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TARGET PRACTICE IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



appearing and disappearing targets (figs. 27, 28). By the side 

 of them are laid the drag lines for the sleds on which are 

 brought np figure targets like fig. 43. At somewhat greater 

 distances, about 1,500 to 2,000 meters, are placed disappearing 

 full-length figures (fig. 30), and besides them sleds are kept 

 concealed. When the exercise is to begin, there are first 

 shown the disappearing full-length figures which, after they 

 come under effective fire, disappear. Then the sleds are put 

 in motion. If the ground is open, after the artillery fire has 

 become effective, the sleds can advance by rushes ; otherwise 

 the sleds move up at once to the line of figure targets most 

 remote from the firing point. The sleds stop and are metamor- 

 phosed into a firing line and the stationary figure targets 



Fig. 49. 



appear. After the fire has continued some time, or the 

 following sled has reached the firing line, all the sleds set 

 themselves in motion to the next figure line, which then 

 becomes visible, and the former line disappears. In this 

 manner the attack advances from line to line up to the most 

 advanced figure line. If the drag lines are laid around snatch 

 blocks about 100 meters from the firing point, even the final 

 assault can be represented. 



By similar means the retreat of an infantry force can be 

 represented. 



If the advance of a large body of cavalry is to be repre- 

 sented, six or eight sheet-iron runners are laid side by side 

 at distances of 4 meters and a great sled is built on them and 

 hauled by several drag lines (fig. 50). 



