. Kitchener's army and the territorial forces, the full story of a great achievement ;. and had certain tables fixed for himas to the amount of each which might beemployed in the demolition of buildings orbridges. To make sure, he was taught touse 50 per cent, more in the face of an enemythan in ordinary circumstances. The exactquantity of gun-cotton to destroy a wall, apier, an arcli, or a girder he committed tomemory. None of the grim possibilities ofwar were left untouched by his instructor. If the guns have to be abandoned,destroy them, said the calm engineeringofficer, discussing the matt
. Kitchener's army and the territorial forces, the full story of a great achievement ;. and had certain tables fixed for himas to the amount of each which might beemployed in the demolition of buildings orbridges. To make sure, he was taught touse 50 per cent, more in the face of an enemythan in ordinary circumstances. The exactquantity of gun-cotton to destroy a wall, apier, an arcli, or a girder he committed tomemory. None of the grim possibilities ofwar were left untouched by his instructor. If the guns have to be abandoned,destroy them, said the calm engineeringofficer, discussing the matter with the sameplacidity as if he were a professor of psycho-logy laying down academic detailed the correct way of destroyinga gun. You will load it with shell, pack vourgun-cotton charge behind it, and fire. Puttwo pounds of gun-cotton for a 3-inch gun,and double the charge for every inch ofcalibre over,; inches. Gun-cotton was of no use against wireentanglements, and heavy explosive shellsaimed at these obstacles merely made themworse by creating pitfalls under PULLING THE f SPAN OF A IKIUGE INIO POSLflON. When youre looking out for fords, hisinstructor went on, remember that cavalr\-want 4 feet and infantry 3 feet. Guns want2 feet 4 inches. It was an interesting course, unlike anyother in the world, fascinating to the tyro,and destined to be not only immenselvhelpful to him in his Army career, but toassist him materially in ordering histhoughts when he returned to civilian recruit did not know, until he had beenmade acquainted with the fact, that if youmultiply the breadth, the depth, and thevelocity of running water by 9,000, you dis-cover in your sum the gallons that pass intwenty-four hours. If you wanted to securean idea of the velocity, you had but to throwa floating object into the stream, watch how-many feet it drifts in a minute. If it drifts6, 6 is the velocity figure. And there was much more that the en-gineer recruit had to le
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