Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-11-11
FIGHTING ADAP1S'
ITSELF TO NEW
CONDITIONS
At First Helpless Before Artillery and
Aerial Factors. Armies Are Now Bene-
fitting from Brains Which Set to Work
to Combat These Forces.

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London, Nov. 6.-Modern fighting
strategy. at first rather helpless before
the aerial and artillery factors, j. begin
ming 10 adapt itself 10 the new conditions
and along the great Ai-ne battle front
many fcrtiln brains nave been busy devils
ing scheme % meet these problems. Prob
ably the most useful work of the aero
plane has been the location of positions
and consequent direction Of artillery fire
often resulting in terrible losses to the at
tackled army.
According "a 4 distinguished London sur
geon, now serving a. q volunteer in the
Army Medical corps, the British troops
have become adopts NJ binding dummy
trenches 10 attract the enemy'S fire. These
trenches are thrown mp with great fidelity
and dummy figures and guns are left IN
them patiently awaiting the German aero
plane scouts. Believing he has discovered
n new position the aviator signals the
nearest German battery and a storm of
shells fall upon the unoccupied trenches.
Ii i usually only after a great waste OF
valuable ammunition that the trick j. dis
covered.
Another f~avorite device i the invcn-
tion of a British signaller whereby n helio-
graph can be operated at a distance of
two miles my means Of "A telegraph wire.
This Photograph begins to send out mes
sages purporting 10 cmanate from head
quarters staff and believing they have 10
Gated the brains OF the British army the
German artillery deVotcs it, attention To
the spot marked by the flashes from the
Photograph. Sometimes the Photograph y
destroyed. but usually the operator ceases
work when the fire becomes % heavy that
no staff IN it, senses would remain in the
vicinity. \ new apparatus Is set up in
some position where the staff would be-
likely To remove should 1t he driven from
the first selected place.
Along the front where the opposing
trenches are within 4 few hundred wards
of each other the allies have devised 4 ~vs-
tenn of tormenting the enemy by keeping
them awake at night. Regular skirrnish
details are selected each night and in "A
'hu NhiWlNH iHt iHeN duNdnft IL close
n possible and pour in 4 rafting fire.
The response J. almost instant and in such
volume a. 10 Indicate that the Germans
believe 4 general attack j. beginning. Sew
eral times during the night these tactics
are repeated.
The surgeon who has Just returned from
the front reports that contrary 10 the
usual belief the trenches are not very wet,
but he believes that with the coming of
the heavy winter rams conditions along
the Alsne will become terrible. The ten
sion Is already 20 great that many have
reached the swapping point until the in
sane ward al Nctlcy J. filled with %oficcr~
and soldiers who have lost their reason
when disease j. added 10 the terror of
battle.
One of the optimistic features of the
situation j. an Improvement in the trans
port Of the wounded from the battle front
to hospitals in England. a few weeks ago
II often took a. long a. three weeks Ia get
the wounded from the scene Of the fight
ing To Southampton and now the same trip
l. made IN three To four DAYS. This
speeding up has resulted in q great ac-
celeratIon IN the recovery Of the Danger