The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-09-07

Aeroplane Squadron-12 aero
planes.
Aeroplane and Kite Squadron
Two airships and two kites.
An airshiD battalion in the British
army consists of from 20 to 80 ma
chimes, officers and nearly 200 men.
Minor Units
File-Two men.
Section-Cavalry four men. IN
fantry, one-eighth of a company,
(about 80 men. Artillery. two guns,
their crews and wagons. Medical
corps: Three Red Cross wagons,
their stretcher bearers, doctors and
orderlies.
Field ambulance-Three sec
tons of medical corps.
Platoon-A quarter company of
infantry.
Company-Royal engineers: be
tween $50 and 200 men. Army ser
vice corps: About 100.
Miscellaneous terms:
Train-Indicating all baggage and
impedmentia of an army which is not
carried with the first line transport.
Usually including water and small
arms and ammunition carts, cooks
carts of travelling kitchens.
Patrol-A accommodating cavalry
detachment, containing anything
from two men to a squadron.
Piquet-A term as elastic as pa
troll. Denoting an infantry guard in
front of a stationary army Of detach-
ment.
Outpost may consist of anything
from a company to a big force of all
arms. It's size and constitution are
determined by it's duties, which are
to ward off an enemy long enough to
allow the army in the rear to make
all its dispositions for defense or at
tack.
Advance Guard-Usually one-sixth
of the main army.
Corps-This word no longer des-
crfbes a British fighting unit, but is
used to describe regiments which
split into infntesimal parts, are dis
tributed all over fighting force, i. e..
army service corps, army veteri-
nary corps and army ordnance corps;
the last deals only with the material
of war, and furnishes everything
from filters to firearms.
Column-A force of any size on
the march. A division, for instance,
when making a strategical advance,
may move in two or three columns.
Wing and Flank-Usually inter
changeable terms, and denote the
right and left sides of an advancing
line of troops. no matter how deep
or how long that line may be.
Strategical-A term used with ref
erence to the process by which the
army is brought into the theater of
operations.
Tactical-A term applied to the
movement of troops, when in actual
contact with the enemy.
Covering Troops
A screen of troops of all arms is
pushed out in front Of each army to
feel for and get in touch with the
enemy, and to prevent him from get
ting and obtaining information. The
outermost fringe of this screen is
composed of cavalry split up into
small parties or patrols, which work
their way, if possible, into the heart
of the enemy's country gathering
and sending back information, pre-
venting the destruction of roads and
railways, which their own army will
want ito use, stopping the removal or
secretion of supplise, and a thousand
and one other things. In 1870 the
German cavalry screen was often so
miles ahead of the main armies. The
screen increases in strength from
front to rear, the advanced horsemen
being backed up by artillery and In
fantry, SO that in the event of a
check or an attempt by the enemy tc
penetrate the screen, force can be
Immediately concentrated for Of
fensive or defensive purposes.
Reconnaissance
"A complete force OF all arms
which may be anything from a bri
gade to an army corps, is sometimes
sent on a special mission to pene
trate, into the enemies country foI
the purpose of obtaining special in
/ when in touch with the enemy, at
tack him vigorously and compel hin
/ to expose his strength. Notable eX
amples of reconnaissance in fore
have been in the French dash to Mul
hansen and to Strassburg, and tn
operations of the Germans agains