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ACHIEVEMENTS OF FIELD ARTILLERY. 
to Metz. 178,818 Germans liad succeeded in driving 180,000 French 
out of a position of almost unrivalled natural advantages. During the 
battle the artillery had vied with its sister arm in heroism, and assuredly 
could lay claim to a most important share in the glories of a victory 
which, decisive in itself, was yet but the culminating point of the 
success achieved two days earlier mainly by its bold and enterprising 
behaviour. 
Nor were the services of the German guns unrecognised in the 
official account which, deliberately reviewing the incidents of the fight, 
kindles for a moment to eulogise the manner in which they were em¬ 
ployed, “ at first in masses, and afterwards in the most intimate 
connection with the task of the infantry/'' 
{To be Continued.) 
