The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-07

tains Many Visitors
 Much Activity In Prepar-
 ing for Big War Game.
 With the beginning of the mimic warfare in Connecticut only a few days off, activities at the Paradise Green camp where the chief unpires will be quartered, are very brisk. All day long visitors are coming and go- ing to the camp and the scene is en- Hvened now and then by the arrival of troopers and military attaches.
 Saturday will see the beginning of the war game which will be- played out on the scale of what the army off hcers know as the major military tactics" hoping to demonstrate Wheth- CT New York can be captured or not. by an imaginary enemy landing On the Massachusetts coast.
 The war will wage with due fierce ness until the end of the coming week, Already the Red Army of Invasion has landed at New Bedford, Mass, ad- vanced on Boston and defeated the Blue Army which is in retreat to Al- bany by way of Worcester and Spring field, Mass. Red Army has occu- pied Providence, R. l.. and is moving unopposed westward, leaving small garrieons in the principal cities on the way. The main Red Army is pushing on to New Haven, driving the defend- ing troops before it.
 The manoeuvres will be divided into two periods. the first to be known as the insrucfional and the second as the meet for the ackiial battles. Over 20.- eg8 troops will take part .50o stH FEfenl regitlats made up of the Tenth Cav- airy, Fifth Infantry, the Second BAt- talion of the Third Field Artillery, Company B. First Ba ttaaion Engi1i- eens. Company A, Signal Corps and a section of the aviation service. The remainder of the troops are the Ma tional Guards from New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maine and Con- .necticut
 The Blue Army of defence will be under the command of General Ed ward J. McClernand, of the Pacific Division. and the invading Army of Reds under General Frederick A. Smith, of the Central Army division. Brig.-Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, command CT of the Department of the East, will be official umpire assisted By a stan of one hundred officers drawn from all branches of the regular service with headquarters at Paradise Green in Stratford.
 Outside the first days movements nothing is known of the details of the work the following days except by the commanding officers The first days movements will. be simply con- centration of forces on both sides and will take but a few hours and will bring the troops into the sphere of op- erations After that they will be moved from one point to another on the chess board following the plans already laid out All the concentra- tion points are not yet known, but in- fantry will be scattered in camps from New Haven to the NeW York state inc at Poughkeepsie. :. Cavalry will be centered at Bridgeport and Milford and New Taven and the artillery will be stationed in the vicinity of Dan bury. The latter will not come into action until the 14th probably.
 It is expected that by the night of the tenth the lines of the two armies will have been established. The lines of the two armies will at that stage be about 25 miles long and an early theoretical engagement is expected. :
 At the camp in Strait it was an- nounced today that Brig.-Gen. Bliss and other officers who are to be sta- toned at the umpire camps, are ex- pected to arrive tomorrow night or some time Friday. Gen. Bliss will come by yacht with others and it is 6XDGCt6Q that n6 VIII lOCdC0 HIS DOdt at the Bridgeport Yacht club. His tent quarters at the camp have been prepared as have the other officers tents.
 Captain Wilbur Willing of Co B., U. S. Engineers Corps, who is- in conn., mand of the camp at Paradise Green, which is designated as the chief um- to confer with Col. Black, chief of the Engineers, and Major Hann, assistant to the judge advocate general, relative to the nfanoeuvres.
 Material and equipment for the camp of Gov Dix of New York, who will be one of the officers at the chief umpire's camp, arrived today and inn mediate, preparations were made for his camp There are something like 75 officers in the umpire's outfit In addition to these who are provided for in a long row of brand new tents. which were set up yesterday, there will be about that same number of militia officers to observe the man. oeuvres. They will be quartered in tents in the rear of the officers tents, which were being put up today.
 E A large automobile garage is being built to keep the machines used for messenger service. This was nearly completed today.
 Troops passed through Bridgeport today. Two batteries of field artillery plodded along State street about 6:55 o'clock this morning and the batter, batter of the horses hoofs awakened many of the people on that street who were glad of the opportunity to see the soldiers These soldiers have been on hike from Virginia. They have been making between F and 25 miles each day and left Southport about o'clock this morning, headed for Milford The batteries are in com mand of Major c. P Summerall. Bat tery F has Captain F. H. Gallup. in command, and Battery D is commando ed by Captain w. D. Newbil The sol diers looked in good trim and as they swung into Main street and proceeded down Fairfield avenue to Stratford avenue, thence on to Milford, they at