Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1916-06-16

accurate sprays OF destruction on Civ
en- points. They cover the rush and
they cover the return OF the raiders
with their prisoners.
But the guns are not all; there arc
all kinds OF organized trickery in or.
der to enable n body OF soldiers to get
into the enemy's trenches for n few
minutes OF activity. when the invaded
throw themselves on their invaders at
such close quarters that II is a ques.
lion II even a revolver Is now a prac.
teal weapon.
You canno throw II over a traverse
and you can a bomb. Running into
a German around the corner OF a
traverse, a blow may be better than q
shot.
There have been trench raids where
every man who went out was respon.
sible for a casualty or a prisoner,
while the raiders own loss was not
n in ten to the enemy's. There are
also failures.
Success requires that every detail
should work out right. The British
l~naugurated trench raiding. which the
Germans promptly adapted. Where
It's development will end no one dares
venture to say. One advantage of my
raid is that those who return are
bound TO bring back some information
OF value 90 the intelligence corps.
Steel corsets Save Lives.
Score one for breastplates." said
an officer who had been doubled over
by n shell fragment which hit him in
the abdomen. Instead OF a flow OF
blood crimsonlng his blouse, all that
was visible through the rent in the
cloth was m abrasion on n steel sur
face.
But for your new corset your aorta
would have been opened. and you
would have been dead by now" the
surgeon told him.
Early In the war an officer who wore
protection OF this kind would have
been frowned on by his fellows as
unsoldierly. A type OF corselet Of
small plates of highly tempered steel
Joined together by steel wires Ia be.
ing more and more worn by officers.
Its structure adapts Itself to the
movements OF the body. II weighs only
a few pounds. and. fitting snugly as
n vest. II is not cumbrous. II the son
OF Lord ~Shaughnessy, president Of the
Canadian Pacific. who was killed re-
Gently. had been wearing one, his life
would have been saved. Since then
Canadian commanders have strongly
urged all their officers TO buy corse.
lets. This Is at any rate better
than no protection against bullets, I'M
less they are spent. Such is their
power OF penetration that they go
through the thin steel. mushroom.
Ing" and making a larger wand than
II nothing had been I'm their way. But
In the trenches, unless one shows his
head above the parapet and In moving
about IN the shell zone in the rear OF
the trenches. n Ia rarely exposed to
bullets. When an officer goes into a
charge In face OF machine gun and
rifle IRE he takes OF his corselet.
On average days IN the trenches
the main danger is from shrapnel bul.
- 80" '"hhi'hAo llbih hntll tAplO-
sions, which may innict ugly and fatal
wounds ~preventable by comparatively
thin protection to such a vulnerable
substance as human flesh. Together
a corselet and steel helmet pretty well
shield vital parts from missiles OF low
velocity.
The use OF the corselet is practical.
ly limited to officers, who pay for
them out Of their W pockets. The
expense and labor OF supplying all
ranks Of a great army with them
would seem out OF the question.
But gradually all the British sol.
D'ors are being supplied with the
steel helmet after their successful use
by the French, who first introduced
them. The French pattern ls quite
graceful beside the British. which is
round and somewhat the shape OF a
toadstool, Tho British is heavier
than the French, and there IL method
IN us soup plate grotesQueness. Thanks
TO to form a bullet which strikes II
front, instead OF going through the
hoad as Is the case with the French
helmet, Flances and follows the inside