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Show l" ' TO AJFBVE ART Sharpshooter Uses Many Branches of Service to Assist Him. BEHIND BRITISH LINES IN FRANCE, June 19. (Correspondence of the Associated Press) Sniping and counter-sniping has been reduced to a fine art In modern warfare, and the sharpshooter uses many other branches branch-es of the service to assist him. An Incident which occurred a few days ago in the British lines in Flanders shows how a little artillery work Is sometimes necessary in bringing about the undoing of the German snipers. Lieutenant Jackson, battalion sniping snip-ing officer, was walking down the trench when he heard a sudden rattle of musketry German bullets striking one of the British sniping planes. One of his sniping posts was being battered by German armor-piercing bullets. The officer hurried to the scene and with his periscope located tho spot where tho Germans were firing. It was a big post on some ground behind be-hind the enemy firing line, hidden with earth and looking exactly like any one of the other tangled hummocks with which shells and mines had strewn the vicinity. But his trained eye quickly quick-ly marked out four small apertures which ho knew to be loopholes. The excellence of his periscope even enabled en-abled him to see the puffs of unburned powder which came from the four hostile hos-tile rifles at every shoL "They aro behind concrete and steel under that surface mud, sir," said the scrgcanL "It won't be easy dealing with them." . "Its a case for tho heavy artillery, I'm afraid," murmured Lieutenant Jackson regretfully he disliked calling call-ing in any outside assistance for his snipers. "I saw the Major of that heavy battery bat-tery which covers us, going by a moment mo-ment ago," suggested the sergeant Lieutenant Jackson hurried off down the trench and found the major who was up on a survey of the enemy line for special targets. A hint of what had developed brought the major ma-jor back, and a minute later he was in the nearest signal dugout, telephoning telephon-ing Instructions to his battery. Meanwhile Lieutenant Jackson beckoned the sergeant away out of the major's hearing. "Put Haggarty and Brown into Post 9, Sergeant," he ordered. "I don't think the Germans havo any day communication Into that post of theirs, and they will havo to bolt for cover over the ridge." Presently the first heavy projectile came rumbling up from the rear. It burst fifty yards wide in a great splash of earth. The second shell burst In the German firing line, right in front of tho sniping post, and tore a ht? gap in the parapet. The third t'i right on top of tho pom itself. E: the concrete of the structure -n strong, and tho shell actually ri cheted clear and burst several yarc away. "That has frightened them' a claimed the major suddenly, as fw figures appeared from behind the sm ing post and raced madly for tho crt of the ridge. Just then a shot rej out from the British trench, and tli first German pitched forward on h face. The second fell a yard furtte on. The remaining two were iroppe as they reached the crest I n |