The soldier's pocket-book for field serviceMacmillan & Company, 1871 - 355 pages |
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Page 175 - When the prone position is resumed, make equable but efficient pressure, with brisk movement, along the back of the chest, removing it immediately before rotation on the side [the first measure augments the expiration, the second commences inspiration].
Page 177 - Soft-looking or delicate clouds foretell fine weather, with moderate or light breezes; hard-edged, oily-looking clouds, wind. A dark, gloomy, blue sky is windy; but a light, bright blue sky indicates fine weather. Generally the softer clouds look, the less wind (but perhaps more rain) may be expected; and the harder, more "greasy," rolled, tufted, or ragged, the stronger the coming wind will prove.
Page 94 - In executing a sentence of solitary confinement, such confinement shall in no case exceed fourteen days at a time, with intervals between the periods of solitary confinement...
Page 79 - As a nation we are bred up to feel it a disgrace even to succeed by falsehood ; the word spy conveys something as repulsive as slave"; we will keep hammering along with the conviction that ' honesty is the best polic.y,' and that truth always wins in the long run.
Page 85 - ... direct that the offender shall be kept in solitary confinement for any portion or portions of such imprisonment, or of such imprisonment with hard labour, not exceeding one month at any one time, and not exceeding three months in any one year, as to the court in its discretion shall seem meet.
Page 94 - Year, with Intervals between the Periods of Solitary Confinement of not less Duration than such Periods of Solitary Confinement...
Page 70 - The only legitimate use an officer can make of documents, or information of which he may become possessed in his official capacity, is for the furtherance of the public service in the performance of his duty. If his official conduct be impugned, he is at liberty to seek redress by an appeal to superior authority, through the regular channel. On the other hand...
Page 5 - He must be taught to despise all those of civil life : " a sentiment which is not limited to the " duties " of the soldier as a defender of his country, which in our day he never performs, but is extended to his "duties" as an invader of other countries, and especially those of weak peoples: the appetite for aggression transforms baseness into nobility.
Page 87 - The officer conducting the prosecution Is to be allowed an opening address. At the close of the evidence for the prosecution, the deputy judge advocate will ask the prisoner If he Intends to adduce evidence. If the prisoner then replies In the negative, the prosecutor...
Page 81 - Provost-Marshal is intrusted with Authority to inflict Summary Punishment on any Soldier, or Individual connected with the Army, whom he may detect in the actual Commission of any Offence against Order and Discipline ; but a recourse to the Exercise of this part of his Authority must be limited to the necessity of the Case, when the prevalent and continual Commission of any particular Offence may call for an immediate Example.