The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-03-12
N~ORTHCLIFFE SEES NEW
WONDERS OF WARFARE
Size of Guns Quintupled. Trenches Deeper, Germans
Using Gas Which Poisons Food-French
Artillerymen Show Superiority.

and instructions had evidently tecn
giNcn that the French should reply, ~
they usually do. with doubl or triple
pay
As In a shooting Gallery.
The French gunners searched the
Gerlnan trenches yard by yard just w
ono has seen an expert rifle shot pick of
bottle 10y bottle in n shooting gallery.
The idea that every bullet has It's billet
and every shell It's result I'm casualties Ia
OF course nonsense.
The modern artilleryman must have
the patience OF al angler and 4 supply
OF shells that demands tho services Of
hundreds OF miles Of light railways that
have now been constructed by both the
Allies and the Germans for the purpose
OF bringing these deadly KHAKI colored
cones OF death close up to the guns HEM
selves. At verdun tho bravery Of the
engine drivers Of these little trains has
been wonderful indeed. It IL such hon.
combatants as these with the surgeons
and stretcher bearers. who are, In my
opinion. among the real heroes Of the
war. like our mercantile marine. our
mine layers and our mine sweepers.
These gallant people do not get the
recognition they should.
Germsn TIE Reply.
For a long time the Germans at the
point I am describing didn't respond.
Then. whang. whang. wIhang. A rapping.
angry response came OF German tie.
which ara sbout the same ~ q good
British 3 nch gun. But the accuracy
In this particular CAS- WAS ccrtAinly
nothing like hat of the French. do
not belittle the German gunnery. ] was
at one point in the lines '0omewhere In
! France n a French artillery officer
pointed out with almost professional
pride "A French position which more than
one German shell had reached with re-
markable precision at . distance Of just
over six miles.
. the day before I had almost the
same experience. Five or six French
shells are exchanged for every Gernnrn
shell. but TINS fau does not give SUD-
port to the stupid notion We Oncc held
and which Was even circulated by MAJ
correspondents with the British army
that the Germans werc short Of ammura-
ton. But II does mean fhis, that the
allied defensive wall light acOs France
in so far a. attaining any definite mill
iary position is concerned ts absolutely
impreRnable.
The remark may equally apply &c
the German line across France and
i"h WV Ahos NC mp
for all We know. but there is this diner.
ence. that Germany is being deceived
and that even the feeble blockade thai
we have so far maintained has deprived
her soldiers of proper clothes and hei
citizens of certain necessities. Wherea,
the Allies are ~ freely supplied witt
everything AS In peace time.
Line Impossible.
1T is deeply to he regretted that th.
wonderful blockade established on lane
by the French. the English and the Bci
gians should not be as vigorously main
tanned at sea Nothing can get acros.
that wall Of trenches and barbed wire,
into the German lines except n shell o.
q bullet and here and there "A hant
grenade. But directly w get to sea
which VIC are supposed tn rule. and end
less commodities arc still pouring int
Germany. 80
The Germans want many thing,
with which We supply them and theii
soldiers need steel helmets. with which
the French army Is now practically en-
urely eQuipped-a most bl,
piece Of organization this. The German
saying that Everything goes TO tn
arrny" IN no doubt true. Much of IN.
German army. as ! have seen with m!
own eyes in German prisoners and de
s~erters, is now being clothed In mxteriA
not at all suitable for winter. An
not AN expert in clothing. but tho clot
seems to lack wool. 1t has y hard. DIR.
feeling.
"A typical German act tool place thi
week. When a French gunner succeede
in doing w-ha, Is very raFe in this war
finding a hidden German battery an
destroying II, within An hour. Obviousl
? after consultation with some hiGh au