Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1908 — German Infantry. [ARTICLE]

German Infantry.

The infantry of the German Seventh Army Corps now carries on active service a peculiar little apparatus attached to the sword belt behind their side arms. This apparatus consists of three thin pieces of smooth wood rather more than a foot long and strapped together. These strips of wood form a little tripod, upon which the soldier can rest his rifle and thereby take much better aim. The military authorities welcome this little tripod most warmly, and say that its use will result in far better firing all round by the German infantry. In any case, it is a question of returning to the first principles.— London Globe.