Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1916 — Indiana Troops Engage In Mimic Warfare. [ARTICLE]

Indiana Troops Engage In Mimic Warfare.

Llano Grande, Tex., Sept. 2S. —One had to Ijeep one’s imagination under control lest he get to thinking that it was a real foe that the Indiana Infantry Brigade wasvabout to face as the Second and Third Regiments took up the defensive positions extending along a two-mile front with the First Indiana held in the rear as a reserve. There was *©t~a bandit in sight as the troops marched out from camp along the Donna road, but theoretically a strong force of enemy troops was moving on our Indiana brigade from the west. The battalion deployed to the side of the road and delayed the advance of the imaginary enemy force while the Third Indiana and the remaining baTtalionT were taking up defensive positions. The maneuvering for position was a bit slow and the men sometimes exposed themselves unnecessary, but with real bullets whistling past their heads "these thrngs wouid be corrected quick--!y. * . ~ Eight machine guns were brought into play and it is dollars to doughnuts that no enemy force would have made its way down that sand road In the face of these rapid shooters. It looked like real business as the small motor trucks whisked here and there with -the machine guns. This was the first time that a brigade maneuver had been attempted by the Indiana brigade. Battery A and C, Indiana Field Artillery, Sunday morning on their overland trip to Point Isabel, where they are to engage get practice with service ammunition used in their field pieces.