Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-04-02 | Page 18 | High School Cadets Wage Sham Ensign Peak Bloodless Battle

HIGH SCHOOL CADETS WAGE SHAM BATTLE t ' 0 3 ) .S3 ENSIGN PEAK BLOODLESS BATTLE GROUND rj ALT LAKE HIGH SCHOOL cadets engaged in field maneuvers under the brow of Ensign peak. At top A 3 platoon of cadets who have "gone over the top," making an assault upon an "enemy" trench. Below A I company of cadets charging up the side of the hill to dislodge an "enemy" force above. The field hospital and headquarters base are shown on the flat back of the charging orce. r ' - . Young Red Cross Nurses on Hand to Care for the Wounded Heroes. MORE than TOO cadets of East and West high schools carried on a sham battle on the eastern slope of Ensign peak yesterday. The motive of attack and the Situation Situa-tion of units were based upon assunip- : tion that enemy forces had entered the city, from the north and held Ensign peak. They were presumed not to have set up machine guns. The attacking force assembled at East high school at S o'clock and was mobilized. mob-ilized. Marching north on Thirteenth East they skirted the hills, going eastward east-ward until City Creek canyon was reached. After reaching the rim of the canyon at 10 . o'clock, the attackers crossed it. taking advantage of the natural nat-ural cover. Klines were exploded by the defenders of the bluff as the storming forces advanced, ad-vanced, but the invading host was defeated. de-feated. consider the undertaking successful and exceedingly gratifying, owing to the fact that the cadets, previous to several months past, were engaged in performing perform-ing movements and parades rather than conducting themselves under conditions that occur in warfare," said Alajor Cap-roni. Cap-roni. umpire. No accidents of serious nature took place. One cadet was overcome by heat and exhaustion, and one slightly cut on the forehead by a rolling stone, accidentally acci-dentally started down the grade by the charge up the incline. Six girls of West high school and four girls of East high school acted as nurses. Two teachers, Miss Charlotte Stewart of East high and Miss Beatrice Burton of West high, chaperoned the girls. No cadets reported for treatment at the hands of cleanly attired and pretty pret-ty "Red Cross nurses'' without just cause. A few persons having sons in the sham battle walked from the Capitol Hill car line or rode to the battle ground in automobiles. au-tomobiles. The distance from the car line is nearly three-quarters of a mile. Hospital and engineering corps had headquarters on the fiat east of the peak. Cadets of East high school and those of West high school were not acting as distinctive units. Un uniformed men of both schools held the bluff., and members wearing blue and khaki formed the attacking1 at-tacking1 force. pWr-- : i