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Show AMERICAN INFANTRYMAN HAS ADVANTAGE. The American infantryman In the American expeditionary forces carries car-ries 200 rounds of ammunition In the pocket of his light canvas webb belt and his bandoleers. The German Ger-man soldier has only 120 rounds, and 30 of these are In his knapsack. To secure them at a critical moment he must lose valuable time. The American webb belts, according accord-ing to the war department, are far superior to the German leather bandoleers. ban-doleers. They are not affected by prolonged rains nor torrid weather. The manufacture of these belts is one of the most intricate of the operations op-erations in the textile field. U. S. army belts are made almost entirely of cotton. The exact weight of the 200 rounds carried by the American soldier sol-dier In France is 12 pounds. With the Springfield rifle, twenty-three aimed shots can be fired each minute. min-ute. Firing from' the hip, forty shots can be fired a minute. The .new United tSates model (modified Enfield) does even better. |