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Show Names in the News. Trench mortar is the name given to a short gun of vertical fire used to discharge dis-charge bombs into an enemy intrench-ment. intrench-ment. The shells are thrown at a high angle of elevation so as to drop from above into the enemy position. Francs-tircurs (pronounced fron te-rer) are bodies of French irregulars or guerillas, guer-illas, first organized during the Franco-Prussian Franco-Prussian war, who acted independently of military command. Germany, however, how-ever, refused to regard them as legitimate legiti-mate combatants. |