The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-09
STRATEGY EMBODIES GREAT
 MANY NEW IDEAS

CCorrespondence of Associ ated Press.)
 London Nov. 9.-Modern fighting strategy. at first rather helpless be- fore the aerial and artillery factors, | IS beginning to adapt itself to the new conditions and along the great Aisne battle front many fertile brains have been busy devising schemes to meet these problems. Probably the most useful work of the aeropIane has been the location of positions and conse- quent direction of artillery fire often resulting in terrible losses to the att tackled army.
 According to a distinguished London surgeon, now serving as a volunteer in the Army Medical Corps the Brit ish troops have become adopts at the nemy's fire. These trenches are thrown up with great fidelity and dummy figures and guns are left in them, patiently awaiting the Germa~ aeroplane scouts Believing he has discovered a new position the aviatao1, signals to the nearest German bat tery, andNa storm of shell fall upon the unoccupied trenches. It is usual ly after a. great waste of valuable ana-
 nunition that the trick is discovered.
 Another favorite device is the in vention of a British signa1ler whereby a. heliograph can be operated at distance of two miles by mea ns of a telegraph wire. This heIiograph be- gins to send out messages purp porting to emanatae from headquarters sta, if and believing they have located the brains of the English army, the Ger man artillery devotes it's attention to the spot marked by the flashes from the heliograph. Sometimes the heli- ograph is destroyed, but usually the operator ceases work when the fire becomes so heavy that no staff in its senses would remain in the vicinity.
 
 l sition where the staff would be likely to remove should it be driven from the first selected place.
 Along the front where the oppos- ing trenches are within a. few hundred years of each other, the allies have enemy, by keeping them awake al night. Regular slxirmish details are selected at night, and in a thin skir- mish line they advance as close as possible and pour ins a. rattling fire. The response is alrnost instant and in such volume as to indicate that the Germans believe general attack is beginning. Several times during the night these tactics are repeated.
 The surgeon who has just returned from the front reports that contrary to the usual belief the trenches are not very wet. but he believes that with the coming of the heavy winter. rains conditions along the Aisne will be- come terrible The tension is already so great that many have feached the snapping point until the insane ward at Netley is filled with officers and soldiers who have lost their reason when disease is added to the terror of battle.
 One of the optimistic features of tne situation is an improvement in the transport of the wounded from the battle front to hospitals in England. ! Two weeks ago it often took as long as three weeks to get the wounded from the scene of the wounded to Southamptons and now the same trip is made in three to four days. This speeding up has resulted in a great acceleration in the recovery of the dangerously wounded, for they reach the hospitals within the period of in-, lection