Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-12-03
Then there is the new bayonsl

Then there is the new oay0nCG
 bayonet Is knife, q doublo
 knife sixteen inches long. lt cut1
 ways. It will do more execution Y
 any bayonet ever devised before. | ties Of the Russo-J Japanese war rF&x Y that there is still plenty of use fof k " bayonet, which some military men N11,
 begun to consider obsolete. x Ss 3 For the first time each regiment
 It's own machine gun squad. A dQtM Z | of twenty-one men handles th0 roI445 mental machine guns, which are V)6x43 ers- Maxims of the same caltber aa t&13 new rifle. When in operation th&&4g guns resemble cameras or surveYc0m$ | instruments, being set on tripods. Th613l action, however, is different. An tg-f pert handler of one of these little trip&1s devils can saw board in two Wit&s bullets at distance of half a mile \ @ The new three inch i.eld gun jG nNlsA other novelty in active service. but toH tried and proved by thorough tests. " shoots a shrapnel shell of fiftoen. pounds, having bursting radius Q1 | fifty yards Great accuracy, long raneog and reduced recoil are features of thaoa gun. | Il nell tiGT6 IS tiic lilOuutdlu 8uuS SUI- ried, like the regimental machine g11ss l on the back of mule. The piece its4lk | is borne by one mule, the carriage bys I another and the ammunition by ~ third. This gun is of 2.95 inches cnl3-s ber Like the field gun 1t shocts A fifteen pound projectile, but its ranGoi is not so great. The chief advantaqo
 of this gun is that it can be caFx4 over mountain trails, wherever q Mulo can find footing.
 In estimating the fighting ef1ciouGy | of an army the horses and mules u31ge not be omitted. The best cava1IY horses in the world come from the western plains of the United StataR These horses are thoroughly educated. | They know their business as wal saa | the trooper knows his. Sometimea s0 say the instructors. the horse lesrns faster than the man. The army ruie ial | highly important. No one will doNy | that the Missouri mule, whether from Missouri or some other western stato, l Is universally sought after. EnglAnAs Japan, Germany, Russia and other na-8 l tions supply themselves with pack | mules from the United States when l they can get them. The United 6tQtoa army mule also is educated He gEu4~3 | uates from the training school at Je&-l | ferson barracks, St. Louis, befora ro-' ceiving his commission to carry q | mountain gun or load of cartridges. The men in our army are the 1ttee&' | of all. Statistics show that they arU slightly larger than any other soldiegus | and that adds something to their fight | ing force. They are physically at: | they must be to get into the army. or | late the enlistment regulations have been made more rigid. If a man has aS | corn nowadays he is liable to turn- | ing down when he seeks to enlises | Corns interfere with forced marching. The American army of today has tho worlds best marksmen. That record
 was held before the Spanish war, bue. | the infusion of green volunteers dur- | ing that conflict lowered the standard. of craftsmanship, and for a time the | championship was lost to the Unitod | States. But now our soldiers have W0n l back the premier place in marksmAn. | ship, making better records than any' | soldiers in the world ever made bo~. fore. There are now in the aruy about 10000 crack shots-men who have made the grade of marksman w better. That is most remarkah,e
 showing, and 1t means something "aVk>l | ward" in case of war.
 l ROBERTUS 1OvR