1. On officers and noncommissioned officers. These can be recognized by their gestures. They are generally in the center of groups and get up and start first. They should be disabled, as this is the surest way of breaking up the attack.
2. At a group on the move. Fire should be concentrated on an advancing group. The time when the group is preparing to start its rush may be indicated by rifles being raised and the movements that take place along the line. After a rush has started, look out for the late comers trying to rejoin their comrades. They make good targets.
3. When the enemy attempts to build up his line to the front by a process of infiltration. That is, by having single men crawl from one point to the other, each man should be fired on during his advance.
4. Fire will be immediately concentrated on any machine gun that comes into action. With the German gun prolonged firing heats the water in the jacket to the boiling point and puffs of steam are given off. Do not be deceived into thinking that this necessarily gives away the position of the gun, for this steam has been piped to a distant place and allowed to escape so as to draw fire that otherwise might be directed on the real position of the gun.
5. On signallers or runners. These are carrying information that will probably be of benefit to the enemy's commander. You will appreciate the necessity of preventing this.
6. On an enemy showing a flank. No opportunity must be lost to fire upon an enemy that exposes his flank. The fire of a single rifleman down the flank may cause a whole line to retreat.
Use of Rifle Grenades
Rifle grenades are capable of causing more losses to the enemy than bombardment. The rifle grenade arrives at its destination unexpectedly without any noise; it explodes before one has even time to get out of the way. As it does not arrive at fixed hours like the bombardment, the enemy cannot continually avoid it by taking refuge in his dugouts and shelters; when he is moving about a trench which is subject to rifle grenading he must be continually on the alert. This perpetual menace, hour in and hour out, day in and day out, renders his sojourn in the trenches extremely disagreeable.
Before rifle grenades are thrown careful observation of the opposing trench must have been made to determine the point where the grenade is likely to do the greatest damage.
Rifles are placed in the aiming racks and the grenades fired from time to time, day and night, at moments when it seems propitious. In this way a sentinel may be taken by surprise; a noncommissioned officer or officer may be caught unawares.