It was a token war. Smoke-makers and powder puffs represented artillery fire; Lucas lamps indicated machine gun fire; Bren delivery was aided by rattles; road blocks by white tape: aerial bombs by the dropping of Sashalite indicators; low aircraft machine gun fire by blank emmunition. Also trucks with different painting stood for various types of tanks, and anti-tank equipment was indicated by shields, This of course as supplementary to real equipment, battery fire and the like.
Considerable interest attached to the handling of the 2nd Division which was entrusted to Brig. Francis Nosworthy and he showed a sound conception of the new organization and its uses by discarding advance guards and narrow fronts. He moved from the line of the Come broad-flung and ready for those quick contacts which mobile troops enforce. His division front had across it his mobile force of tanks, ordinary and cavalry field guns and machine gun battalions ready to break in on the opposition and lead up to the employment of the whole division. Incidentally he showed authority that the infantry unit to associate with cavalry tanks is the machine gun battalion and not the rifle battalion. He switched lorried infantry from flank to flank.
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