. Review of reviews and world's work. HOW THE .\RMY OF THE SKI MO^^;S ITS ARTILLERY A QUICK MARCH OVER THE FROZEN SNOW. action by an officer, who may be watching theoperations almost up to his middle in snow. Parties of sharpshooters go gliding here andthere over the treacherous snow-crust ; and theweird, unearthly-looking, silent landscape is sud-denly torn, as it were, by the sharp volleying ofmusketry and the roar of field guns. It is aninspiring sight to see one side trying to maneu-ver for a better position than the enemys, andthe officers do not spare themselves, but work,if possible, ev
. Review of reviews and world's work. HOW THE .\RMY OF THE SKI MO^^;S ITS ARTILLERY A QUICK MARCH OVER THE FROZEN SNOW. action by an officer, who may be watching theoperations almost up to his middle in snow. Parties of sharpshooters go gliding here andthere over the treacherous snow-crust ; and theweird, unearthly-looking, silent landscape is sud-denly torn, as it were, by the sharp volleying ofmusketry and the roar of field guns. It is aninspiring sight to see one side trying to maneu-ver for a better position than the enemys, andthe officers do not spare themselves, but work,if possible, even harder than tlie men. One may often see a party of officers at lunchor dinner out in the open air in the deep snow, seated on boxes, and with a packing-case for a table ;while in the backgroundtheir ski, upended in thesnow, stick forth like a pro-tective chevaux-de-frise. Thesoldiers are often under can-vas for a fortnight at a time ;but in the event of a wintercampaign, they would, ofcourse, have to go into reg-ular winter quarte
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