202 TARGET PRACTICE IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



Besides the foregoing, there is allowed for obligatory prac- 

 tice at the shooting stands and paid to the societies on their 

 returns of practice : 



Kiancs. 



For each man carrying the rifle or carbine. 1.50 



For each man carrying a revolver 3.00 



There are other subsidies to these shooting societies encour- 

 aging additional voluntary practice for men held to military 

 service, also for all citizens of the country. 



AMMUNITION ALLOWANCE FOR MACHINE-GUNS. 



Machine-guns, Maxims: Cartridges. 



For recruit school 60,000 



For cours de repetition, per company with 8 guns 15, 000 



ARTILLERY. 



The schools of recruits for field and mountain artillery de- 

 vote mnch time to target practice, using as targets the same 

 forms as the field targets for infantry, grouped in sections or 

 companies, sometimes in column, then again in line, close or 

 extended order; those representing artillery usually in bat- 

 tery. Infantry sections are formed and mounted on wheels 

 with a long cable attached which is deflected by pulleys and 

 by means of horses ; these targets are made to move at varying 

 rates, while the artillery fire at them. Practice is given at 

 known and unknown distances, from short to extreme ranges 

 for the guns employed, including the methods of getting the 

 range with both time and percussion shells. 



Similar practice is given the recruits for position and for- 

 tress artillery. 



The following is the allowance of ammunition for field and 

 mountain batteries : 



Shell. Shrapnel. 



For each school of recruits with two batteries 300 770 



For each battery in cours de repetition without maneii- 



ver 60 440 



For each battery in cours de repetition with maneuver 360 



At the maneuvers a quantity of blank ammunition is con- 

 sumed, prescribed in orders, each year. 



Note. — The Neue Militiirische Blatter, Berlin, January 1, 1901, says: 

 "There are no firing schools, as the term is understood in Germany, in the 

 militia system of Switzerland. Lieutenants of infantry are required to 

 complete a four weeks' course at a so-called firing school, during which 

 they are instructed both theoretically and practically in individual and 



