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Show fj The great European war, military experts say. is but a great chess game in which some master F.lrat-cgist F.lrat-cgist eventually must call "(.heck mate" on his opponent aud the game feGffl will Dot be renewed 3 From the time of the first battles, details of which are clouded Inmyth-Ologlcal Inmyth-Ologlcal coloring, the strategy of tin-Hyl tin-Hyl "Chess game" won. In the Siege of m3B Troy so elaborately described in fl Homer's Iliad and more conserva- 3S tively told In history, a wooden horse containing several thousand M warriors was pushed through the ttfim gates of Troj and the Trojans, be- 99 lievtng it a visitation of one of their Bh gods, permuted the "horse" to pass 'be gates One within a panel qp nod 9B from the abdomen and the warnors, who had vainly sieged the gates of HH Troy for twenty years, emerged and conquered the Trojans. I; was but HB a game of chess in which the victo- rious Greeks '.ailed ' chetk-mate" after their clever ruse. In more recent times and in the last war in which the- United States engag.d. Admiral Dewey entered a game of chess with the Spanish fleet and after the engagement in the harbor of Manila called 'Jbheck male" with the pawns and Die back row Di the Spanish choss board fl wiped away Dewey , maneuvered until he played his master play and sunk the Spanish fleet. Ou April 27, 1 80S. his squadron, consisting of the flagship Olympia, the Boston. Baltimore and Raleigh and the gunboati Concord and Petrel tteamcd from Mil's Day toward .'a- The chess board had been studied by the Admiral and the move decided decid-ed upon. In his cabin on the Olympia Olym-pia he sat with a map before him as a chess board and decided on the move that ended in "check mate" BATTLE OF U I MLA. At ,i m . on a Sunday morning the United Mates squadron in battle array steamed befori the harbor of Manila, disregarding the fire of the Spanish fleet in the harbor Ror thirty minutes Dewey kept maneuvering maneu-vering about to obtain the position he desired, as unmindful of the shell of the enemy as the patient chess player is at the frowns and the requests re-quests to hasten from his opponent in the game. The guns of the Olympia opened Are and the signal passed to all the battleships in line-. The decisive move that Dewey had planned In his Cabin had be-en made and in a lev, hours the Spanish fleet was sunk and the batteries of Cavitc silenced. si-lenced. Several days later Admiral Schley, playing the great game with another .Spanish fleet under Cervera. ended the game by sinking the fleet Coneral Phafter at Santiago played a master game ashore and with his troops won the third victory which resulted in the complete Spanish rout. If A IT IT OF si:i V. Just 28 years prior to that time was fought the great Battle of St -dan in which General Von Moltke heading the Prussians led the French under MacMahon into a "pocket" at Sedan from which the Frenchman could not make a single sin-gle move, and after a great loss of men he admitted he was checkmated check-mated and he and Louis Napoleon withdrew from the game MacMahon with an army of 150.- men had been ordered by the French government to proceed to the relief of General Bazaine who was fortified in the City of Metz. MacMahon knew he was being sent into a trap, but Implicitly followed his instructions. Failing to reach Metz to relieve General Bazaine, MacMahon dropped back on Sedan, one of the great forts designed by Vauban and at that time considered impreg-nahle. impreg-nahle. He was uulhh nt Sedan would resist the attack of the enemy, bin. should it fail, he was determined to retreat to the Fort of Mezieres, fifteen fif-teen miles west. However, when MacMahon had fortilled himself in Sedau with his Ften. h treiops. Crown Prince Fred-crick's Fred-crick's army with Its left wing was in striking distance of the route of retreat to Mezieres. while the right wing rested on the rivet Mr-use in the same territory much disputed last fall when the German troops and the alius fought after the unsuccessful un-successful attempt of the intruders to make their way to Paris. To the southeast was the army of the Crown Prince of Saxony. The German Ger-man host extended in a curve about Sedan, occupying nearly five out of eight of the points of the compass. Inside this crescent, presenting a convex front to the enemy, was MacMahon Mac-Mahon 's army of 150100 men. Aided by a mist over the rir Meuse. which kepi their movements concealed, the Bavarian Army Corps of Prince Frederick's army moved across the Meuse toward th village of Bazcilles Under ( over if the fog the German troops sm t t i dt d in surprising sur-prising and routing the forces of General Lebrun. Meanwhile the Prussian guards stormed the heights of Givonne, three miles northeast of Sedan. Watching the mam UV rs was Count von Bismarck and Genera Fhil Sheridan, present as the United States Commissioner to Germany. General Von Moltke through a large field telescope mounted on a tripod watched the maneucrs of his "chess men " just as they were planned by him may days