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Show oo WANKOWSKI TO BE IN COMMAND San Francisco, Cal , Aug. 7. Brigadier General Robert Wankow-ski Wankow-ski of the National Guard of California, Califor-nia, will not be obliged to serve under un-der a colonel of the regular army, in the big joint regular and militia maneuvers to be held in California for ton days, beginning August 11. Orders issued today by the western west-ern division Of the United States army place him In command of the red or attacking army, which will be largely composed, of national guardsmen, guards-men, with the blue army of the defense de-fense almost wholly composed of regulars. reg-ulars. Some days ago General WankowskI was quoted as saying that he would not take the field under an inferior cfricer, even though that officer were of the regular service. He promptly announced that, on the contrary, he would be glad to serve as a private. Under the new arrangement, the maneuvers become, not only a test of the San Francisco land defenses, but of the regular and militia troops nn |