Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-04-22
G r a p hi c Description of Fighting in African Be
 tween Opposing Armies.
PREPAREDNESS IS
 PRINCIPAL KEYNOTE
Infantry, Ready for Charge, Awaits Results of Showers of Shells From Big Guns, and Then Finds Re.
 SiStance at Minimum.

Correspondence Associated Press.9 London, April 15.-Thoroughness of preparation, coolness in execution and scientific accuracy in the di- | rection of artillery fire characterize modern battles as demonstrated in the last important conflict in the clearing of the German East Africa by British forces, according to an account of the battle of Rufiji river as related by Reuters special correspondent. This was the last campaign personally commanded by Majcr-General Jan Christian Shuts, the former Boer commander, and resulted in giving the British control of all the coast line and the inhabitable portion of German East Africa.
 For two weary months, writes Reu- ter's correspondent, the army lay upon it's weapons, consolidating, re- organizing, rebuilding railway lines and piling up great dumps of food and | ridding itself of it's sick and wounded. Then it moved forward from Moro- goro. The object of. the advance was the election of the senemy from his trenches on the Mgeta river and the seizure of the passages of the Rufiji river.
 The battle was directed and con- trclled from an observation hill at Dathumi but General Shuts spent lit tie time on the hill. He had made all l the dispositions and Issued his orders. Nothing remained for him to l do and he was back in his camp calm ly reading a book.
 In straw hut the brigadier gen
 eral sat at a. table on which was an oriented map showing the strategic and geographical points of the plains which law before us, at his elbow the telephone and just below the hut the 1 wireless instrument necessarily emft- ted sparks. Higher up the slope of the hill were the observing stations of the battery commanders.
 The burning of huts at Kiruru sig nailed the beginning of the battle The brigadier general, a polite little man has lectured at. the staff college for twenty years and who knows the last word fin the science of warfare, especially of artillery, called the how tiger battery by telephone. "Open fire a little to the right of the palm tree," he said "You have the elevation and direction. The Nigerians will be oh the move." Just behind the palm tree and a little to the right a great brown cloud of mud and smoke rose high in the air. From the plain came the boom of heavyE
 guns and all along the river branch | rose clouds of smoke, mud and dust. Bring Guns Into Action. ,,4; The staff officer handed in a tele-
 gram reading:
 "The infantry are now about to ad-
 vance; they ask artillery support" | Bring the field guns into action" said the general
 It was all so very matter of fact.
 This little man who was about to let l loose upon the German trenches a
 hell's broth of fire and disaster. acted | as if he were in his own drawing room, deciding how many Jumps of
 sugar he would take with his tea. In-
 deed, in the same breath that he di-
 rected the battles he discussed
 whether an extra can of sardines and
 tomatoes should be opened for break fast or whether he would be content
 with herrings.
 Down below on the plain the how
 itzers were lobbing sixty-pound shells
 into the German Askaris, the Nigeri-
 ans were advancing by sharp rushes
 and the rat-tat of the machine guns i and the crackle of musketry broke very faintly. Airplanes sailed over us. A message came from the Nigerians,
 i've are going to take the enemy's trenches; please lift gunfire." The l o10 Coll lift two degrees"
 Little black dots, like tiny ants. are
 running where the shells are burst ing. The Nigerians are rushing the
 trenches. The forward observing of-
 ficer reports that the enemy is re-
 tiring The fifteen-pounders. man.
 killing guns, shower shrapnel on the
 German line of retreat.
 The infantry report having occu-
 pied the German first line of trenches holting for one hour to consolidate.
 The brigadier general commented on
 the difficulty of observation in the
 humid atmosphere and suggested a
 cup of tea. It seemed that nothing
 more would happen until after lunch, so I visited the commander-in-chief.
 He was occupied for the moment with
 volume by George Gisslog and was
 satisfied with the reports he had re-
 ceived. By dark the whole of the Ger
 man entrenchments were in our
 hands. From a rag-time expedition,
 the army had developed into scien- l tific instrument of war"
 CUT THIS OUT-IT IS WORTH
 MONEY.