Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-19
ARMIES READY
FOR SKIRMISH
IN MOCK WAR
Military Headquarters Moves
to Schofieid Today for
Week
MONDAY EXPECTED
TO BE PEACEFUL
Red and Blue Forces Begin
Actual Hostilities on
tuesday

By'next Monday morning peaceful
Oahu will be peaceful no longer. A
state of war will exist between the
Reds and the Blues, the former the
Northern, and presumably the invad-
ing force, and the latter the gallant
defenders Of hearth, home and taro
patch. 1t will be as much like real
war as can be the case without ac-
tual bullets, and so far as the troops
are concerned they might as we'll be
really on the move against hostile
force. H..
It Is no easy matter to divide the
mobile army into two nearly equal
parts, and send them into the field
against each other for weeks cam
paign. To do this has required as
much paper work and quiet as many
issued orders as to send four times
the number. There have been literally
hundreds of "details to be worked out,
and, as islalways the case, the work
piled up at the last moment SO that
General Macomb, director OF Ihaneu-
vers and chief umpire, Lieutenant
Colonel Campbell, adjutant general,
and fifteen unipires who have been
attached 70 department headquarters
for the last week have been on the
JUMP early and late.
Today the strategical experts move
en- RsAsse to- CASHIER. on the Scho.l
field Barracks reservation, and the
war win be run from there from
what will be known as the central
station. General Macomb and his de-
partmental and personal staff will
remain at Heilehua most of the time,
and the commanders and umpires on
both sides will come in for frequent
conferences, and the discussion OF
the problems as they are worked out.
From the spectators standpoint
there will be little or nothing to see
on Monday, the first day of the. cam
paign,E owinl, to the fact that the
two forces will be engaged in getting
away from each other, both starting
from Schofield. Tuesday, however,
the situation is bound to develop, al
though just how or where the troops
will come together is known only to
the officers who have laid out the
plan of campaign, and who are to de-
eide the ticklish question of defeats
and victories. r
The central station officers will all
wear yellow arm badges with the ex-
ception of Mai Robert Noble, infan-
try, who, acting as assistant to the
chief umpire, will wear a white hat
band. The otherrofficers at centra are
Maj. B. F. Cheatham, quartermaster
corps. chief quartermaster; Capt. C. A |
Clark, c. A. c., signal officer; Second
Lieutenant Andrews, Eighth Cavalry,
aide; Maj. w. P. Wooten, Corps of
assistant to chief umpire;
Capt. w. T. Hannum, Corps of En-
gineers; Fret Lieut.. George Turner,
C. A. c., special aides to chief um-
pire; First Lieutenant Besson, Corps
Of Engineers, and Second Lieutenant
Hoffman, Second Infantry motorcycle !
aides, all 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.
Mcclure, Fifth Cavalry, senior cavat |
~ umpire; Capt. NJ. F. Smith. Twen- |
tieth Infantry. infantry umpire; Capt. |
J. S. Johnson, C. A. c., field artillery |
umpire; Capt. A. M. Shipp. Twen- |
tieth Infantry, infantry umpire; Capt. |
Douglas McCaskey, Cavalry, cavalry |
umpire.
Umpires with Red Detachment, who
will wear white hat bands, are Maj. |
]. A. Penn, First Infantry, senior um-
pire;. Capt. H. J. Bress, Cavalry, cav
airy umpire; Capt w. B. Burtt, Twen-
tieth Infantry, infantry umpire; Capt |
w. H. johnson, Twenty-fifth Infantry |
infantry umpire; Capt. ]. H. Bryson,
First Field Artillery, senior field ar
tillery umpire; First Lieut.. Maxwell |
c. A c., field artillery um-
nire