Photograph by Paul Thompson 



ISSUING A FOOD TICKET TO TOMMY ATKINS 



The offices of the Gare du Nord, Paris, have been converted to the uses of organizations 

 for the relief of suffering among the refugees and victims of the war. A British soldier is 

 seen accepting an order for a meal. 



The phrase means, in untechnical lan- 

 guage, the art of aiming a mass of cannon 

 in a manner that the projectiles from all 

 of them fall in a given area in such a 

 shower as to form a curtain or barrage 

 of exploding iron. 



This curtain may be dropped behind 

 an enemy position so that reinforcements 

 cannot come to his aid when attacked, or 

 it may be used to check an advance. 



Tilt; SYNCHRONIZED FIRE OF 4OO GUNS 



Accurately to synchronize the action of 

 50 or 100 batteries, 200 or 400 guns, so 

 that while tiring from widely separated 

 positions at a target that is not in view 

 the projectiles arrive simultaneously along 

 a denned and predetermined line, is a 



matter of the highest technical skill and 

 calculation. To the French belongs the 

 honor of first employing this effective 

 artillery principle. 



I have seen these great pieces of ord- 

 nance, equal in size to the major guns of 

 a battleship, moving from point to point 

 along specially built lines of lateral rail- 

 roads, running in rear of the trench posi- 

 tion on the Somme. At the will of the 

 commander they are brought into action 

 wherever the press of battle warrants. 



This development and operation of ar- 

 tillery is the most impressive manifesta- 

 tion of the colossal expansion of modern 

 war. Consider the tons of metal molded 

 into each of these great cannon, and then 

 reflect that wherever the trucks upon 



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