Trench Life and Trench Warfare.
1.—What inspections should be made on the day before the relief?
2.—State orders to be issued one hour before departure.
3.—What may be the marching orders, on the way to the trenches?
4.—Describe precautions to be taken against enemy's fire, against aeroplanes.
5.—What other precautions should be taken?
6.—What should the company commander attend to on reaching the trenches?
7.—What possible improvements of trenches are obviously called for?
8.—What special attention should be given the parapet?
9.—Give rules for drainage and sanitation.
10.—What precautions may be taken against capture of fire-trench?
11.—What does trench warfare correspond to in open warfare?
12.—What does the safety of a sector depend on?
13.—What is the fundamental duty in trench warfare?
14.—What rule determines the number of men to be posted in the fire-trench?
15.—Sum up their orders about firing before open terrain, before covered terrain.
16.—What is meant by double sentinels?
17.—Why is listening attentively even more important than keeping a sharp look out?
18.—Why should the sentinels refrain from answering the enemy's fire?
19.—What is expected of the men in the listening posts?
20.—When should the sentinels fire on a clear night? When, on a dark night?
21.—What should the sentinels do, if they hear the enemy's digging?
22.—When and where are sharpshooters posted and what is their duty?
23.—What information may patrols bring back?
24.—When should patrols be sent out and how should they be assigned?
25.—What should the sentinels along a sector know about the patrols, and the several possible patrols know about one another?
26.—Describe dress and equipment of men on patrols.
27.—Describe their method of advance.
28.—What should they do on encountering a hostile patrol?
29.—What should be the motto of men on patrol?
30.—What are some of the most useful informations about the enemy, you should try to obtain?
31.—What motto should you have about ammunition?
32.—Describe several ways of leading enemy to waste ammunition.
33.—What is the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate ruses?
34.—On what principle is the enemy's ruse of the use of blank cartridges based?
35.—How may this ruse be foiled?
36.—What should the sentinels, and what should the men on patrol do, when the enemy sends up flares?
37.—How should the enemy's machine gun fire be answered?
An Enemy's Attack.
38.—Describe procedure when enemy's patrols are sighted by sentinels and when an attack develops.
39.—When are the trench mortars and the machine guns fired?
40.—How are hand grenades thrown?
41.—Where should the rifle fire be aimed?
42.—When are bayonets used?
43.—Is it sufficient to repulse an attack?
44.—What formation should be adopted for the counter attack?
45.—How is the advance made and the counter attack carried out?
46.—Describe what is meant by organization of a newly conquered trench.
47.—What should be done, if the enemy bombards the fire-trench?
48.—What should the sentinels do?
49.—What should be done if the bombardment is back of the fire-trench?
50.—What general rule applies to the use of all trench artillery?
51.—What are its ordinary objectives?
52.—How are trench mortars handled?
53.—What is meant by calling trench-artillery mobile weapons?
54.—Give a general caution for the use of all ammunition.
55.—What is essential to secure effective artillery fire?
56.—What should be done if one's own artillery fire falls short upon one's own trenches?
57.—How is coordination between artillery and infantry secured in case of a raid?
58.—What are the principal items of the morning schedule, of the afternoon schedule?
59.—Describe the preparations for leaving the trenches.
60.—What orders are given at the time of relief?
61.—What is done before the men are dismissed to their billets?
62.—How should the days in rest billets be utilized?
63.—Describe a typical day in the trenches.
64.—Describe a typical day in rest billets.
65.—What should be the supreme aim alike of men and officers?
Part II.
French Infantry Combat
Principles.
FRENCH INFANTRY COMBAT PRINCIPLES.
OPEN WARFARE.
106.—Is open warfare probable?
It is improbable that in this war trench warfare will definitely give place on all sectors of the front to open warfare.
But the tactics that have forced several retirements will force others.
If sufficient troops are available, tried and fit and resolute, with the necessary quantities of ammunition and improved artillery, we shall see German arrogance and brutality in victory become again cringing fear and demoralization in defeat; the experience of the Marne will be repeated and the invaders will be driven out of the territory they swarmed over through treacherous breaking of treaties.
107.—The need of training in Infantry Combat Principles.
That day the infantry will come again unto its own and its dash and resolution will insure victory.
To achieve it, it must be a well trained infantry, in the old sense of the word. Officers, non-commissioned officers and men must have a thorough and practical knowledge of Infantry Combat Principles.
These should be practiced in the intervals of trench service when the battalion is in rest billets.
Their theory should be thoroughly mastered by all on whom may devolve responsibility.
108.—The two phases of the Combat.
We shall study here the two principal phases of the combat: the approach and the attack, from the point of view of the company commander.
109.—The Defense.
We shall also consider the Combat from the standpoint of the Defense.