Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-25
RED ARMY
tcontinusd from Pae. I,

Continued from Pace u
The pursuit of the Blues from Soho
field Barracks to Pearl City was one
CO the hardest actual tests to which
troops are ever put in mimic war
! fare. To march more than 40 miles in
the hot sun, fighting most of the way,
and therefore covering far more
ground than appears on the road map.
is no easy task, and the wonder is
/ that the Red troops stood the gaff so
Well. The number that fell out on &C
count of exhaustion and sore feet was
les thasn the usual proportion &C
coIding to the medical officers. ~
csVaIry Does Fighting.
Today's fighting was almost entire
/ ly up to the cavalry, which had the
lions share of the contact. On the
Blue side only Cavalry was in touch
With the enemy, but the Red advance
guard, under Major Frazer, had a,
chance to get into the action at the
time when they were badly needed,
and it is largely due to the good work
of this battalion and its machine gun
platoon that the Blues were driven
out of Kepaua Gulch in such short
order.
Today's fighting was purely a rear
guard action, and the Blue cavalry
certainly covered the retreat Of tn,
main column and the wagon train in
! splendid style. Also the Blue artil-
lery, from commanding position or
the hill directly north of the central
lcch OF Pearl Harbor played on the
/ Red independent cavalry and advance
| guard in a way that would have done
considerable execution The main Req
Column would have come through
without scratch, however. =
Fence Theoretically Cut.
There is one point which umpires
/ CT. the Blue side could not have take,
into consideration. until notes were
compared between the arbitrator Of
both armies. That is the effect of the
first Blue artillery fire on the cavalry
nnassed on the road just out of the H
papa Gulch on the north side. At The
I first shot Captain Duncan Elliott ask
ed the umpire on the ground for per
i mission to cut the wire fence and lead
his horses a matter Of only a few
4 yards into perfect cover The umpire
Il had no authority to grant this reques
actually, but made note that tn.
horses had been led out of danger
This, of course, the Blue artillery
could not know, and from its point Of
view two entire troops were wiped out
of existence.
/ Later Captain Elliott suffered a
heavy loss when he engaged Blue cav
lalry while mounted at a turn of the
road, and ran into heavy fire. He
was forced to drop out of the game for
la stated interval r. !
Speaking of the work of the cavalry,
the effective patrolling on the Reds
right flank, by a platoon under COM
mand Of Lieutenant Phil Sheridan.
twas specially noted With his small
detachment Sheridan secured the hills
land covered world of ground. ffl
tGidn't have much chance to get into
1the fight, but it was the ground he
lowered, and the thoroughness with
which the Job was done, that was nota.
bic. Take it all in all, Captain Pritch.
'eid's Independent cavalry did a good
days work.
The machine gun platoon of the
Fifth Cavalry, commanded by Lieuten-
Eant Groninger, was also heard from. 1t
was this detachment, together with a
ltioop dismounted, that drove the
Blues back from the Waikakalua
Gulch, the first point at which the
keds met with a check. Fortunately
for the latter, the bridge was not de-
Lstroyed, and once the hail of machine
gun and rife fire dislodged the Blues
the column was able to continue.
In fact, machine guns played big
part in today's action, the machine
guns of the First Infantry, under Lieu
teEant Mitchell, being on the line with
the third battalion which drove the
Elues away from the south side of XII
papa Gulch. :,
Reds Turned Toward Pearl Harbor.
1t was a part of the problem that
turned the Reds toward Pearl Harbor.
instead of allowing them to continue
the pursuit right to Honolulu. When
the point of the Red advance guard
reached the point where the road to
the Peninsula branches off, the senior
Umpire handed Colonel McGunnegle a
nessage, supposed to come from the
commander of the Reds at Nanakuli
saying that the expected reinforce
nents had been delayed, and that he
vas to camp at Pearl City. ! .@
Pearl City may be pleasant place
TO camp with a small command suna
as a squadron or brigade, but force
the size of the Reds has taxed 1t TO
its capacity, and then some The
Snra dron of eavalrv with fha hri1a<fp 1
is camped nearest to the station, with