Modern Warfare.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1702, 3 July 1885, Page 3

Modern Warfare.

I " Ivan "in the Anris says The exps;:e;;ce game - -n recent campaigning has 'big'- 1 rcvo:u!icirv,il uicinnskmry instruction I s:m utv.’l practice of the Untuh anny. The | '> •• !'• ,;u ?.•: -n target is hencel->r\vard 10 : ; : > ie y ; a u:!!-,rem appearance, and instead Oi imms-eyesaud cmUres, in the 'third class’ the target is to have a rough figure in black, to upK.-uita man painted on it. Kc-cruits .ou to file live rounds kneeling and five ' 1 ■ -t n r -onnJ 130 yards, and. then live kneeling and live lying down at non varus, li.o see'nd class target 'is to have three a- -I a res instead of one painted on it, and and recruits .arc to fire at goo and goo vards, lying down. Ad firing is to be with bayonets need, iho ' volley ’ target is to have six ncures in olack painted on it. What is mane I 1 ucience practice ' is also now introduced, at from geo to n-o vards distance, to- men aiming at the head or the foci of i.cures on to.e target, according to the ore been reached bv of i .o.oto. ia. i;:-,-. In ' atinek practice 1 tue aim is varied—ol ei.ursc in the reverse wav- as the firing part}- advances ‘ Veliev urnc now commences at boo yards, and b I'.- is;o Ixi a rush of about 75 yards made .Iter each volley, down to goo vards. Five r -umls aio to be fired between 263 and too yards, short •• rushes " of 25 yards between tool volley. Where possible, firing bv rap-;J section wdleys is to be practised, the owt.inccs being ,joo an 1 500 yards, the five rounds at each distance being delivered in 35SCCS. ’