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  Time (Model 96), 116
    (Model 98), 118

SHIELDS
  Protection afforded by, 324

SHRAPNEL
  Comparison between that of field gun and howitzer, 117
  Effect (tables), 114, 122
    On animate targets, 125
  Incendiary effect, 112
  Percussion, 111, 112
  Time, 112

SIGNAL LAMPS, use of, on battlefield, 246

SIGNALS, 41
  Advance, 41
  Assemble, 41
  Attention, 41
  Charge, 41
  Deploy, 41
  Employment of, by combat patrols, 80
  Fix bayonet, 41, 377
  Halt, 41
  Misunderstanding of, 42
  Trumpet, 41

SITUATION, estimate of the, 11

SKI DETACHMENTS, 30, 31, 32

SKI RUNNERS, 30, 31, 32

SKIRMISH LINES
  Boer advance in thin, 75
  Cover, use of, 256
  Efficacy of fire against thin and dense (table), 77
  Fire effect, as compared with machine guns, 265
  Formation of, 78
    In various armies, 80
  Gaits of, 81
  Japanese advance in thin, 76, 77
  Losses, 81
  Movements in, 81, 82
  Thin and dense, 76, 77
  Vulnerability of, 186, 187

SNOW SHOE MARCHING, 30, 31

SPADE
  Use of, in attack, 387, 388, 392, 449, 457, 465, 466
  Small, weight of, 40

SPLINTER PROOFS, 418, 420

SQUAD LEADERS
  Posts in close order, 46, 47
    Skirmish line, 79

SQUADS
  Column of, compared with column of fours, 59
    (Plate), 57
  Division of the company into, 46