The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-10-18
All Officers viii Be in Field
During Maneuvers
Next Week.
WATER WILL BE A LUXURY
General Orders Issued Covering
Questions Affecting the
Forces.
lrrom wendnesday Advertiserl

(From "Wednesday Advertiser)
Chaplains of the army will command
the brigade post at Schofield Barracks
and Fort Shafter should necessity arise
under which all regular officers are sent
into the field during maneuvers next
week. Orders which were issued yes
terday morning by Adjutant General
Campbell require the maximum effective
personnel in the field and in order to
permit every officer to be with tho
troops the chaplains will be left behind
as administrative officers in the posts.
Another prominent feature which is
imI ressed in the orders is that the
troops may not expect to have the lux
ury of a bath or a shave for more than
a week, on account of the scarcity OF
water, and commanders are requested
to thoroughly impress their men with
the fact that they must use water spar
ingly and make the supply go as far as
possible.
Every man s back will be utilized as
far as possible in the carrying Of per-
sonal baggage for the lack OF horses
and mules and wagons will permit only
the minimum of baggage being car
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troops are to carry at least two days
rations and additional supplies may be
drawn on the third or fourth days Of
the maneuvers The orders issued yes
terday are as follows:
General Regulations.
In general the " Regulations for Field
Maneuvers, United States Army" 1910,
will govern.
General Instructions for Commanding
Officers.
(a) The maximum effective personnel
in the field is required. To this end the
services of chaplains will be utilized
during the absence of troops in the ad-
ministration of posts. Bandsmen, men
of mounted organizations for whom no
mounts are available and who cannot be
utilized as train guards, sick men able
to do light duty, ETC., will be utilized
to the fullest extent as caretakers and
guards.
(b) Garrison prisoners Will accom-
pany their commands.
(c) Baggage and other impedimenta
will be kept to the lowest limit COM
patible with efficiency.
(d) Commanders will caution their
men and officers to exercise the greatest
care in the prevention of fires; if fires
do occur the nearest troops will be sent
by their immediate commander to ex-
tinguish such fires, report being made
to the nearest umpire, who will make
proper allowance for time lost.
(e) Commanders will impress upon
their men that water is scarce and that
the greatest economy consistent with
necessity is necessary at all times. Each
organization should carry several
buckets and an improvised trough, so
that water from the bitches and fumes
may be utilized. All proper opportun-
titles for watering animals will be taken
advantage of by all concerned, even
to patrol leaders and single scouts.
(f) Troops crossing cultivated lands
off the military reservations will CON
fine themselves to roads and well-de-
fined trails. Gates will be used and
fences will not be cut or destroyed.
EMPIRES will make due allowance for
situations created in the observances of
these rules. Particular care will be
taken that men and animals do not mo-
lest or destroy growing crops, fruit or
vegetables.
(g) Immediate commanders will see
that all damage to private property,
when reparable, is repaired before the
organization causing the damage leaves
the immediate vicinity thereof; when
not reparable a full report of the dam.
age done will be submitted to the force
commander on the day on which il oe-
ours. If necessary a board of officers
to assess damages will be appointed af-
ter the close of the maneuvers.
(h) Troops will leave their respective
stations with rations for at least two
days. Additional forage and rations
may be drawn on either the 3rd or 4th
day of maneuvers at Sehofeld Barracks.
IL On leaving camp each day all
troops will be provided with one cooked
meal.
ID Particular care will be taken in
regard TO sanitation of camp grounds,
which should be left in at least as good
q condition as found.
(k) No ball ammunition for either re-
volvers, rifles or machine guns will be
carried except a few rounds of ammu-'
milton for use in emergencies, which
will remain in possession of the com
PAW troop and battery commanders.
~ Each company, troop, battery and
separate detachment commander will
make personal inspection of his or
ganization for ball cartridges prior to
each exercise or maneuver, reporting
the result to the adjutant of his bat
talon or squadron, who in turn will
transmit these reports TO the umpire
on duty with the organization. The um.
pire viii not permit any movement or
exercise to begin until the reports as
to these inspections have been received
from the organizations to which the re-
speetye umpires are assigned.
(m) Should company, troop, machine
gun platoon, or other unit or fraction
thereof be detached for any purpose the
report of inspection for ball cartridges
will be rendered by the organization or
detachment commander 20 the nearest
local umpire.
(nl The number Of rounds Of blank
cartridges carried each day will be az
follows Ride, go per mani revolver, 10