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  Machine guns,
    Austria, 288
    England, 290
    France, 290
    Germany, 270
    Japan, 290
    Russia, 290
    Switzerland, 284
  Mounted infantry (England), 26
  Regiment, 37

ORGANIZATIONS
  Mixing of, 195, 226
    How prevented, 96, 97
  Use of improvised, 197


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PACE
  Diminution of length of, on various slopes, 141
  Length of, and marching, 53
    In various armies (table), 54

PACES, number of, per minute, 54

PACKS, removal of, 363, 364

PANIC, 27, 107, 441

PASSIVE DEFENSE, 408, 409

PATROLS, 27
  Combat, 80

PEACE, eternal, 1

PENETRATION, "S" bullet, 131

PLATOON
  Column of twos, vulnerability of, 187
  Commander, post in close order, 63
    Skirmish line, 79
  French 4-rank formation (with plates), 65, 66
  Infantry, strength of the German, 273
  One-rank, vulnerability of the, 187

PLATOONS
  Column of (with plate), 61, 62
    How formed, 49
    Machine gun battery, 273, 274
  Division of the company into, 46
  Three or four platoons, 48

POSITION
  Advance into a preparatory, 350
  Advanced, 413
  Battalion groups of intrenchments, 417
  Communicating trenches, 421
  Cover trenches, 421
  Determining factors in selecting a, 414
  Dummy intrenchments, 421
  Foreground, clearing the, 421
    Division into sections, 411
    Observation of the, 420