COAST ARTILLERY IN ACTION. 1738 
Lievt.-Cotonet J. R. J. Jocenyn—Well, Sir, I do not think there is much 
to detain you with. 
Colonel Rainsford-Hannay was not quite satisfied with my remarks about firing 
at two targets. I entirely agree with what he himself said, so I must have 
expressed myself indistinctly. What I meant was, that when two targets are 
simultaneously engaged by one battery command, the question of smoke must be 
carefully considered. My own procedure would be, salvos from the leeward 
flank, first at one target and afterwards at the second. 
With regard to our future practice targets, I do not know whether Colonel 
Bingham told him that he has made a little step in advance this year by hauling 
the target in with a pulley, which is distinctly interesting. 
With regard to the telephone, I think there is a good deal to be said about the 
poor telephone. I do not think it has quite had a fair trial. The Ader telephone 
is a telephone for an office; the receiver is allright ; it is the wooden transmitter 
that is the annoying thing, if you have the Ader telephone. The telegraph I am 
a little doubtful of myself. 
Tam glad that Major Hansard is working at the corrections. Iam sure that 
we all ought to work at this subject. With the depression range-finder I do not 
see how the corrections are going to be given, at present, in the case of a quick 
target, but when we have a position-finder installed, it can, I think, be done. 
I sympathise most fully with every word that Colonel Rainsford-Hannay has 
said about the Garrison Gunner. It was not of him and his work that I spoke, 
it was more a question of battery organization. Major Barron informed me of 
some excellent results that he obtained at Malta, by the system I hinted at, and I 
thought, if opportunity were allowed them, the Garrison Artillery might carry this 
out elsewhere. 
Lastly, with regard to Major Stone’s remarks about surveillance. I did not mean 
that the Fire Commander at Z should go and interfere with the fire of the Battery 
Commander at 7, he is not in a position to do so; I merely meant that, were it 
not for the conformation of the ground the guns at H, and F would have formed 
part of his command, so, though he cannot control them in action, he can and 
should carry out the other functions of his office in regard to them Gig, I, I 
have nothing further to say.2 
THE CuarrmaNn—It only remains for me then to thank Colonel Jocelyn for 
the lecture which he has so kindly and so ably given us.—(Applause). 
1T have been permitted to see the remarks which Major Holden, Captain Lowe, and Lieutenant 
Buckle have been good enough to add to the discussion, and I congratulate myself that such 
valuable matter should be attached toa paper bearing my name; I think they contain special 
information of very great interest, that in no way calls for comment from me.—J.R.J.J, 
