Tactics, Volume 1 (of 2). Introduction and Formal Tactics of Infantry

Note 249 — THE FORMAL TACTICS OF INFANTRY. (continued 5)

Walter Krueger translation

See Taktik, III, p. 116, et seq.

von Löbell’s Jahresberichte 1906, p. 390: Employment of Heliographs and Signal Lamps in Southwest Africa.

[250] Wig-wag signals have been abolished and Morse signals prescribed in their stead by Cabinet Orders dated January 16th, 1908.

[251] Sir Ian Hamilton, A Staff Officer’s Scrap Book, I, pp. 173-174, 196, 241 and 323.

[252] The station apparatus furnished by the firm of “Zwietusch” of Charlottenburg, weighs 5.5 kg. with its battery.

In defensive positions, which are held for a prolonged period, it is, of course, practicable to establish telephonic connection with the most advanced line. This was, for example, the case in the Japanese 10th Division on the morning of March 3rd, 1905 (Mukden). On this occasion the division commander in rear was informed by telephone of the presence of wire entanglements in front of the Russian position, and permission was asked and granted to postpone the attack.

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