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they think, to encourage carelessness, to foster a sense of security until men gather in gossiping groups. Then a shell from a seventy-five at close range bags more in a second than a week of sniping will drop. The Germans too, I understand, are divided as to which method produces the better result. Either way it also is designed to keep the other fellow from feeling too much at his ease.
