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Show TEUTONS REPLY ON MACHINE GUN Separate Companies in Each Infantry Regiment Given an Impossible Name. FRENCH FRONT, Nov. 9. (Correspondence (Corres-pondence of the Associated Press.) German appreciation of tho value of the machine gun in modern battles was apparent at the very beginning of hostilities in 1914 and the most recent re-cent developments In their infantry formations give testimony of ever-extending reliance on this weapon for tho defense of tho front line. Each German Infantry regiment will be provided with no fewer than twenty-four of these weapons, whose manipulators man-ipulators are formed into a separate company ,and besides these each company com-pany Is to, bo furnished with six light rapid Are guns, altogether making a formidable equipment This is an enor-mqus enor-mqus Increase over the number provided provid-ed at the beginning of the war, when each regiment of infantry of the actlva army and Its reserve possessed only six of these guns. Special Machine Gun Companies. Besides the regimental machine guns special companios have been formed with the title of "Maschincngewehrsch-uetzungabtellungen." "Maschincngewehrsch-uetzungabtellungen." These operate rTT separately from the battalions of Infantry In-fantry in attacks. They are composed of groups of six machine guns each, and three of these groups as a rule work together. There are altogether over two hundred of these groups and their number is rapidly increasing. They came first into action during the battle of the Somme and they were engaged en-gaged also in the battles round Verdun. Ver-dun. All tho efforts of the Germans to find an effective portable machine gun or automatic iifle such as that possessed by the French and British troops appear ap-pear to have been unsuccessful, and although such weapons have been brought into action on soveral occasions occa-sions they have quickly disappeared. |