SWEDEN. 167 



officers in command, and is responsible for order on the firing 

 ground, and for the record of the results of firing. 



The education in the school is as follows : 



For the officers ordered to take the course. — Shooting drills 

 with field pieces in battery and in division, and shooting drills 

 with revolver. 



Besides this, the chief lays out a course of short lectures by 

 the officers, illustrated, if possible, by examples, explaining 

 the shooting regulations, the method of shooting with field 

 artillery in foreign countries, the construction and use of 

 the distance measurer, fire tactics, etc. 



With the instruction battery. — Theoretical education, as a 

 necessary preparation for, or explanation of, the practical 

 drills ; drills with the field pieces in connection with aiming 

 drills, partly under difficult circumstances; shooting drills 

 with field pieces; drills in accurate management of the gun, 

 the mechanism and the ammunition; shooting drills with 

 revolver; setting up telephone wires and telephoning; field 

 fortification drills; the use of maps on the terrain, and the 

 solution of tactical problems. 



In the shooting drills with guns in battery attended by the 

 officers, the regimental officers act as leaders under tlie super- 

 vision of the chief of the school, the captains act as battery 

 commanders; the chiefs of section ordered to the instruction 

 battery, commonly as chiefs of section; the sergeants ordered 

 to the same battery (with the exception of the battalion adju- 

 tant) alternately as commanding the fourth section, if chiefs 

 of piece, or, as the chief of the school so directs, as chiefs of 

 section ; and the constables ordered to the same battery serve 

 in turn as chiefs of piece. 



The division shooting takes })lace when the underofficers' 

 schools of the first and second Svea regiments (artillery) are 

 placed at the disposal of the chief of the school by general 

 order, and at these exercises the division is commanded in 

 turn by the regimental officers ordered to the course, and 

 the instruction battery and the underofficers' school batteries 

 by the officers attending the school. 



Other Regulations. — The ammunition allotted each year 

 by a general order for the exercises of this school is supplied 

 from the magazine at Marma, when required by the chief of 

 the school. 



The personnel ordered to the school receive pay according 

 to regulations and the budget for the scliool. 



