4, OKEHAMPION EXPERIENCES, 1894, 
With both methods it sometimes happened that a flank section, even 
if run up to the safe limit, was still unable to see the target. When 
this is the case, and there is room on the other flank, the easiest 
way out of the difficulty appeared to be for the section to be limbered 
up and moved round, fire in the meantime being continued with the 
other guns. Should this be impossible, clinometer elevation must be 
given to the section, the angle of sight being obtained from one of the 
guns that can see the target. This method with our present clinometer 
is very complicated, as it entails two different elevations in the battery, 
and under such conditions it is very easy for the Battery Commander 
to make a slip. With a clinometer having an adjustable zero, such as 
the German or Scott’s sight, fitted as recommended last year, it is 
comparatively simple. All the Section Commander would have to do 
would be to set it at the 7 elevation, place it on one of the guns that 
could see the target after it was laid, and automatically register the 
angle of sight by working the small screw until the bubble is in the 
centre ofitsrun. The Battery Commander, thus relieved of all trouble, 
could begin with four guns, and the other two would be ready to open 
fire by the time he had ranged. 
Failing such a clinometer, the best way appears to be to ignore the 
angle of sight and use clinometer elevation for all the guns, only planting 
pickets for those that cannot see the target, the remainder laying for 
direction over the vent and muzzle. 
The method of one section using quadrant and the remainder T ele- 
vation was successfully employed by one Battery Commander; on all 
the other occasions, as far as I know, the guns simply remained out of 
action. Seeing this happen with a single Brigade-division on posi- 
tions so well known, it seems probable that with a long line, sections 
or even, perhaps, batteries could easily find themselves so situated 
that they must either have recourse to pickets or remain silent. 
At Brigade practice, when employing the direct method, the inter- 
vals between batteries sometimes suffered, and appeared to be best kept 
when the final advance was done in short echelon; this was especially 
noticeable in those cases in which, owing to the lie of the ground, the 
line of advance was not quite at right-angles to the position to be occu- 
ied. 
; The system, mentioned last year, of the Battery Commander pointing 
out the target to the nearest Section Commander, and leaving the 
others to pick it up from him, again answered well. In pointing it 
out to the nearest Section Commander, the best and quickest was 
generally for the Battery Commander to lay the first gun. 
Misunderstandings of right and left were very rare ; in fact, I only 
heard of one, due, I believe, to the words ‘‘enemy’s left”? being mis- 
taken. ‘There was more doubt when numbers were employed, and one 
heard such questions as, “ His own number two, or do you mean num- 
ber two from the right ?”? It would tend to obviate these if all numbers 
were to be as read, 7.e., left to right, or else that the numbers were al- 
ways to begin from the firer’s right. 
SIGNALS AND ORDERS. 
A few batteries used a number of extra signals. It appeared, however, 
