The Game of War.

Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 18, 16 February 1889, Page 2

The Game of War.

I From the Pftcifio Cammtrcial A Utrtitfr Jan. 16.J " Krii»gspiel" (the game of war) is liemniiiig almost ns popular onmnjr Hritislitro-psns it isin Germany, where it was invented. There is stanely a rogiriMitnl headquarters that has not tho maps und blocks and lead soldiers of which the game is composed, and now the o mpauy anrl troop commanders aro taking to buying them, and not n few sergou'its' mosses have them. " Kriegspiel," it should be explained, is really a gums of iustriiotion, having rao»» of tin- advantages of a sham fight in the Gold, without its wear and-tear, its wusto of ammunition and the delays consequent upon manoeuvring in a friendly country, where garden* and cultivated fieHs must he spared, navigations of rivers left unobstructed, and crowdsof sir htsoers are over in the way. Topographiotil map* are maxMof the neighboring rogion, usually on a scale of six inches to the mile, heights of hills and their oxnetcoutoursare shown by curves, equidistant the one from the other, woods and fresh water are recorded ai they exist, the depths, widths and shore line of stream*, together with the character of the* bottom b for the information of the pontoniers, are carefully laid dowa. The game is said to be iovelHaJbla. V » means of instructing the afttyftP in field work and of training oOoen to successfully operate thtir oomra*nds in a strange country.: Tha ©iflle*r has his map as the pilot of a eWp .fck%Jti« chart of a strange harbor, aafi H the map ia correct it should enable Wm to move with ** much pnottfea aa 4

r~ipßW against certain contingencies as Barely as though he wore on familiar ground.