The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-10-22
REDS AND BLUES
IN GUISE OF
ENEMIES
All Ready for Great Maneuvers
by Armies Over Island
of Oahu.
UMPIRES OFFICIALLY NAMED
Central Headquarters viii Be
Established Today at
leilehua.

With the establishment of field head
quarters at Cashier, near Schofeld
! Barracks, today, Brigadier.G General Ma
comb, commanding the Department of
Hawaii, prepares the way for the COM
mencement of the army maneuvers
which will be held all next week. The
general and other officers will motor to
Leilehua this afternoon and take up
headquarters at "Central'' station,
which will be in charge of Lieut.-Col.
Archibald Campbell, acknowledgement.
Many of the officials for the maneuvers
will go out on the morning train.
On Monday morning, possibly at day
| light, the division of the troops will
have been effected into Red and Blue
armies, the former to be known as the
| Northern, to be commanded by Colonel
! McGunnegle, commandant of Schofield
Barracks, and the latter, to be known
as the Southern Army, to be command
ed by Colonel Wilder, Fifth Cavalry.
| The Northern Army Will play the role
OF invaders and the Blues the defend
| ers.
Brigadier.G eneral Macomb will be
the director and chief umpire and vii
wear a white hat band. Mai George
McManus, spector-general, the divis-
ion inspector, Will wear a yellow arm
badge.
The central station officers will all
wear yellow arm badges with the ex-
ception of Maj. Robert Noble, infan-
| try, who, acting as assistant to the
chief umpire, will wear a white hat
band The other officers at central are
Maj. B. +. Cheatham, quartermaster
corps, chief quartermaster; Capt. C. A.
Clark, G. A. c., signal oflicer Second
Lieutenant Andrews, Eighth Cavalry,
aide; Mai. w. p. Wooten, Corps of En-
gineers, assistant to chief umpire; Capt.
w. L. Hannum, Corps of Engineers;
First Lieut.. George Turner, c. A. c.,
special aides to chief umpire; First
Lieutenant Besson, Corps of Engineers,
and Second Lieutenant Hoffman, Sec
ond Infantry, motorcycle aides, ali
wearing white hat bands.
Umpires for All Arms
Umpires detailed with the Blue de-
tachment are Maj. George Blakeley,
c. A. c., senior umpire; Maj. N. f. Nc.
Clure, Fifth Cavalry, senior cavalry
umpire; Capt. NJ. F. Smith, Twentieth
Infantry, infantry umpire; Capt. J. S.
Johnston, c. A. c., fed artillery UNI
pire; Capt. A. M. Ship, Twentieth In
fantry, infantry umpire; Capt. Douglas
McCaskey, Cavalry, cavalry umpire.
Umplres with Red Detachment, who
will wear white hat bands, are Mai. J.
A. Penn, First Infantry, senior UNI
pire; Capt. II. j. Brees, Cavalry, cav
airy umpire; Capt. w. B. Burt, Twen-
tleth Infantry, infantry umpire; Capt
w. II. Johnson, Twenty fifth Infantry,
infantry umpire; Capt. J. II. Bryson,
FIRST Field Artillery, senior field artii-
lery umpire; First Lieut.. Maxwell Muir
ray, G. A. c., field artillery umpire.
The progress of the maneuvers will
be reported to the daily papers through
accredited representatives, A. P. Tay-
lor representing The Advertiser and
Laurence Redington the Star.Bulletln.
Coast Artillery Out.
The number of men engaged in the
maneuvers has not been announced
but they will include the Fifth Cavalry,
First Field Artillery, First and Second
Infantry, with few men detailed,
possibly, from the engineers. The Coast
Artillery are not to take part.
The troops will move off to their re-
spective stations ON Monday, and pos
sibly by Wednesday the full import of
the field work will be apparent, when
the opposing detachments begin 10
close in.
The paper work so far done for the
maneuvers represents the labor of a
number of army officers who have been
especially designated to prepare he
plans, and the most careful attention
has been given to details. The arrival
of number of officers from the nain-
land to act as umpires and observers
indicates the military Importance OF
the coming "war game.