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of infantry firing the same number of rounds. This has been proved again by actual experiment at the schools of musketry in England, India, and South Africa, while very elaborate experiments and trials carried out in Germany with the Maxim gun on the carriage adopted for that service proved that the beaten zone was only one-sixth of that obtained by infantry, probably because of the greater stability of their mounting.
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Diagram I
TO SHOW THE ZONE BEATEN BY 50 PER CENT. OF BULLETS
In order that "fire" may be "effective," it
