San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-21
|b|GMANEUVER
At BULLS To
LAST 8 DAYS
Reds and the Blues Will
Start War Next
Wednesday.
UMPIRES ARE NAMED
Mai. Gen. E. M. Lewis Will
[ Make Tactical Inspec-
ton of Division.
UMPIRES ARE NAMED

The annual tactical inspection of
the Sec nd Division and its attached
troops by the Eighth Corps Area COM
mander. Maj. Gen. f. NJ. Lewis. will
be the feature of this weeks military
operations at Camp Bulls. This ih-
| spection will take the form III a two
sided tactical maneuver, with the en-
tire second Division on one side and
its attached troops. the Fourth Field
Artillery and the Fourth Cavalry. on
the other side. Ihe Second Division
will be the Red forces and the at
tached oops the Blue forces. This
maneuver will last for three days,
"Wednesday. Thursday and Friday.
During the corps maneuyer, Cen
eral Lewis will be the chief umpire
and his assistant will be the corps
area chief of staff, Col. John L
Preston. General Lewis will establish
his headquarters at Schasse ,anch.
Most Of last week at the corps area
headquarters at Fort Sam Houston has
been spent in preparing for the corps
activities at Camp Bulls, and Sat
urday a list of the umpires was an
nounced. The assistants TO General
Lewis and Colonel Preston will be !:
Col Clyde Z. Hawkins, Lieut.. Coils.
Daniel VanVoorhis. NJ. X. Hilgard.
| $. X. Gleaves. c. c. Culver, Charles
| l.. Foster, and Frank ii. Burton,
Majors II. j. NJ. Smith. i. l.. Field,
Roy III. Coles, f. l.. Parmenter. W. l..
Hart. w. A. Capron and Elmer G.
| Desobry. and Captains J. McD.
Thompson. X. c. Hildreth. J. v.
Matejka and Olaf p. Winningstad.
Back by Sunday.
4 list Of other umpires for the
corps maneuvers assigned TO specific
organizations was also announced.
Those assigned to the Third Infantry
Brigade, Blue forces. are Col Beau
mont B. Buck, Maj. f. II. Tarbutton
and Maj. Seth L. Weld. Those as-
signed 10 the Fourth Infantry Brigade,
Blue forces. are Lieut.. Col. T.. r..
Stone, Maj. +. G. Reilly and Maj.
W. A. McCathran. Those assigned
to the Secopd Field Artillery Brigade,
blue" forces, are Col. L d. Scott.
Lieut.. Col. II. c. Williams and Maj.
Herbert s. Clarkson. The Second
Engineers regiment, "Blue" forces,
was assigned ,wo umpires, Col. Harry
BURGESS and Capt Il. c. Hunter, and
10. the Second Tank Company. the fl
nal unit of the blue" forces. was
assigned one umpire, Lieut.. James A..
\ Gilrrth. $500 .--...
Only five umpires were named for
the Red forces in the corps area
orders. but authority was given Col.
]. V. Heidi to appoin' such additional
umpires for this force as may be neces-
sary. The umpireS named for the
al Col 7 lIaiIt
Mai. v. s. Foster. Maj. +. III. Bert
W. Il. Mobley.
The corps maneuvers will be COM
|pleted Friday afternoon. and it is
honed to save all the men who are
coming back to Fort Sam Houston
back by Sunday. A plan is being
|considered by which the troops will
be returned to Fort Sam Houston by
motor transportation instead of by
marching. A definite decision with
regard TO This had not been reached
Saturday. The idea for bringing the
troops back TO Fort Sam Houston by
truck is TO work out Il problem in
rapid transportation. This method of
TRANSFORMATION was used extensively
|during the war. and military authOri-
tiles ct Fort Sam Houston are in hopes
that a like TRANSFORMATION problem
can be injected into this years ma
|neuvers.
Attached Troops to Lei. g.
Monday morning several trucklOadS
| of soldi rs who got out of the station
hospital this week will go to Camp
|BnlIi. 10 take part in the maneuvers.
The Fourth Field Artillery and the
| Fourth Cavalry will also begin their
march TO Cam? Bulls Monday morn
ling. These are 'he attached troops
|of the Second Division and will rep
resent the Red" forces in the tactical
inspection ny General Lewis. The
Twelfth Field Artillery which has been
at Camp Stanley during the eek will
|join the other regiment of the Second
ARTILLERY Brigade at Camn Bulls
Monday aud will be in position TO be-
|gin the corps mareuvers "Wednesday
morning.
The division mAneuverS will be COM
pleted Moday and Tuesday. during