Show MACHINE MACIE GUt GU IS' IS BEST WAR VAR WEAPON Indisputably the Most T Terrible Instrument of Defense Says Observer BIG G GUNS OFTEN J IE While Necessary in Offensive Warfare Heavy Artillery Is Not in Same Class With Machine Guns in Defensive BY A FRENCH SOLDIER In tIne the Chicago Dally Daily News Paris Months of furiOus assault on the French lines at Verdun which have brought Into play the most powerful pow- pow erful known means of attack have barely arely succeeded In bending the tile adversary's adversary's ad ad- lines There is it is true a diminution of forces on both oth sides and andone andone andone one may look forward to the day when the accumulation of material and the superiority in numbers o of men Inca on t the e esIde side of the allies will enable the latter latter- to break brenk more rapidly the adversary's tenacious resistance I But nut why is It one asks that despite I the tine accumulation of heavy cannon it costs so much in then men men anti and money thoney and time to break the enemy's resistance It Is because this war Is ls being fought rough t tIn in tx n period of development of the tine art artof artof of war in which the means of defense are arc vastly superior r to the tine 1 means of of offense nse In the facility with which they can be brought into action ami cind mann- mann at low cost and above all nil In n their efficacy arising both from the tine difficulty which the tIne adversary finds In III demolishing them and from the tine absolute absolute lute accuracy of their aim Means of Defense S To To- understand this one oie has merely to to review re the means of defense at the disposal of the armies in the tine field First besides the trenches and the barbed b wire that prevents access to them which fire are the basis of the tine present present pres pres- ent eat system of defense and und of which the shell hole wherein the tile soldier conceals conceals conceals con con- ceals himself himself from the enemy I Is but a variation n the tine two great arms of defense defense de de- de- de are the machine gun an and the 75 cannon the last resort of the tine French army and one of the great grent defenders defenders de de- de- de fenders of Verdun In the factory y there Is nothing easier ensler or relatively cheaper to make than the machine gun And at nt the thc front there Is nothing simpler to transPort transport transport trans- trans Port than this light arm which three 1 or four men can c carry rry as t tIts thy tig M Its aim Is most accurate It necessary fire from to per minute sowing dam foi E every side with Incredible sped spat i against a french trench it is therefore it is pre pre- pre t t l too of def defense nse When proper properly j hn hnIt It Is so redoubtable that one been known to stop an na entire ment meat It is indisputably tie mO mist l 1 Instrument of war Yet a well-directed well battery c d. d cannon sweeping sweeping- a space of guzO more certain to leave lea nothing sh eLe These then are the means of defense to whIch nit m f fare are to be added the numerous nl I of the tho defenders of the In Ia which are holes where the tile enemy awaits mal t 5 I. I Heavy Sh Shells lIs for Offense What are the adversary's ESS I annihilating these hidden f Only hea heavy y artillery the I 1511 f shell the hug huse torpedo the of steel Inclosing a n nod 1 plosive Is capable of den f W j I th those netting of pf demoralizing pants of the trench whom It di I kill and keeping the adversary I Ion I Ion ot of of I on edge by the tine menace arrival several v l t t b I lines unes inus me mt u uthe u V the tine heavy cannon the iare e caliber bot bO bOthe I Ithe mortars mortals the tine large the formidable n marine gun guno Il rails all that t is longest most JOOst t manufacture all and aid costly t to port to set In moti motion n. n A f anywhere tiff C can carn ll be bc installed A ci Is l' l month utes mites or less A t I Ipu 3 trench W install the 1 rails III Ia pu put t a gun gua on n 7 1 monthS l order necessitates tr installation of of f a nY w I the I Ithe I are to ens easy that are guns uns wit dI dIat the tine are mored i at tines times it take takes two or orrY in la battery rY place them n u t tAnd The 15 And this is not all I less lOSS naturally tillery Is V Vcrs When OD ODers one I. I I the fine he field artillerY 0 s guns J ers that heavy hem rt the tine big gun can call fl fir e n Its shots as I of number limited c C It roust St increases and ns us J df be replaced one th the cf I I Iso tare take easier ensler t to so much bY and ep I e offensive the than t western front tJ onn tine the r well defended ns as f I i the before time tinie t long a sufficient to P tack tuck were offensive I h |