New Britain herald., 1927-05-19
||Arny-Navy Activities Along New England
 Coast Broadens To-
 day Into Battle" h. volving All Units.
Black Invaders Theoreti- cauy Succeed in Putting 10000 Men Ashore But These Are Later Annihi. lated, Officers Rule.
New England Safe

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 New England Safe
 Newport, R. l.. May 19 R--
 The joint army and navy man.
 euvers ended at 1925, eastern
 standard time today, when the
 blue forces won sweeping vic-
 tory in defeating the blacks who
 sought to invade New York and
 southern New England.
 Newport, R. l., May 1s Rl-A morning, but has been hurled back. divided and now occupies a hopeless position, Major General Preston Brown, commander of the blue forces. announced today. Without support from it's own fleet, outnum- bered in infantry and subjected to the fire of railway and other artil- lery. the landing force of 10000 men might be annihilated, he believed.
 No Ofrtcial Report
 The umpires have as yet made no report on the success of the invasion but General Brown outlined his con- ception of the situation after four hours of bitter theoretical fighting.
 Under covering fire from the black fleet, transports last night had slip ped around Vineyard light into Buz- zard's Bay and landed 10000 men along the beaches. A landing unit at Point Judith in Narragansett Bay was repelled. The bombardment of the previous day had greatly de- pleted the efficiency of the shore forts in that sector.
 All Units Involved
 The joint war of the army and navy. which for the first day had been entirely naval, with brief en- gagement of air forces over the blue headquarters at Fort Adam. New port, was now broadened to include every type of force.
 The black fleet, its guns helpless because of their fiat trajectory which would have wrought havoc among their own land forces equal to that among the blues. had they fired, stood by off shore.
 The 26th and 43rd divisions of the blues, moving by trucks and marching. were flung against the ad vancing line of the blacks. They went into action at about 6:S0 this morning. Behind them the 14 inch mobile artillery units began the counter attack on the black forces. which had for support only mountain artillery and tanks. Fort Adams 12 inch mortars and artillery at Paradise point drove to sea again three of the transports which had landed black infantry.
 Heavy Casualties"
 Theoretically, the blue and black land forces met in terrific combat enormous" according to General Brown. Carried back by the weight of superior forces supported by much stronger artillery. the advance of the blacks was checked. Then they were forced back toward the sea. Relentlessly driving against the invaders the blue forced the enemy to oPiIk oh ClliCt sluC VI LilC " CoI branch of the Westport river.
 The blacks clung tenaciously to the narrow strip of territory which they had occupied almost without opposi- ton in the early morning hours. En- trenchments were hastily thrown up to meet the artillery fire which was poured upon them.
 18 Mile Battlefront
 The blues. having flung two di- visions directly into the combat, moved two others into close re- serve. The 97th was moved to Taunton, a few miles to the north while the 76th. which had been held on the west side of Narragansett Bay. was en route to Providence to the west of the battle-ground.
 The battle ragged over an IS mile front. General Brown declared, as the success of the blue arms was re- ported, that the maneuver had con- vinced him that this area of the third sub-coastal sector was impreg- nable if sufficient supply of mobile troops were available.
 Yesterdays developments in the annual army-navy joint maneuvers caUe with all the relentless swift ness of a real war. Casualties were as heavy and combat was waged far into the night and over wide area.
 "Rlues" Suffer Losses
 Outstanding damage to the Blue forces which are attemptinp to prevent the sack of the metropolis by way of an overland thrust. saw the loss of the flagship Concord and destroyers Lawrence and Sturtevant. All three ships had inflicted heavy damage on the Black fleet before the Concord was sent to the bottom by tho dreadnaught Pennsylvania.
 Langley Not Sunk
 An unconflrmed report which gave temporary cheer to the Blue headquarters here was dashed when it was authoritatively reported to the official uMpires that the air plane carrier Langley was safe. Earlier advices were that the Black fleet auxiliary had fallen prey to
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