Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-06-09

been one in ten 10 the enemys There
are also failures Success requires
that every detail should work out
right. The British inaugurated trench
raiding which the Germans promptly
adapted Where its development will
end no one darcs venture 10 say. One
advantage of any raid is that those
who return are bound 10 bring back
some information of value to the in
tellisence corps.
Corset Saves Life.
Officers in the trenches as well as
officers in other military units usual
~ wear steel eorsets as a protection
against spent bullets
score one for the breastplate,'
said an officer who had been doubled
over by a shell fragment which hit
him in the abdomen. Instead of n
flow of blood crimsonins his blouse
all that was visible through the rent
In the cloth was an abrasion ON a
steel surface
But for your new corset 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 il be-
ing more and more worn by officers
Its structure adapts itself to the move
ments of the body, il weighs only "A
few pounds and, fitting snugly as a
vest, il is not cumbrous. If the son
Of Lord Shaughnessy, president of
the Canadian Pacific railway, who
was killed recently. had been wear
ing one his life might have been saw
ed, according to his comrades Since
then Canadian commanders have
strongly urged all their officers to
buy cOrselets.
Bullets Must BE spent.
The corselet is worse than no pro-
lection against bullets unless the lat
ter are spent. such Is their power
of penetration that they 20 through
the thin steel ''mushrooming and
making larger wound than if moth
ing had been in their way. But IN
the trenches, unless one shows his
head above the parapet and is NOV
ing about III the shell zone in the rear
of the trenches, one is rarely exposed
to bullets. When an officer goes into
charge in face Of machine gun ana
rifle fire he takes off his corselet.
on average DAYS in the trenches
the main danger Is from shrapnel bull
let's and fragments from shell explo-
sions which may inflict ugly and fatal
wounds preventable by comparatively
thin protection to such a vulnerable
substance as human flesh Together
corselet and a steel helmet pretty
effectively shield vital parts against
missiles of low velocity.
The use of the corselet is limited
virtually to officers who pay for them
out Of their own pockets The ex
pense and labor of supplying all ranks
of a great army with them would
seem out of the question. But grad
ualiy all the British soldiers are be-
ing supplied with the steel helmets
after their successful use by the
French, who first introduced them.
The French pattern is quite graceful
beside the British. which round and
something the shape of a toadstool.
The British is heavier than the
French and there is method in It's
soup plate grotesqueness. Thanks
to its form bullet which, strikes IT
in front instead of going through the
head as is the case with the French
helmet glances ana follows the inside
of the helmet passing out at the rear.