4. Consumption of ammunition.
5. Requests for miscellaneous equipment and material.
This report is signed by the chiefs of the area responsible for the information in the report. Along with this official report is added a second written report with the following paragraphs:
1. Request for materials for the night.
2. Observation and information reports (to the Intelligence Officer).
3. Report of all the work done in the sector, including time schedule of the center of resistance.
Use of Infantry and Artillery Weapons, and Liaison
Machine Guns. The tactical use and location of machine guns in the sector depends upon the following two points:
(a) Machine gun emplacements must be thoroughly concealed and during the bombardment the M. G. itself is kept under cover in a dugout. Previous to an attack of the enemy, his artillery searches the position for the destruction of the machine guns and their emplacements, because they are the most powerful weapons of the defense.
If invisible casemates can be constructed this practice is good. The best method is, however, to prepare several emplacements, properly camouflaged, with a deep dugout near at hand for the protection of the M. G. and its crew. This shelter must be located at such a point that the M. G. can be quickly brought out to any one of its emplacements when the attack develops. These emplacements usually are simple pits located in front of the trench and connected with the dugout by a gallery. When emplacements are destroyed by hostile artillery fire, or when they are not possible, machine guns are pushed into shell holes or operated on the open ground. Shell holes out in front give the best service as emplacements for a daring M. G. crew. The French success at Verdun depended to a great extent upon the judicious use of shell holes for M. G. flanking fire.