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THE VALUE OF MOBILITY FOR FIELD ARTILLERY. 
When, therefore, the German General Staff hold up the mobility and 
concentration of their batteries at Loigny-Poupry to admiration, they 
remind us, though not intentionally, that these two features in the 
performance were complementary to one another, and that those six 
batteries of the 22nd Division could not have been rapidly and deci¬ 
sively carried out of one battle into another, had they not been held 
well in hand by a capable leader with a firm grasp of his command. 
Neither could the two Bavarian Horse Artillery Batteries have the 
brilliant march they did and have joined themselves on to the other 
three to form that mass of guns to the south of Nonneville, had they 
not been possessed of the other quality to which concentration in the 
other instance gave its opportunity. 
So that we ought to remember that although artillery is the arm 
which acts by fire alone, to reach complete efficiency it must study 
something more than questions of gunnery although they must be al¬ 
ways its first care. Position and the getting into position is a factor 
in success, the value of wdiich it would be difficult to exaggerate. 
Combination, and that, too, in its widest term—combination of its 
various component parts, and combination with the other arms—must 
form a no less important subject of attention. 
