Show no smoke of battle now one of the marked features of the european conflict that distinguish it from the wars of past Is 19 tho the absence of smoke on the firing line owing to the use of smokiness iless powder no smoke is made when FL a ritie rille is discharged while the heaviest artillery throws oft off nothing more than a thin nilst mist that is invisible a hundred yards away and Ils appears within a few see seconds after the gun is fired only when shrapnel or a shell explodes explode ar jib in the line la Is there anything visible in the way of smoke the whole purpose being to conceal tho position tion of the gurs throwing the projectiles while making points whore where tha projectiles explode clearly visible the expression the smoke of Ii attle si faithfully descriptive of tile the wars of the past has little deanin me meaning anin when applied to a lioI orn war Po popular jular ile M chanice magazine |