A MILITARY WRINKLE.
; General Newdigate, in a speech the other clay on distributing prizes to a company of volunteers, i;safd rthat, he' ■particularly disliked independent firing in action. After a few rounds had been fired the smoke was so great that men could not see what they were firing at. The enemy’s bullets'WereFdropping in, knocking over one man and another; and the effect was to make them fire harder and harder without taking aim. Such fire was of no use. Men get clemdralysed, and it was impossible to stop them until their ammunition was exhausted. He recommended volunteers, therefore, to practise volley-firing, for noifirihg“was 'id effective.”’ Evidently General Newdigate, speaking with what he has seen on actual service fresh in his memory, is of opinion that volleyfiring should he the kind of firing niainly used -in Rattle-. •; On the,, Other hand, in the hand-book of modern tactics edited by the superintending officers of garrison instruction, it is laid 4own that “use of vollcyffiring must he looked on as the exception, and that of independent firing as the rule, in all infantry combat.” , M r hich,.of .tike, two opinions is to be accepted P
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2128, 17 January 1880, Page 3
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193A MILITARY WRINKLE. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2128, 17 January 1880, Page 3
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