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LECTURES FOR N.-C.O. AND MEN OF FIELD ARTILLERY. 
knowledge of skill in shooting gives the men. Sedan, importance of 
ammunition supply; importance of artillery being able to make long 
advances at trot; on roads; even pace; horses in wind; difficulty of 
observing fire ; Gravelotte ; Sedan ; disturbing elements in war, &c., &c. 
ioth Lecture. Smokeless powder. — Its effect on the action of infantry, cavalry, and 
artillery in the attack; on the defensive. 
Artillery gain by it; no smoke to obscure aim or enemy ; guns can be 
closer and in tiers ; difficult to make out a well-posted battery ; element 
of uncertainty and bewilderment ; weight; effect on gun ; smell. 
Read extracts from “Journal” of TJ.S. Institution, on “Smoke¬ 
less Powder and German Manoeuvres. - ” 
Remarks on Future Warfare.—Battles will be won only with great 
loss of life; cover training for infantry bad if carried too far. Germans 
recognise this; attack bound to cost life. Infantry must be trained to 
press on in lines fed from rear; reserves advancing in strict discipline ; 
drums ; colours; effect of drill and discipline. After 500 yards a decision 
one way or another. Artillery must share equally losses of infantry in 
attack. 
Smokeless powder advantage to the traditional fighting of British in¬ 
fantry ; concluding remarks. Lectures intended to show men how three 
arms are connected. Artillerymen should know something of fighting 
of infantry, the backbone of the army ; the artillery being its right 
hand, cavalry (head) eyes. A battery must be able to move without 
impairing efficiency; must shoot well in action; fire discipline must 
do the rest. 
Peace, the preparation for war; drill a- means of discipline ; discip¬ 
line is obedience to will of superior; fire discipline obedience under 
fire. A battery in action is a machine, the C.O. by his will sets it in 
motion, stops it, makes it work quick, slow, moves it about. This can 
only be efficiently done by the works being in good order, and by 
each particular part of the works doing its share. 
Karachi, 
June—July, 1892. 
