The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-09
ANNUAL WAR GAME
TO Open TOMORROW
Regulars and Guardsmen
and the Navy to Partici-
pate in Maneuvers.
(National News Association

| (National News Association)
NEW YORK, Aug. 9.-The great
war game, which will constitute the
instructive feature at this years field
manoeuvres of the Eastern militia,
and for which the Federal Government
has appropriated nearly 100000, is
ready to begin on schedule time TO-
morrow. Not only has war between the
United States and some powerful for
eign nation been theoretically declared
but the enemy is supposed to have
defeated the Atlantic fleet of the Unit
ed States, bottled up" the surviving
warships in Hampton Roads and eff
fected successful landing of 100000
invaders near New Bedford, Mass,
with the intention of invading and oc-
cupying New York.
In accordance with the theoretical
history of the imaginary events preced
ing the actual beginning of the war
game, the invading army drove back
the American army and forced it to
concentrate near Boston. In an en-
gagement supposed to have been TAX
en- place on August 5, the American
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retire via Worcester. toward Albany,
its new base, vigorously pursued by
the enemy. In the meantime the enc
my pushed one of it's divisions west
ward to obtain control of all import
ant junction points along the New
York, New Haven and Hartford Rail-
road in Connecticut and to cut off the
water supply of New York City. Today,
on the day before the beginning of
the war game, the enemy is supposed
to have begun the landing of second
expedition of 100000 men at New Bed
! ford. The first hostile expedition pass
ed through Worcester in pursuit of the
main body of the American troops re-
firing on Springfield The American
troops near New York City are sup
posed to be rushed toward Danbury
and Bridgeport, while a detachment of
the hostile army took possession of
Waterbury. The enemy is supposed to
be hampered in it's advance toward
/ New York by the scarcity of rolling
stock concentrated in Boston and
New York City and by some second
airy American naval craft on the Hud-
son, ready to interfere with transpor-
tation over the shore line of the N. Y,
N. H. & H. Railroad.
Big Fighting Force.
Such, in brief, is supposed to be the
situation tomorrow, when the great
war game, in which the New England
militia, about eight thousand strong,
supported by about 1000 men of the
regular army, including infantry, cav
airy and artillery, will represent the
Red" of invading army, while the
militia of New York and New Jersey,
also supported by regulars, will repre-
sent the defensive force. will begin
in all seriousness to continue for ten
! days. In all there will be more than
twenty-thousand men in the field at
this years manouvres, including the
regulars, being the 5th U. S. infantry,
the 10th U. S. cavalry, composed of
colored troopers, and two batteries of
the Sd U. S. field artillery.
Brigadier General Tasker H. Bliss
who so ably handled the Red and Blue
war game in southeastern Massachu-
sets in 1909, and who is in command
of the Eastern Division will have gen.
eral charge of the campaign. He will
have his headquarters at Bridgeport
and will have the assistance of 80 ma
jors and captains from the regular
army, and the LIST and End regiments
of cavalry The Red" or invading ar
my will be under the command of Ma
jor General Frederick A. Smith, now
in command of the Department of
Missouri. The primary object of the
manoeuvre being the instruction of the
organized militia, large number of
officers of the regular army have been
detailed to act as observers, umpires
and instructors of the militia taking
part in the war game. Each organiza-
ton of the militia of the size of bat
talon will have at least one Regular
officer as instructor during the whole
campaign.
The entire campaign has been plan
ned with a view to giving all the or
CARNATIONS taking part an opportunity
for reconnaissance work, scouting
and contact with the enemy. The
troops will be kept busy every day,
making and breaking camp, marching
skirmishing, accommodating, etc, and
the task will not be an easy one in
view of the fact that the line of at
tack will be unusually long. extending
practically from the southern line of
Massachusetts to New York City. Pre-
sumably the less densely settled por-
lions of the State of Connecticut will
form the principal seat of the imagin-
airy war Ample provisions have been
made for the feeding of the troops in
the field and ambulance, signal and
hospital corps will accompany both
armies through their various opera
tons in the field, as they naturally
would in case of an actual war.
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