CASUALTY RETURNS OF TIE GERMAN ARTILLERY. 543 
Field Artillery. An organization of the ammunition columns, which 
will provide for the distinct and separate supply of Horse and Field 
Artillery, will become a necessity upon the introduction of a different 
gun and different ammunition for the two services, and thus the way 
will be paved for any action which may be necessary on the field for 
ensuring the earliest possible supply of reserve ammunition to the 
Horse Artillery. These remarks, as to a separate organization of the 
reserve ammunition supply, apply only to the Corps Artillery, which is 
the only “ mixed” Artillery unit. 
As regards casualties to men and horses, the same law seems to hold 
in a greater or less degree, and for the same reason. ‘The following 
table of ratios is illustrative of the proportion of horses to men in the 
Horse and Field Batteries respectively, and of the average propor- 
tionate losses. 
Tasle IV. 
Men Horses 
Proportion of horses to men on the estab- ( Horse Battery ... 1 .. 1°84 
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Proportion of casualties as between horses ( Horse Battery ... 1 ... 1°38 
and men, and calculating by averages ( Field Battery ... 1 ... 0°85 
From this it will be seen that the casualties in men and horses 
respectively, when calculated on the basis of percentage of strength, 
show relatively a greater loss in men than horses. 
The data regarding the expenditure of case shot, point to the fact 
that its use is of so accidental a nature that no deductions can be drawn 
as to its being more likely to be used by one branch than the other. 
Similarly, the casualties to wheels and poles appear to be so rare in 
occurrence, and of so chance a description, that it is impossible to say 
that one branch is more likely to suffer than the other in this respect. 
I have previously alluded to the fact that four batteries were en- 
gaged in all three actions, let us see what proportion the average 
casualties per battle in each of these batteries bear to the total average 
casualties of all the batteries. 
TABLE V. 
Rounds Men Horses Wheels Poles 
Average for the four 
batteries which were OL ae jacam eat). Mosae UW) Roa . OTe SNS 
engaged in each battle 
Mean average for all 
the batteries, as per ONB nog cog NS Sto I DE 
Table I. ae 
This table, as we might have expected, does not show any special 
features in regard to the casualties to men and horses in the batteries 
which were engaged in three successive engagements ; the ratio, as 
regards proportion of horses to men is slightly higher, which is what 
one might reasonably anticipate, as many horses must have succumbed 
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