. Kitchener's army and the territorial forces, the full story of a great achievement ;. orps differed from the Armv ServiceCorps and the Royal Engineers in that it was a hijjhlvspecialised department. It had no room save for theskilled workman in certain particular trades. TheArmy Ordnance Corps deals with the guns, and,generally speaking, with all the lethal weapons withwhich the Army is equipped. In addition, in ]3cace timeit has charge ol certain ec|uipineni which cannot liv an\stretch of imagination be described as warlike. Thesenew men who came into the Ordnance Corps at themoment of cris
. Kitchener's army and the territorial forces, the full story of a great achievement ;. orps differed from the Armv ServiceCorps and the Royal Engineers in that it was a hijjhlvspecialised department. It had no room save for theskilled workman in certain particular trades. TheArmy Ordnance Corps deals with the guns, and,generally speaking, with all the lethal weapons withwhich the Army is equipped. In addition, in ]3cace timeit has charge ol certain ec|uipineni which cannot liv an\stretch of imagination be described as warlike. Thesenew men who came into the Ordnance Corps at themoment of crisis found themselves called upon to handlean armament undreamed of in days of peace. Theearlier stages of the war had shown the Allies thee.\traordinar\- superiorit\- in point of numliers of iheenemys artiller\-. Here was the greatest of all the dangers to the .VUies,and the nations of the Allies set to work in desperatehaste to reined\- the deficiencx. It is not permissibleto tell the numlDer of gims which British arsenals andfactories turned oin for the use of our Allies, but it is. SCOUTING INSTRCCTION.—A MODEL OI THE SEAT OF WAR MMlK l\ S\M) Minus RUKRS, RAILWAYS, HILLS,WOODS. CHCRCHES, AND OTHER LANDMARKS. AN OFFICER IS INSTRCCTLNG HIS SOUAD IN THE CORRECTMETHOD OF DISCOVERING THE ENEMVs Kitcheneis Army
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