The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-20
TWO ARMIES FIGHT
AT Big CAMP TO-DAY
Nod Invaders Will Drive Back
Blue Men for instruction
of Guardsmcn.
AEROpLANE WILL ASSIST

cANr WHITMAN. Fishkili Plains, July
ia-As the thermometer registered 70
a, mess call his morning. with every
indication that il would rise to yester-
DAYS hot record. the $500 state troops
sncampcd here began to think they were
Mexico.
Every man in the First Brigade knew
the taste Of Duchess county dust after
a tropical tramp. lie learned the topog-
raphy Of every foot Of the four square
miles he covered. In skirmish tactics
he acquired such proficiency az a Turk
ish bath taken on the run would permit.
IN a word, the great camp is making
good as n place Of instruction. Under
real service conditions the troops are
gradually improving in fitness and eff
cheney. II will he no fault Of the COM
handing officers of the state Guard II
the miliatiamen do not measure up to
the regulars in service soon.
Preliminary drills. continual skirmish-
ing In which the militiaman ran swiftly
100 feet across a field of newly cut
stubble, to throw himself fun length
on the grass and begin popping away
at an imaginary enemy. "a taste OF
trench digging and more hikes on the
dusty roads constituted to-day's rou-
tine.
Aviator George Gray Of New York
city. a Wright f,ier. arrived with "A mill
tary ~acroplane and will participate in
to-norrow's manpuvres. when the Red
arrny under Col. J. r. Dickman, l.. =. A.,
composed OF the Sixty-ninth militia regi-
ment, n battalion of the Thirtieth
United States regulars and three troops
Of the Second Cavalry. will attack the
camp from the south, after theoretically
advancing from New York. Gen. Dyer
commanding the Seventh, Twelfth and
Seventy-first militia regiments. known
as the Blue army, will fan back. build
ing bridges owe Sprout Creek to make
the retreat.
For this war problem Gen. Dyer's
force theoretically will be com
Irised OF $4,000 men and 1000 horses
and Sprout Creek will supposedly be
eighty-one feet across, although one car
in reality cross 1t In two good leaps.
This war problem will be staged in the
morning. Another similar problem will
occupy the afternoon. \ full dress re.
view OF the entire brigade will be held
on Thursday in honor of the visit OF
Gov. whitman.
One OF the interesting figures now al
Camp Whitman is Sergt. Deacon. In
charge OF the pack train OF the wagon
supply corps. Deacon enlisted wiz tho
English cavalry six months ago and was
made to feel the effects of the deadly
gases used by the Germans. He enlisted
last February. and after the British
landed in France the American was In
the thick OF the fight at various points
along the line near Neuve Chapelle.
II was OF March - durfng the British
drive. which resulted so successfully,
that Sergt. Deacon fell n victim of tho
chlorine gases. He was carried uncon-
scious from the field and later sent 10
England. Not until May 80 was he able
10 return to this country.
The wagon supply train at Camp
Whitman. which Is under the direction
Of Capt. Thomas II. stanton. is superior
70 the British wagon trains. accordinC
TO Sergt. Deacon. Horse trains. he says
are seldom used for transportation pur-
poses, motor trucks and automobile trac-
tors having supplanted them practically
a.. along the line.