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Show WHAT A MODERN BATTLE IS LIKE Recent Maneuvers of French Army Managed From Point Fifty Miles Away. Paris. Oct. IS. An excellent idea of what a modern land battle is like was obtained during thp French arms maneuvers, when General Nicholas Chomer, commanding tho 00,000 men of the Southern army, did not see a regiment dnring the five days nor on the final day of the battle did he hear a gun. The General's headquarters on tho la6t day were in a pleasant wayside tavern, twenty-five miles behind the firing lines, which extended about tho same length. A large scale map of the region was spread upon a table, a row of telephones like that In a N'ow York broker s office was on a wall in the dining room, the tables of the field telegraphers were on the other side of the room, and wireless Instrument Instru-ment cracked in an outbuilding. On the meadow adjoining military ap'n-planes ap'n-planes arrived and departed, adjutants adjut-ants taking the reports of the aviators avia-tors Throe colonels of the staff collated tho telephonic, telegraphic, and 'he wireless reports and tho airmen s observations, ob-servations, moving colored broad-headed broad-headed pins on the map. thus indlcst Ing from moment to moment the relative rel-ative positions of their own and the' enemy's troops. General Chomer studied the map attentively Now and then he gave an order concerning the movement of his troops or discussed with his chief of-staff of-staff the significance ( the information informa-tion just received. General Paul Pan. the eommander-in-chief of the rival Northern army, under much the same circumstances, sat some fifty miles away sending his brigades and divisions into action, with no more of the tumult of n.ir than Is heard during a cable ch sss match |