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Show fiiMlORFF MAKES A REPORT 1 Master Mind of German Army-Pays Army-Pays French Artilleryman a Compliment. FRENCH FRONT, Dec. 14. (Correspondence.) (Corre-spondence.) General Ludendorff, regarded re-garded by the entente allies as the master-mind of the German army, pays an unintentional compliment to the accuracy of French artillerymen In a memorandum Issued to the troops on October 4, which has just been made available to the correspondent of tho Associated Press. In this document he admits that the French gunners by their counter-battery fire destroyed in one German army alono in tho course of a month eighty-three German field guns and, seventy-two heavy cannon, while theyj seriously damaged and put out of action ac-tion also 282 field guns and 213 heavy cannon, as well as ninety-one field i guns and fifty-nine heavy cannon ( slightly injured but capable of boing' repaired and used again in a short time. To these Imposing figures of artillery artil-lery losses caused by the Fronch gunners, gun-ners, tho same German army in tho same period of tlmo had the mortification mortifica-tion of adding an almost equally largo number of losses brought about "by the wcarLng out or bursting of guns. In this way seventy-three field gunn and twenty-one heavy cannon w"Gro destroyed; 161 field guns and 129 heavy guns seriously damaged and177 t field guns and ninety-one heavy guns J slightly disabled. H ! The memorandum was issued to the j vM German army by General Ludendorff '5 'W I because his artillery officers had fiIH .argued repeatedly in favor of making ifyH I counter-battery work secondary to at- jiylH , tacks on infantry and communlca- MlWrn lions. They asserted the French artll- ft H i lery directed their guns more generally 1 jjj against tho German infantry than ijjjH against the artillery batteries. Tho ; figures collated by the German gen- j H oral demonstrate the falsity of this J H argument and show the French deter- i)'H mination to prevent tho German guns. iil H as far as possible, from being used I 1H against the French infantry and lines jlH of communication and supply, and that , I H they do this successfully. il l General Ludendorff in concluding IilH his memorandum points out that by H counter-battery work not only is tho 'IjH enemy's artillery destroyed or put out J jl H of action, but the opponent Is forced WlH to a considerable extent to turn his ilH attention away from the doings of tho tlH enemy's infantry which Is thus able llH to maneuver with greater ease. jl I |