Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-08-25 | Page 5 | 'Armistice' Halts U. S. Army 'Battle' |

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Date	1939-08-25
Paper	Salt Lake Telegram
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
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Article Title	'Armistice' Halts U. S. Army 'Battle'
Type	article
Date	1939-08-25
Paper	Salt Lake Telegram
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
Page	5
OCR Text	Show ARMISTICE HALTS II UI u. S S. S ARMY BATTLE BArTLE PLATTSBURG N. N Y Aug 25 UP Mimic UP-Mimic Mimic warfare between U.S. US U.S. U. U U U. S S. S and national guard troops in the nations nation's at ons on's largest peacetime maneuvers was halted by a surprise surprise surprise sur sur- prise armistice today two hours before the scheduled close of battle bat bat- tle Headquarters of the first field army gave no reason for the order stopping a two-day two battle designed to test efficiency of mechanized army units It came a day after three soldiers huddled under a tree in a cloudburst were killed by lightning raising the death toll tollof tollof tollof of th the war games to eight
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