The
practice is to get the range as communicated by the aeroplane, to
bring the artillery into position speedily, to discharge salvo
after salvo with all speed for a few minutes, and then to wheel
the artillery away before any hostile fire can be returned. The
celerity with which the British artillery comes into, and goes
out of, action has astonished even our own authorities. This
mobility is of unique value: it is taking advantage of a somewhat
slow-witted enemy with interest. By the time the Germans have
opened fire upon the point whence the British guns were
discharged, the latter have disappeared and are ready to let fly
from another point, some distance away, so that the hostile fire
is abortive. Mobility of such a character is decidedly unnerving
and baffling even to a quick-witted opponent.
In his search for hostile artillery the airman runs grave risks
and displays remarkable resource. It is invariably decided,
before he sets out, that he shall always return to a certain
altitude to communicate signals. Time after time the guns of the
enemy have been concealed so cunningly from aerial observation as
to pass unnoticed.
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