COAST ARTILLERY, JOURNAL - Air Defense Artillery

MILITARY NOTES 573
regiments of 120 modem guns in the artillery bombardment and to cover the
assault. Fragmentsof 3-inchtrench mortar projectiles,75-mm.shells, and 155-mm.
howitzershens were noted in the position,including high-explosiveshells, which is
unusual in Chinesewarfare.
The details of this action seem to mark a definiteadvancein Chinesewarfare
as in previous engagements artillery firing has not been very effective due to
extreme ranges and to lack of observationand adjustment. In addition Chinese
troops have rarely shown any initiative in the type of fighting usually necessary
to the storming of an entrenched position after an artillery preparation. In this
particular engagement, although there was probably very little counter-battery
firing and the ranges short against a very visible target, the results show an
excellent concentrationand adjustment of fire.
An army is a tra==::=~:~~.-l
at least for the individual. If he makes good it is I
acknowledged; if he does not make good. he i
shows it•••. For instance, anybody who is a
corporal or an officer or has any degree, whether
it be a high degree or only a corporal, has to have
a little executive ability. He has to order men
around. he has to make them do their task, he has
to make this one and that one do tms and that
thing, and he has to instruct them to do it. It gives
them a certain amount of efficiencyand an opportunity
to exercise it. which they otherwise would
not get. There is no donbt about it. when em.
ploying a man who is a corporal as a foreman. you
konw that he can handle his men; he has to; he
learns it there.-Dr. Theodore Christian.