Show I THE WHITE FLAG OF MODERN WARFARE II I HE E process of ot surrendering In InA inA T- T THE A modern warfare e constitutes a 1 subject which has been very mea meagre re- re I 1 ly treated by writers The following Ly a writer who employs only tho the E B T. T S. S published In Popular lar bar Mechanics 1 will bo be found an in informative informative in- in formative bit of ot comment An lAn Idea persists in many quarters today day that at any time a combatant gets into a place too tight for his courage or a place where continued opposition to an overwhelming force means nothing but useless suicide all Jie le e has to do Is to surrender The rhe popular Idea of or thus giving up in the face of odds Is symbolized b by the I photographed silhouettes of Or f Germans walking toward the Allied trenches with Lands hands held aloft and crying ing Mercy The Tho truth Is much sterner than this Neither a German nor a fighter lighter under the Allied d nags flags has this lege always In fact tact more than half I tho the soldiers who actually desire desiro to surrender and who would most certainly cere do so if it given the opportunity are arc forced to fl fight ht to tho the end cad Prisoners cannot be bo taken b by either side except at t Certain stages of or the combat Under the instructions Issued to our boys bos at the cantonments day to-day I given to the officers at the reserve l officers training camps and ADd used b by the armies of the Allies and such of our troops as havo have figured In attacks thus far no prisoners can bo be taken until all objectives of or the sector of ot th the attack attach in question ba have bae e been Let Lot us Illustrate this In most normal attacks to-day to the battalion Is the unit In the caso case of a big push that that Is an attack which extends over five miles or J more of or front the front the regiment an elastic body consisting of or any number of ot battalions under tho the army system adopted by France England and Ita Italy and which probably probably ably soon will bo be adopted by tho the United States War Var College sometimes Is th the unit but not often orten Tho The battalion usually forms a wave and Is given a n definite objective I U If there are oro only onu- three wave wavea battalions battalion's objective may bo be one o of the the three opposing trenches The rho time card of attack will wIn designate th the hour of ot advance zero the kind kindOr of Or barrage barage box boc creeping or lifting and the method of ot advance behind the barrage Also the card will state exactly exactly ex the minute and second that each objective should bo be ga gained ned In making out these cards no nomore nomore more moxe time is allowed than Is deemed absolutely necessary for seconds wasted in accomplishing the of ot an attack account for scores of Ct killed and wounded The Tho way it all works out is that every ounce of ot offensive strength po po- J by a battalion Is needed all of or orthe the tho time until the trench Is taken ken new trench is made and anti time the Immediate counter attacks re repulsed J I f f |