Transcriber’s Note: Italic text is enclosed in _underscores_. SNIPING IN FRANCE _By the Same Author._ WHERE BLACK RULES WHITE--HAYTI THROUGH THE HEART OF PATAGONIA HUNTING CAMPS IN WOOD AND WILDERNESS THROUGH TRACKLESS LABRADOR [Illustration: _From a drawing by_] [_Ernest Blaikley._ The Sniper-Observer-Scout.] SNIPING IN FRANCE With Notes on the Scientific Training of Scouts, Observers, and Snipers BY MAJOR H. HESKETH-PRICHARD D.S.O., M.C. _WITH A FOREWORD_ BY GENERAL LORD HORNE OF STIRKOKE G.C.B., K.C.M.G., etc. _Illustrations by ERNEST BLAIKLEY, Artists’ Rifles, late Sergeant-Instructor at the First Army School of S.O.S., the late Lieut. B. Head, The Hertfordshire Regt., and from Photographs._ _NEW YORK_: _E. P. DUTTON AND COMPANY 681, FIFTH AVENUE_ _Printed in Great Britain._ FOREWORD BY GENERAL LORD HORNE, G.C.B. It may fairly be claimed that when hostilities ceased on November 11th, 1918, we had outplayed Germany at all points of the game. Perhaps as a nation we failed in imagination. Possibly Germany was more quick to initiate new methods of warfare or to adapt her existing methods to meet prevailing conditions. Certainly we were slow to adopt, indeed, our souls abhorred, anything unsportsmanlike. Had it been left to us, “Gas” would have taken no part in the Great European War. But, however lacking in imagination, however slow to realize the importance of novel methods, once we were convinced of their necessity, once we decided to adopt them, we managed by a combination of brains and energy, pluck and endurance, not only to make up the lost ground, but to take the lead in the race. In proof of this statement I would instance Heavy Field Artillery, High Explosives, Gas, Work in the Air, etc., and many other points I could mention in which Germany started ahead of us, including Sniping, Observation and Scouting. And for our eventual superiority we owe much to individuals, men who, like the author of this book, Major Hesketh-Prichard, combined expert knowledge with untiring energy, men who would not be denied and could not recognize defeat.