GERMANY. 07 



Advantage is to be taken of rolling ground by placing fixed 

 targets so that tliey may become suddenly visible to the 

 attacking line. 



DISAPPEARING AND MOVING TARGETS. 



On permanent ranges various figures are arranged as dis- 

 appearing or moving targets, and are manipulated from cov- 

 ers not noticeable from the front. A target representing a 

 line of infantry 100 meters long may be erected in ten minutes 

 by eight men and be worked by one man. Its construction 

 is simple, pieces of dimension stuff about 18 feet long, 2^ 

 inches thick, and 3 inches wide are pinned together at the 

 ends to make the continuous base required. These rest at 

 the joinings on wooden sills and are kept in position by small 

 stakes driven in the ground. To the front edge of the base 

 are fastened the targets (head, bust, etc.) ; the end of the base 

 projects into the shelter and is provided with a handle by 

 turning which the targets can be turned over on the ground, 

 or turned up into view, as may be required. Similar targets 

 can be constructed on both sides of the cover, which might 

 then be the center of a target 200 meters long. To represent 

 the reenforcement or thinning of a line, two or more of such 

 lines of targets are placed close to each other. In such cases 

 the figures in the rear must show through intervals in those 

 in front. The lines of targets are turned up or down to show 

 reenforcement or losses, the first line turned forward and the 

 rear targets backward, so as to allow the lines to be placed 

 close together. In a final charge, to facilitate the counting 

 of hits, each line has the figures placed close together and the 

 line which has been fired on is turned down and a fresh one 

 turned up. The same object may be attained in the use of 

 one line of timbers by nailing figures to three of the faces. 

 In this case a trench must run under the target to allow the 

 revolving of the figures. The advance of a line or groups of 

 men may be shown with this arrangement by having the head 

 figures on one face, bust or trunk figures on the second, and 

 knee or full figures on the third, each appearing in succession, 

 as the targets are turned. 



Balloon targets used to represent lines of sharpshooters 

 lying in a trench are made of air-tight cloth cylinders about 

 10 inches high and 8 inches in diameter. They are attached 

 at intervals to the base timbers. The target is arranged 

 about as described for the line targets, the base being laid in 



