ay INTERESTING FIoWT, The field operations that the Shanghai Volanteer Corps engaged in on Batarday, in the Eastern District, were of s most interesting description, and oalminated la " general assault on the Artillery Battery, which was carried out with enthusiasm, But on Satarday, more than in any recent mancavres, the critical spectator was bound to realize that the ultimate resalt, so far it was 0 definite resalt, was very different to what it would hare beet actual warfare, As even every "tire is well aware, this is the great fault of all manceuvres in time of peace; it is an old complaint that usually achieves from that follows, and with the object of pointing out that on Satarday troops that would have been pat out of action by umpires, came on and accomplished a daring charge, It has been ang gested that it might be pos-lo to invent some form of clammy projectile that could be fired by the artillery and which would rise over the advancing troops like a rocket and burst in the air, This would indicate the direction of th ry fire and enable an umpire to order exposed troops out action; bat the question of range is a very difficalt one. If some such device had been in use at the latest field operations of the 8. V. C. the general attack of the infantry on the guns would probably not have taken place. But there is another view that, mart be taken of that is that it is ondortaken with the view of teaching men the general rudiments of warfare, and from thix most important point. of view Colonel Barnes's scheme on Saturday proved
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