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much as possible, from all cares not immediately bearing on the 
administration of fire and, in the arrangement of drill, every facility 
must be given him, especially as regards the communication of his 
orders. To this end the introduction of a drill by signal has done 
much, in doubly enforcing to him the attention of the Section Officers. 
More may perhaps yet be done, to arrive quickly at an effective fire 
by careful range-taking and preliminary reconnaissance, to increase 
the accuracy of fire by the higher training of layers and to ensure 
sustained accuracy by the application of mechanical means, such as 
clinometers, giving sustained uniformity of laying. 
The administration of fire under the modern system has been 
stigmatised as a “ one-man job but, if that man be as efficient as he 
should be surely the concentrated energy of his blow must be greater 
than that of several minor and dispersed efforts. That concentration 
can only be effected and upheld by Fire Discipline. 
