AUSTRIAN MOUNTAIN ARTILLERY IN BOSNIA. 
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The Austrians used advanced guards of from one-quarter to one-third 
of the strength of the column, and those had generally a mountain 
battery attached to them. On the 10th August, during the advance 
on Yranduk, the order of march of the 6th Division was as follows :— 
Advanced Guard 
(half-an-hour in advance 
of main body). 
1 battalion, 
1 mountain battery, 
2 engineer companies. 
Main Body. 
U pioneer company, 
1 battalion, 
2 light batteries, each with 
4 wagons (out of eight), 
2 battalions. 
Remaining ammunition wagons 
with the Train. 
A column was detached on either flank. 
Again, in Szapary’s advance on Dubosnica (7th August) the fol¬ 
lowing was the order of march :—- 
f 1 squadron, 
| 1 engineer company, 
,j 7 n j ! Infantry pioneers, 
Advanced Guard. < 7 , ,, s. 1 
I g battalion, 
I 1 battery (8 guns), 
l J battalion. 
( \ battalion, 
Main Body. < 2 batteries (16 guns), 
( 4 battalions. 
Bear Guard. 
\ battalion. 
Here the tendency is plainly shown to push guns even more to the 
front than was usual in 1870, and wherever a collision with the enemy 
was expected the advanced guard was always strongly reinforced in 
artillery; as, for instance, in the advance to Maglai on the 5th August, 
when two mountain batteries were told off to the advanced guard of 
two battalions, in the advance on Zepce on the 7th, when the advanced 
guard was again raised to the same strength, and was three-quarters 
of an hour in advance of the main body, consisting of four battalions 
and a field battery, and again in the march of the 7th Division 
on Banjaluka on the 81st July, when the advanced guard was also . 
strengthened by a mountain battery from the main body. 
Special escorts were, as usual, told oif to artillery *when they had to 
act independently of other troops; as in the action of Banjaluka, on 
the 14th August, when the half-battery accompanying the force sent 
from Berbir was pushed on 4 kilometres in front of the infantry, to 
relieve the hardly-pressed garrison. Infantry were mounted on the 
ammunition wagons, and a section of Uhlans accompanied the guns. 
It seems advisable always to provide a special escort of rifles or other 