before. To others it may have seemed the troops moved in contusion, but to (he master mas-ter player who had planned the battle, bat-tle, they were in everj Instance moving as it they were pawns, pushed lather and thither by his own hand. Between Sedan the cavalry cav-alry of General Marguerltte was stationed. sta-tioned. Follow ing Instructions from Von Moltke the Eleventh Prussian Army Corps prepared for the battle with Margueritte's troops. The latter lat-ter sent General Gallifet with three regiments and two squadrons against the advancing host. His forces were mowed down by the needle gun and what few remained remain-ed were compelled to retreat Mar-gueritte. Mar-gueritte. himself, descended with his cavalry from the heights Jf Illy, near St. Menges. was .ompleteh di -f rated and he and two other French generals wW killed. Tins allowed the Prussian forces to join in a ring about Sedan aud tht destruction "f thai stronghold was Inevitable wf'h 200,000 troops marching ou it. Before the column were 24G pieces of artillery firing just where Von Moltke wished ilu-m to fire, as perfectly it were but pawns and he. from his position on a hill, were moving thvm with his own hands. D 1TTLE Of RL1 MHIM. Bj a similar, yet lessdramatic move was the battle of LT c n i i lm won. In 1704, in a more or lss political po-litical war, in which an alliedVorce of Prussians. English and Austria and Holland was arrayed agai"iat the French, the latter were "poi'k-eted" "poi'k-eted" near the village of BlcnheJ with the liver Xebcl in from oNj them and steep heights in the rear. The Duke of Marlborough, leader! of the allied forces, decided on an immediate attack, although his 1 i ounsel was opposed by ihat of oth- ' er generals. Marlborough, however. v had figured out his end of this great "chess game" so thoroughly that after much persuasion he was able to convince his associates. The army jf the allies was formed form-ed into two great divisions, the largest larg-est being commanded hy Hi. Duke Of .Marlborough in person and the other by Prince ESugene On the morning of August D'J, 1704. in a fog similar to that that played to the favor of the Prussians in the baitle of Sfdan, the allies moved on the French. Between Blenheim and the position of the allies was FNttiutN r POINCARE OF FRANCE the French cavalry under command ol Marshal Tallard Hi troops pul up such a severe fight that several times the Duke of Marlborough s troops and cavalry were routed with great loss The allies also loSl in an attack made by Prime Eugene and several times were near dt i I Beside defending his own position Marlborough had o safeguard Prince Eugene's troops and although al-though thi.ai.-m-d with disaster was firm In his conviction thai his plans in this gr at t hess s,.mp would qoi go amiss and . rcntuallv he would bt? victorious After a I nea-e- ment with the cavalry of Marshal Tallard In which blsartillerj played an important and decisive in i Jlborough drove back the Fwnih cavalry and then with his ar m forts of Blenheim tH ine defenders were forced to surrender sur-render and Marlborough was knowledged winner of the -ain, ANCIENT "GUESS" GAMES. h.ASChnak aS 600 -Voa,s More lai -hiislian era hnii fought by lhe , - -ore chess board.' n thai age fhe Uh Uians routed the MedeT and St9' 'sians in one of the rc,J ' Uj thi . world. coSldL-b ' The great fear the Creeks hetri r th Wrsian. is B matter orece , cr tmn "f those who h:ne read hist0rl or translated the great nations g Demosthenes bu, , the memorable memora-ble batt-'c of Marathon the Creek forever re'Jted tho invaders jn a tht quick ami dei isive battle. On the plains of Marathon in a line (Mending for six miles ih Medea and Persians were gathered tr determined not on battle hut wan- Ch ing for traitors supposed 10 h- in lis the Greek camps to betray -.heir 8:3 enemy. o the hills nboe the fc plain the Athenians were camped i Their leader, Aristldes, decided that Di an attack In whldh he matched his Th small force against the overwhelm- mg nun.h. , of his enemies, was the ft onl3 means of driving rhe tyrants Bi from the shores of his native land At a Bignhl, the Gret s inspired ga, by lovt ol country and by memories Of deeds of valor done on thos. ' Plains of Marathon by Iheir ancestors before them, marched so quickly on ihe enemy thai be had t little Ume to Prepare The J Greeks, armed with spears, quickly routed the archers, and after 8omc . 1 slight reverses drove ih. Medes ' fler and Persians to their ships After N Ber burning several ships the Greeks ?a aw their enemy sail awav Al- ?ul though the defeated enemy attempt- J?n v-d to make several landiims hc Jai were always met by the conquerors r"' and finall. sailed awav never ,o ' ea return It was but another victory by or st raff gy to So at present the great generals ln 2 of Europe are planning thai decisive 0 move that must eyentualh end in the victory for one force or the oth r, by military experts say. The battles the so far have been but the moves of ThT pawns with occasionally a k'in8 ' Qua 1- ?LS,01"ins ',om 29V- row to fake some decisive actiou. At " 1 wor |