“ MILITAR WOCHEEBLATT.” 
AN OBSERVATION LADDER FOR FIELD ARTILLERY. 
PRECIS BY 
Major E. S. MAY, R.A. 
This is an account of a means suggested for facilitating observation from bat¬ 
teries, which has also been made use of, with advantage, by Generals and Staff 
Officers. Although it may startle our notions a little, and offend some pre¬ 
judices, it appears to have met with considerable approbation both in Germany 
and Belgium, where it has been practically tested. A position will rarely 
combine advantages both for concealment and observation, and batteries may 
frequently find themselves pitted against an objective which is invisible from the 
guns. “ It has been felt for the past three years,” says our our German author, 
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