Show ARMY AND NAVY MANEUVERS END IN A DECISIVE VICTORY FOR EOR THE NAVY the great game of war the first ver played by bv tho the army and nay navy practically ended sept 5 by a spec attack on the hie forts guarding the entrance to narragansett bay three battleships and crul cruisers sers ran he guns guna of borts adams adama and wether lether NA all 11 getting within athin broadside range for all their guns before they alie discovered the exploit m vaa as so BO daring so BO reck less theoretically and so well ex eluted that it la is the general opinion that rear hear admiral Is en titled to the credit of winning a bril llant ilant victory the army and daiy basy experts declare that nothing short abort of actual war could bo be more spectacular than afar ail ad miral Ilig ginson a attack on the nar rag ansett folta foils lie ile had been de bated f in a well mell planned attack dur ing the afternoon the army looked fur A r a second attack but was not ex pecking it so BO early in the night the searchlights were kept at work in the perfunctory way however and a little before 10 0 clock they picked up ip tho the ships mt anding into the harbor under full dill head of steam they ca canio 0 in III by the narragansett pier and it was not until they had passed deaver tall tail point that the forts picked triem mem up the brooklyn Kro oklyn which was supposed to have been seriously injured by tilting an obstruction in new bed ford harbor tho the other day was waa lead las ing behind came the famous clym pla of manila days then followed tile the I kearsarge Kear sargo admiral Ilig ginson 8 flagship tile tho kearsarge Keara arge was tile tho alabama one of the most ebli lent dent of tho the big fighters and the massachusetts which throughout tho the maneuvers has made a proud record for itself brought up lip tile the rear they were steaming nt at better than ten knots perhaps accounts for tho the absence of the indiana from the column for that battleship Is not in to make any speed at top speed they tamo came on and held their lire until the forts forta opened on them instantly the Ll Il rooklyn replied with its ita forward turret guns the large was as then 2900 yards it was waa just juat 10 0 clock the forts fired with tremendous rapidity each ship chip came into fiction action as aa soon as aa the forts opened firing with the starboard battery at fort adams and with tho the port battery at fort wether it vaa aas evidence eilden co ehn the ships got so BO close being flieg upon poll that bat the thel had won ion tile ho actor fur for alth lah their tremendous in pio apon tern nee of 0 fire points they could have haie both the forts put plit out becote the forts could score enough to stop a single ship tho the ships came through tile hie pass between the foils boits at their tie p e dous clip and steamed straight on up u the bai As they pissed Its baand the forts one by one tile the ceased fir lug the alabama being tho the I list to quit barn hammerl mering nR at tho foitl in ill less than twenty minutes it was vas all over when they got up lip into tile the bay the ships turned on their running lights arain and agan placing their the went abone co naniel lt island and there mado a turn cornice coming down the bay again and passed out again by the forts they had just juat run so 0 o successfully but this time there was no shot fired not N 0 t only was mas this the most daring and spectacular exhibition eh ghen en bi ba a squadron but its success wai stith as to justify the belief that tile the forts had but small chance to escape destruction under tinder the rame circum circumstances stances with mith a hoi hog tile flet fleet occupying the position of admiral Ilig glason there was as no danger from mines as a guadron squadron iu adron of emall vessels had been sent into the hambor the previous pi evious night to countermine the harbor harbo and prevent damage to an of the ships from that source fort adams alone fired forty eight salvos from the mortar batteries batt erlea but bilt tb the ships vre so BO soon beyond the effe ethe range of the mor mar tare that most of tile the sa hos were nere probably useless the afternoon attack upon ne port was vas fully expected in view of the tha fad fact that bete ane enemy had bad thir efforts upon the rate rae off I 1 isaris island the weak point in the defense line it was 2 30 p m when the alist gun was fired from the ad chih with mith tile ho mayflower Alay flower anti and scorpion took up position yards off the station at prices price a neck it was seen that hat an m attempt wag to be made to land anil and destroy tile the sta tion capt jackson Jack aon in charge of the 1 10 A I 1 old fort trumbull Trum bult near new ton lon don harbor one of th chief points of at attack tack station immediately sent word hord to fort adams and three batteries of artillery under tinder maj der were nere rushed to the scene when the ships bad got in position well in shore they opened fire anre on the station and after p r short engagement two boats from tile the mayflower hearted for the beach and landed on the rocks in front font of the life saying saving station As they came in the two gatling guns were brought into play eliy and the troops gave gava the landau landing party a flank flie file front from shoie the marines in number landed in spite of the heavy ille flie and went through gli the movement of cutting the cables and destroying the searchlight after all was over the tim umpire pire aleut J john hn L pure purcell 11 U S N decided that the landing party had been repulsed hostilities ended officially at noon sept 6 the distribution of glory will come later when the board of arbitration meets at the naval war mar r TA f aki 0 target practice with disappearing guns on ell it was A as a clear night ith a heen full of stara and the play of tile the lights and the flashing of tho atins made it a beautiful pit pa ture IN ith almost incredible Inre dible bhea the ships came on oil and abul tle the roar of the fight filled tile tho city tho forts nero ero firing noth all the speed they could muster lister but the game at such short tango lango mas aas against them for tile the ship had them at cicat advantage adNan tago in tho number of their as well ell as in tho the calabr 10 college lledo and heiens leI le tens eNs of the umpires and 11 oll stiers are received rece led rho file in Icat ions aie thit neither tho the army nor navy will be aels batis tied fth tho the decision de Islon and it la is bo be libed that at conlo time lu in tin future there hero NON be another declaration of war with tile tho of hostilities all ani mosley vas nas burled and tho the battleships passed pit sod in review before aalthe all tho forts flon newport Nw port to gardine a point ahen I 1 hen alai gen mccarthur Mi cArthur visited rear hear admeril lison on blaid tho the kearsarge hear sarge and there vas nas an ex ej change of compliments UNITED STATES ARMORED 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