INVISIBLE SNIPERS.

Taihape Daily Times, 13 November 1917, Page 2

INVISIBLE SNIPERS.

Describing the latest refinements of warfare; and especially' the ■ art of sniping Mr Edward Price Bell writes from the western front to the Chicago Daily News: “The trouble is to locate the sniper. He takes innumerable forms. There have been German snipers who were shocks of wheat, fallen trees, dead horses, and odd bits of landscape. The British sniper also is an extraordinary animal. “I have stood within twenty yards of three hidden -British snipers in 'No Man's Land’ and could not catch the faintest glimpse of any one of them, though there was not discernible the slightest cover of any kind “Like a bug that becomes the colour of the bark it feetls upon, these amazing soldiers are as motionless as the earth itself and absolutely assimilate themselves with the landscape, but their rifles speak sharply enough if a German head appears.”