A Home newspaper reported last month that a copy of an order circulated to the officers commanding German artillery unite had been picked up in which it was definite ly stated that economy was neoessary because the rate of expenditure of ammunition exceeded the power of supply. Second, it was ordered "that the practice of searching out areas on the chance only of locating vulnerable targets must cease." The latter practice is a free application of the French system known as the Zr lroyitssif. The French favour opening fire at a decisive range, and if there is not a definite target they hope to check the enemy by sweeping areas in whioh his presence is suspected with a storm of shrapnel. This method calls for a large supply of ammunition, but it can be counted upon to give absolutely certain results when the enemy is known to be within a specified area. The gradual increase of the range would
an advancing enemy. Presumably result in Page execution amongst the Germans have applied the aye. tem according to their own ideas, but if they abandoned it that would, in itedlf, not be adequate ground for arguing that their ammunition supply was running low, for the Russians adopted the tem in Manchuria and found it ineffective, presumably because they often swept unoccupied areas. But there are other grounds for believing that Germany is economizing in the matter of ammunition, while her complaint against America supplying the Allies shows that she feels the advantages of an unlimited supply.
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