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to utilize these roads, or will not be able to utilize them, then we
can destroy them.
6. POINTS FOR ATTENTION IN
DESTROYING ROUTES OF COMMUNICATION
If we want to destroy routes of communication, we must be thoroughly
familiar with the terrain. It is only then that, moving rapidly
and elusively, we appear suddenly and quickly withdraw. In
eliminating the enemy’s sentries, we must not fire a shot, in order
not to alert them and give them a chance to flee.
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TO MAO
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the enemy has been reported, in order to keep an eye on the enemy’s
7. PRECAUTIONS WHEN BEGINNING
THE DESTRUCTION OF ROUTES OF COMMUNICATION
When we begin the destruction of routes of communication, we
must first send out a detachment to the place where the presence of
patrols and his small detachments, so that they cannot quickly and
secretly get close to the point where our own unit is at work. If,
while beginning work, we are discovered by the enemy, we should
shoot at him to keep him from coming nearer.
NOT FOR
COMMERCIAL
8. METHODS OF DESTROYING WORKS ON THE GROUND
DISTRIBUTION
1. Railroads should be destroyed at the points where they are
most difficult to repair, such as at curves, at points where the railway
is hidden from view, where the enemy’s precautions are lax,
where we can work under cover, or where we can destroy a large
length of track. When destroying the rails, we should bend them, or
hollow out the ground beneath them. In low-laying places we should
dig ditches. As for tunnels, we should obstruct them.
2. Railroad ties, wooden bridges, telegraph and telephone poles,
etc., should be burned up. Wires should be carried away or dropped
into the water.
3. Signals switches, semaphores, railroad carriages, etc., located
in the stations should be destroyed, preferably by blowing them up