The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-01-10

ly all goes we'll Each man has his
part to do and does It. The speed
required Is that of downtown daily
getting out an extra on Wall street
smash.
| Map making rests on the airy foun-
dalton of the flying squadron. Each
day, rain or shine. the British observ-
ing planes go over the German lines.
That they may do so whole organi-
zation Of offense and defense is re-
quired. Fighting planes go with the
observing machines. though the latter
also fight when it Is required. The
enemy seeks to repel observers by
means Of fighting machines and anti
aircraft guns. To turn back the en-
envy machines more fighting machines
and more anti aircraft guns are re-
quired. That Is an old story.
Photographs Tell Story.
When the observers get the infor-
nation they want, either by the eye
or the camera, they return to camp
Their observations are checked and
telephoned to Intelligence" If they
have taken photographs The plates
are developed and these photographs
are checked. BY and by the experts
know just what changes the past "a
hours have produced on the enemy
front. Here battery has been out
ed" There a suspicious spot on the
photograph shows where another has
been hidden. ] have examined some
of these spots under a glass and
found them innocent of all evil. To
the expert eye they reeked with devil /.
try.
Somewhere back of the line Intel
ligence" has a map making plant. The
days harvest of indications is sent in
by telephone or otherwise, and in the
most minute detail. Each map is
subdivided crosswise in the familiar
map fashion, and each subdivision is
sub divided. Each pin point of area
is accounted for. To move pin point
representing gun cabin a pin points
length either way means faulty bat
terry work next day. SO this must moi
happen. The maps are printed from
stones, and the changes are made or
them rapidly. Then they so to the
presses. The altered maps must bt
on the firing line by dawn.
Startled by Barrage Maps.
Even that does not startle me like
the barrage maps" said an American
) officer.
Now and then-when the fight i.
well Overcome may get glimpse o.
these barrage maps. Everyone, il
these days when each family has it.
own war expert, knows what bar
rage is. 1t is necessary in order tina
the barrage shall be wholly effectiv,
for the men to follow it very closely
They keep their noses in it," as til.
men say, The ideal distance is l.
yards from the edge of the area GOV
cred by the fragments of the BURSTING
shells, To follow a barrage so close
ly means an occasional casualty, o
course, but it also means the boch'
can not put up head within the ares
being swept by that deadly broom.
To the outsider that simply mean!
that the gun muzzles are lifted slight
ly at each discharge, in order that thu
next point of shell impact shall b,
precisely the distance beyond the las
point which men can walk in the tim,
allotted. Actually the problem is NOR,
complicated Here the men mus
climb a steep hill. There they de
scend q slope. At this point they arr
held up by a marsh and over here b!
creek. and on the right they ma,
walk fast across level ground. Tn,
speed of the walking men varies OF
the different parts of the line Gin &C
cordance with the nature of the ter
rain.
Mistakes Are Fatal.
Hence the map which is put befor,
the commanding officer of each bat
terry. On the background of the maj
the British trenches and the enem,
trenches are shown in the least de.
tail by red lines. Overprinted are the
lines which the barrage fire must fol
low. swinging and dipping as the
land does. and each marked with the
precise time and distance from it.
neighboring lines. Once a charge
starts there is no holding it back, ant
no communicating with it. If the mer
walk into the barrage they are cut
down, and they have no way of know.
ing they are walking into it until af-
ter they have been cut down. If the
barrage precedes them too rapidly. il
passes over the German trenches, and
the alert German thrusts his head
out of his hole and finds that he is ar
area of safety--and then perdition
pops.
1.-THE hardest thing we will have to
do will be to learn how to make bar
rage MAPS" said an American officer
THAT job is science sublimated."