 be Shermanesque. but was only
more
Along about 3 o'clock. as the rumbling milk
wagon jumped along the road, the bugle bared
its warning and the silent streets were awak-
ened by III tramp of marching soldiery- Coi-
oneI Appleton had figured that once his troops
gained the green at Eddyville. several mileo
away they would stand like the embattled
farmers of history and FIRE the shot that would
be heard theoretically around the world. He
reckoned with success. Down through the
streets of MIddleboro town. with the rain streak
ing their khaki and their faces whipped by it's
slashing speed. the soldier boys marched.
NOTHING COULD STOP ONSLAUGHT.
Grouped near the green were the gallant
members of the Sth Regiment. that has sus-
tanned more fighting and received more theo-
retical whippings than any body of the Blues
Once the Red caught sight Of the opposing
forces the bugles sang the song OF blood and
the tang of the Massachusetts, weather sent the
lads from New York and the District of Co
lunbia hurting themselves upon the Massachu-
setts khakied citizens with ferocity and frenzy.
The boys of the Bay State fought gamely. but
nothing could stop the onslaught. Back. step
by step. went the sth. with Colonel Leroy
Sweetzer trying round his men into battle
formation and give dying. smashing blow
TO the Red
In the attacking force the 7th. 22d and
14th New York. with the District OF Columbia
regiments. together with an imposing array of
artillery. These troops. scattered into lighting
line mile long. made a desperate charge. and
pierced the Blue lines mustered back OF the
green II was the first real test of warfare for
both Sides and the battle ragged with all the
theoretical ferceness of the simulated article
Colonel Sweetzers men battled as best they
could. but the "thin Blue line could not with
stand the raking fire of the artillery that was
poured into a leaden hail of grape and canister
and tore through the legions of the defence.
The battle lasted for several hours. and that
the Sth was not annihilated theoretically
due largely TO the admirable positions which the
troops took when the raking fire first drove them
10 retreat II was in great Cedar swamp that
the Blues battalions took refuge. and ensconsed
here in the heavy foliage and woods. We're able
TO pour their fire into the advancing invaders.
Rut strength of numbers was bound to tell.
and back two miles fell Colonel Sweetzer's soil
diers. only to take up position outside OF Easa
MiddIeboro where tonight the soaked and
drenched soldiers trying 10 recoup their
losses and make the last desperate stand to-
morrow RI renforcements do not arrive before
dawn Word was sent TO General Pew of the
harassing that his mers received. and II is pos-
sible that he viii throw b', entire First Brigade
in here tomorrow 10 drive back Major General