Evening star., 1939-08-10
Troops
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should be more of it by all means"
The chief of staff and other high
command officers divided attention
between the Manassas maneuvers. a
silent mimic paper war" already
in progress on the Pacific Coast and
preliminaries to the concentration
of some $4,000 troops in northern
New York
New Phase of Training.
Today's exercises, the largest so
far held by the guardsmen, marked
new phase of training for the citi-
zen soldiers, many of whom never
have taken the field with units
larger than a battalion or regiment.
Tomorrow the full strength of each
division will be marshalled and the
two divisions will meet as opposing
forces. This will mark the close of
the first phase of the two-week
training program. Saturday will be
given over to divisional reviews.
Foreign Attaches to Watch.
The second phase will begin Mon
day when provisional division of
Regular Army troops, now assem-
bling and training at Fort Meade,
Nd, and Fort Belvoir, Va, will move
against the combined strength of
the two Guard divisions in a test of
theories and equipment of the mod
ern national defense machine. Re-
garded as of outstanding impor-
tance in the development of the
Regular and Reserve defense forces
of the Nation, next weeks maneu-
vers will be witnessed by the mill
tary attaches of u foreign nations
1t Gen. Friedrich Won Boetticher of
Germany, Maj. Gen. Masafumi va
mutt of Japan, Col Carlos Sanchez
of Venezuela, Col Ricardo Calde-
ron of Mexico, Col Dumitru Peter
scu of Rumania, Col. Ivan L. Oku-
nev of the U. S. S. R., Col. Richard
V. Read of Great Britain, Col. Teh-
Chuan Kuo of China, 1t. Col. Edu-
ardo Leongomez of Colombia,
Squadron Leader Ismael Sarasu of
Chile, Maj. Felipe Munilla of Cuba
and Maj. Jose Bina Machado of
Brazil.
An assembly of National Guard
troops from points as far distant as
Pittsburgh, which had been carried
on without so much as a mashed
finger, constituting safety record
almost without parallel among
militia troops, was marred yesterday
by the first accident of any conse-
quence. A truck carrying 10 Guards
men of Company G, 1st Virginia In
fantry, from Petersburg, Va. strik-
ing a stone concealed in a cloud of
dust, turned over into a ditch and
through fence on the old Braddock
road, just off the Lee highway.
Eight of its occupants, none of them
believed to have been seriously in
jured, were ordered to the Army
Hospital at Fort Myer, Va, for ex-
animation and X-ray observation
and were transported there in am
balances of the 104th Medical Reg
iment, Maryland National Guard,
from Baltimore.
Names of Injured.
The injured are First 1t. Richard
n. Ryan, Corpls. George F. Logsden
and Louis E. Parker and Pvts.
Daniel T. Caldwell, John w. Brooks,
Alvin E. Goulder, Forest F. Curtin
and James K. Livesay Pvt. Curtin
was thought, after preliminary ex-
aminations in the field, to have re-
ceived slight conclusion. The
preliminary examinations showed
no broken bones or fractures in any
of the eight cases.
The Regular Army troops forming
the provisional division were almost
entirely assembled yesterday at
Fort Meade and Fort Belvoir, with
only the End Separate Chemical
Battalion, from Edgewood Arsenal,
Md, still missing from the organi-
Zation at Meade. Under command
of Brig. Gen. Maxwell Murray, the
regulars today are going through
much the same training program as
the guardsmen, conducting ex-
ercises by successfully larger units
until the division is welled into a
single fighting force.
Heavily mechanical, with tanks,
combat cars, scout cars, motorized
artillery, infantry and cavalry, pre-
ceded by the air screen of the Sd
Observation Squadron, from the
General Headquarters Air Force.
Langley Field, Va, the provisional
division will be hurled next week
against the Guard divisions. Though
outnumbered 1900 to 5000 by the
guardsmen, the regulars are count
ing upon their more compact Or
ganization, greater mobility and
harder hitting weapons for victory
against the bulkier Guard divisions,