Germany prided herself, above all, on "scientific war." But the nation she despised as slow-witted and effete has met her again and again on her own boasted ground, and, brain for brain, has won.
With the ever-growing importance of artillery has gone, of course, a constant increase in artillery _personnel_, and in the proportion of gunners to infantry.

The Third Battle of Ypres in the autumn of 1917 was "one of intense struggle for artillery supremacy," says the Field Marshal.

Germany had put out all her strength in guns, and was determined to beat down the British artillery.

The British Command met the attack and defeated it, in a long-drawn battle, in which, naturally, the proportion of artillery _personnel_ to infantry was exceptionally high--at one time eighty-five per cent.

Last spring, for a short time, owing to the transference of batteries from the Russian front, the enemy command succeeded in establishing "a definite local artillery superiority." But it was soon over.