Show BATTLES OF THE FUTURE advantages Advant aga and disadvantages of smokeless powder united service with the new methods and material no one knows much about the comine ing battle battles miny will attend the use of em beleas pow der the duties of the guard and his ills patro 1 will bb mado made immeasurably more mor difficultly difficult by the absence of the smoke and which in the case of 0 the employment of ordinary pow tie dr attracted their attention to and pointed n ted out the position of the enemy adi on the other hand it will render cali capital tal service to f A whose hose object ll 11 ct is is to escape from a and nd confuse ti e the tile guard budden attacks and anti surprises w will ill become matters of such daily occurrence that outposts and patrols will have hav e to be immensely 8 strengthened and ke kept p t at the utmost tension of wa watchfulness t firing drill and disc discipline I 1 i line must necessarily bd be made much stricter than at present the most important fault of the smokeless powder is is however hoever the terrific clearness the overwhelming distinctness with which when it is is used in in battle every man will be able to see the carnage and slaughter about him each man fighting figh tinK behind hind a thick fog of smoke which was oni only wafted wafred aside by ft a gust of wind or lag lightened bened by a pwee in the firing I 1 I 1 felt A a certain denae of screened security mistaken indeed but none the I 1 less reassuring until he himself was struck how will it bein be in the future |