El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-11-09
BIC WAR CANE
BEGINS TUESDAY
Every Branch Of the Service
Will Be Represented in
Sham Battle.

Twenty-Five hundred troops. repre-
senting the cavalry infantry. signal
corps and artillery, Will be engaged
Tuesday morning in the biggest war
game that has ever been staged in
this section. The fighting viii take
place on the north mesa, beginning
at 9 o'clock. Gen. John J. Pershing will
be in command of the mailsuyers.
Real shells and bullets will be used
in the battle, about 100 rounds of ball
cartridges being fired by the Infantry
and cavalry, and 100 shrapnel shells
by the artillery.
The battle will represent an attack
on FL PasO. A regiment of hostile IN
rantry, with two batteries IF artillery.
suddenly sweep down upon I'll Faso
from the north. arriving Al the south
ern base of MOu 1t fc@uEIin Monday
NIGHT. Here the Enemy infantry will
throw Up strong entrenchments-
Troops HIVE Been Warned.
American troops in New Mexico have
been warned OF their approach and
sent to the rescue of FL PasO. These
troops will consist of the sixth infantry,
the 10th infantry, the 10th infantry,
a battalion of the sixth field artillery
and a squadron of the 10Th cavalry.
The troops will arrive at Harris
mill Tuesday morning and establish
their Headquarters there. The cavalry
will Immediately be dispatched on a
scouting expedition to ascertain the
nositiOn and the strength of the enemy.
The artillery is then sent to put the
enemv's batteries out Of commission so
that the infantry a safely approach
to the attack.
The three batteries Of the sixth field
artillery will then advance against the
enemy and take up a strategic posi-
ton about a mile and a half southeast
of Mount Franklin. Under cover OF
the heavy artillery fire the 18th IN
fantry, commanded by Col omar
Bundy, will advance toward the mesa.
The sixth infantry, commanded by Col.
J. NJ. Arrasmith, will detOur through
the city and approach the enemy's po-
sitiOn on the mesa from Ange street.
Goth Held in Reserve.
The goth infantry, commanded by
Col. John S. Parke, will be held in re-
serve until after the attack has begun
BY the time the American batteries
have siIenced the enemy's guns the
American troops will come out into
the open in the rush up the foothills
to the enemy's positions and the bat
tcries will begin to roar again to V
their troops approach.
Small skirmishes will occur at the
outposts about the mesa and a stub
born fight will center about the old
stone house which will be strongly
fortified. A rifle trench has been dug
in front of it and from the roof and
windows the s~harpShOOters OF the
enemy will endeaVOT to check the on
coming advance Of the American
troops.
large represent Enemy
In the war game the enemy will be
represented by movable targets, worked
on puIleys by soldiers concealed IN pits
in the ground. The targets viii be
shown for a short space of time only,
other targets appearing IN OLner
Strategic positions to represent the
movements of the enemys forces. capt
J. n. Pickering, of the 10th
will be the commandments or me
nemy' forces, and from a central
r---rr - +h- uoae1 10 will direct the
movements Of the enemy by telephone
with the operators hidden in the Tar
get pits. over five miles OF
wire has been installed underground
connecting the target pits with one
another and with h central heau-
quarters.
As real ammunition Will De useu,
every effort has been made to have
the target pits shell and bomoprooI' SO
that the soldiers hidden therein may
! oDerate the moving targets in perIecl
safety. The targets representing the
enemy's artillery will be large anu
"T1 h var game will be the culminat-
ing event in the series of maneuVerS
and war games that have been ReIu
nv he border troOps since the mlddie
oF October. Spectators Will be tWel-
comed nv the army men, provided they
! occupy the official grandstand' "hlSu
+ viii he the old Mexican village on tne
= mesa This will be the only saIe
I place from which the maneuVers may
be witnessed.
battle Begins mt D a. NJ.
AS the American troops VIII nave
/ To hike some distance from their re-
1 sDective camps to the mobilization Jay
Harris mill. the 10Th infantry with the
artillery and cavalry coming from Fort
/ Bliss. the Sixth and the 18th infantry
rom Cotton addition, the battle vii
not begin much before 9 O'Clock OF
! Tuesday morning. -
the 18TH infantry. under Capt Picker
ing's direction, have been blasting GU
/ the target pits and laying the sigma
wire in preparation for the oal'Ie-