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Show Shows Great Increase in Use of Artillery Washington. American soldiers in the battle of St. Mihiel expended nearly .'l.'i times us much artillery ammunition as was expended by the Union armyln the battle oC i lei tysburg. This comparison aruS others are shown in a table of statistics prepared pre-pared by the war department to j emphasize the geat increase in the use of artillery to precede Infantry action as one .;' the striking developments devel-opments of the present war. The high marks In the use of artillery In offensive battle were reached at the Somme in 1910 and Messlnes ridge in 1917, before tbe effective use of tanks was developed. devel-oped. The comparative table of artillery artil-lery expended In battles of recent wars and the present war is as follows fol-lows : Rounds o artillery tion ex- Year. Battle duration. Army pended. ISM. .Chlokam'sa 2 Union 7,325 1 S 6 :t . .Gettysburg 3 Union 32.785 . 1870. .St. Prlvat 1 German 39,000 1 904 . . Nanshan 1 Japanese 34,047 11104 . .I.iao Tang 9 Russian 134,400 ! 1904. .Sha Ho 9 Russian 271.360 ' 1915. .N.Ohapelle 35min. British 197,000 I 1915 . .Souchz S French 300,000 lSli..Stimm; 7 British 4,000,000 1917. .lie.-.. Ridge 7 British 2, 7.'3, 000 1918. .St. Mthlei 4 hrs. U. S. 1.0f'3,217 |