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The Royal Engineers Journal THE ROYAL ENGINEERS JOURNAL. Vol. XIV. No. 2. AUGUST, 1911. CONTENTS. 1. Some Recent Tendencies in Field Engineering. By Capt. E. E. B. HOLT WILSON, D.S.O., R.E. (With Pates) ... ... ... 65 2. The Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway Volunteers. By THEIR COMMANDANT. (With Photos) ...... 85 3. The British Military Mission in Egypt, 1798-1802 91 4. The Destruction of a Timber Jetty by the Sea-Worm, and its Reconstruction in Bilian. By Capt. G. H. ADDISON, R.E. (With Photos and Plate) ... 103 5. Transcript:-Royal Engineers in Co-operation with other Arms. By Brig.-Gen. F. C. HEATl, c.B., Inspector of Royal Engineers. (Reprinted by kind permission of the Secretary, Aldershot Military Society) ..... ... 109 6. Review:--Geology far Engineers. By Lt.-Col. R. F. SORSBIE, R.E. (Brig.-Gen. G. K. SCOTT-MONCRIEFF, C.B., C.I.E., R.E.) 123 7. Notice of Magazine ... ... ... 126 6 11 L INSTITUTION OF RE OFFICE COPY DO NOT REMOVE _ _;.______ I GUARANTEED: Immunity from repairs. 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( ith Plates) ... ... ... ... ... 65 2. THE OUDII AND ROIIILKItAND RAILWAY VOLUNTEERS. By Their Com- mandant. (Wiih Pholos) ..... ... ... ... .... ... .. 85 3. THE BRITISII MILITARY MISSION IN EGYPT, 1798-1802 9' 4. THE DESTRUCTION OF A TIMBER JETTY BY TIlE SEA-WORM, AND ITS RECON- STRUCTION IN BILLIAN. By Capt. G. H. Addison, R.E. (WIith Photos and Plate) ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 103 5. TRANSCRIPT:- Royal Engineers in Co-operation with other Arms. By Brig.-Gen. F. C. Heath, c.B., Inspector of Royal Engineers. (Reprinted by kind permission of the Secretary, Aldershot Military Society) ... ... ... ... 109 6. REVIEW:- Grologyfor Engineers. By Lt.-Col. R. F. Sorsbie, R.E. (Brig.-Gen. G. K. Scott-Moncrieff, C.B., C.I.E., R.E.) .... ................ 123 7. NOTICE OF MAGAZINE:- R/ivista di Artiglieria e Genao. By Col. Sir Edwd. T. Thackelay, v.c., K.C.B., late R.E..... ... ... ... ... ...... 126 Authors alone are responsible for the statements made and the cpinions expressed it their papers. 66 THE ROYAL ENGINEERS JOURNAL. [AUGUST are in part only the methods employed to get the most effective shooting out of a given force, and that the shooting itself is the thing that matters. As the principal function of all field engineerilng-pro- perly applied-is also to get the most effective shooting from the smallest possible given team, we are on clear ground at once and can proceed to details. The days have now passed when entrenchments were issued by the yard run conformable to sealed pattern,-in peace time only too frequently as tortuous exercises in mensuration at paper examinations, and in war as "some fad of the engineers" to be carried out under protest by the unwilling troops. Redoubts, even, are no longer planned at the office table and served out in stock sizes, like hats, to be crammed somehow on to the crown of hills many of which have nasty habits, in the Quartermaster's language, of turning out to be " specials." But though we beware of stock type-designs and stock systems, it does not mean that we go hatless because the sealed pattern article does not fit our head. The spirit of the offensive rightly permeates all manuals of field engineering to-day, and good normal details should accordingly possess inherent adaptability to the purpose of sound offensive tactics. It is therefore difficult to choose a normal tactical peg on which to hang samples of fieldworks; for current tactical conceptions of their use as an aid to good shooting have such a wide range. We have a good ideal in the Japanese idea of placing rows of dummy parapets on a false position, holding them with just enough men to make a sufficient show of resistance to cause the enemy to deploy for attack, and then hurling on the flank of the attack the whole nation in arms- hitherto concealed round the corner ! But perhaps this might be a little too advanced for our present purpose. STRONGHOLDS OF DISPERSED ELEMENTS. Leaving the main striking forces out of the picture it will per- haps be safer to assume that the defensive share of the fighting is to be done by a relatively small number of troops placed in charge of, not "posted for the defence of," a zone of resistance, which, starting from the smallest beginnings, develops its strength from hour to hour to meet the particular stresses to which it is being sub- jected. The backbone of such a defence may consist in some ot the troops judiciously posted in a chain of mobile garrisons, of strength proportionate to the estimated difficulty of their tasks, and within co-operative distance of each other.
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