14 AUGUST 1915, Page 18

LONGS AND SHORTS.

[To THE EDITOR OP TER " STRCTATOR."1 SIR,—In the Spectator of July 3rd, which is the first number I have seen for months, I have read with much interest "Longs and Shorts." The following may be worth quoting as appearing in a Government publication, the "Treatise on Service Gunnery "

"The duty of the hard face or armour is to convert the medium conveying the energy, so that the plate receives the emasculated blow of a disintegrated mass, instead of the penetrating thrust of a carefully devised tool."

I quote from memory, slush literature as the above not forming

part of my war outfit.—I am, Sir, &c., J. Gallipoli Peninsula.