Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1915 — WAR SPECTACLE NOISE ORDERED [ARTICLE]

WAR SPECTACLE NOISE ORDERED

Speedway Management Sends Adjt. Gen. Bridges Check for 336,000 Blank Rifle Charges. Earlier estimates placed the amount of blank ammunition needed for infantrymen in the war spectacle to be given Monday, Sept. 6, at 100,000 rounds, but the managers of the spectacle computed that at least 200 rounds will be needed for each infantryman in the engagement. . Subsequent orders were placed, and a check for $4,914.72, covering the cost to the government of 336,000 rounds of blank rifle charges, was given by the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to Adjt. Gen. Frank Bridges. Capt. Toffey and his board of strategy, which comprises the members of the tournament committee, will leave no detail untouched that will give people of Indiana a vivid and ■ dramatic demonstration of all the elements in present-day warfare. Plans have been completed for bivouacing all the visiting soldiers at the speedway. It is expected, according to the "tentative*£utline of the field of action, that the first line of defense will be a series of trenches in the track enclosure, and that the retaining wall on the inside of the race course can be mlade the second line of defense. Such an arrangement will bring the set battle within close vision of people in the stands and will offer an opportunity for the engagement of the armored automobiles as an organic part of the last clash between defenders and invaders.