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Show The Wisconsin. lights out except the hooded tail lights and the trailing electric lights by which those to the rear kept in touch with those in front. The usual practice is to use sub-calibre guns for simulating the fire of battle, but this time blank shells were used and the battle thus assumed the character of the real thing. , The manoeuvres of this season will mark a new era in the history of the naval militia. If war should come the -militia would quickly be mobilized with the regular navy, and it is only the part of practical sense to continue to have the annual war game' embraced local branches of the service. Ultimately the army will be drawn into the problem, prob-lem, and the defense of the country in actual war will be simulated with greater advantage than any yet carried car-ried out |