A SHORT SUMMARY OF THE COYER QUESTION. 
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To employ indirect fire tlie use of the clinometer is a necessity. Not 
only is the clinometer in use in a large number of batteries unsatisfac¬ 
tory, but also, though prizes are given for good shooting, the greatest 
importance being attached to the results, in the competitions for which 
Scotts 5 sights, tangent sights, or clinometers may be used ; the 
conditions are so framed as to practically preclude the use of the latter. 
Further, let any unprejudiced person read page 12 o£ our drill-book 
and compare the importance assigned to cover (and consequently to 
indirect fire) with that given to it in the present drill-books of European 
armies, and I think he will allow that the idea is not without some 
justification. 
In conclusion, what I submitted for consideration was “ the issue of 
clear and detailed instructions for a uniform method of the occupation 
of positions behind cover so as to disclose the position of the guns as little 
as possible” a question I went into in my former paper. 
