New-York tribune., 1910-07-21
TO INSURE CLEAN MILK ARMY AND NAVY NOTES
Mock Battle at Hampton Roads
to Last Twenty Minutes.
From The Tribune BurearJ
Washington. Jul

FIRING TEST ON LARGE SCALE
Some time tomorrow a feet Of targets.
representing a hostile squadron sailing to
attack Washington, will be towed INTO
Hampton Roads. Five shore batteries OF
coast artillery. mounted with 10 and IL inch
guns, will attempt TO demolish it.
officers of the coast artillery declare II
will be a firing test conducted on a larger
scale than has ever been attempted IN
shore practice anywhere. Thirty oihcers
about 70 be graduated from the coast artli-
Iery school at Fort Monroe will conduct
the defence of the st.ore batteries, and the
imaginary feet will be composed Of tar
gets sixty feet long and thirty feet ~hlSh'
each target representing a section OF
battleship The fleet will be towed along
the road about four miles off shore
Major General Wood. chief of staff of the
army: Brigadier General Tasker H Bliss
and Colonel Charles j. Bailey, acting chle1
of the Coast artillery, will view the test
The hour OF the firing is necessarily IN
definite. There is no control OF the snip
ping IN the bay, and the tests cannot be
made until the ROADS are clear. The firing
is not expected 10 continue for more than
twenty minutes. All five batteries will con-
centrate their shells on a set of targets
which will be selected at that moment by
the commanding officer. The purpose is TO
make certain number Of hits in the small
est number of shots The score may be
made public after the test
LFrorn The Tribune Bureaul
Washington, July 20-The following
orders have been issued:
Major MERIwETHER L WALKER, corps OF
engineers, detailed inspector OF 16th Lignt-
house District from August /
Major JOHN c. CAKES, corps OF engineers. ae-
tailed inspector of 14th Lighthouse District
Major CHARLES KELLER. corps Of engineers, 4eis
detailed inspector Of 18th Lighthouse DIS
Captain PERcY I, JONES. medical corps, TO
csutsP sG6f RnAIdERp p 4 EfSSe NEwBILL. Sd Field
Artillery. assigned 70 Battery D, vice . CaI.
bn aiit teiegrsph TO commanding oficer, Sd Field
Artillery. for assignment 70 a natter51
First Lieutenant THOMAS 3: EsLt' 4el1N 4tIa
DELANCEY 10th Infantry. of charge OF
camp telephone and telegraph system III a.
camp Of instruction. Fort Benjamin Harri-
First Lieutenant ARTHUR E AHRENNDs. 2a5h
Infantry. detailed professor OF military SCI
ence at Rutgers College. New Brunswick.
\ j, from September 10 ylce Cap'fil. - III.
regiment.
Captains G BURR j 2 GRAvEsNiir sfirPI !, ~ !
and J. HOOD. Lieutenant Commander " B
TARDY. Lieutenant r. c. SMITH. Leu
tenants (tunior grade) W. L. FFIEDELL'
y. H GOSS and Z s ROBINSON. COM
n1issianed-
Midshipman c. E BATTLE. Jr.. detached Naval
Academy: 70 the North Carolina
Midshfpnaan 4. A FLANAGAN detached Navai
Academy: TO the Connecticut
MOVEMENTS OF wARsHIPs.-The fol-
lowing movements of vessels have been re-
ported TO the Navy Department:
ARRIVED
July 1a-The Iowa, the Indiana and the Aassa-
chusetts ar Gibraltar; the MacDonouSh ana
the Stringham, at Lynnhaven Bay; the
Bailey at Norfolk; the MayfoveT. az East
port Me: the South Dakota, a. san Fran
cisco; the south Carolina, at Southern drIH
grounds, the Potomac at Norfolk the Not-
VERNE at Manftowoc. Wns
July 1s-The LAonidas, from Charleston for
Lambert Point; the Tacoma, from BiusHelos
for Cane Gracios-a-Dios.
July 1e-The Rocket. from Washington roT
Indian Head and Norfolk; the South caro-
lima from Hampton Roads for Southern
drill grounds
July 2O-The New York. from Colombo fer Pc
nang: the Wheeling and the Petrol, TON
Yokohama for Hong Kong
The Dixie. the Severn and third submarine
division from Provincetown 10 New London
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