TOPICAL BUDGET 284-2 [Main]

I. 'BARRAGE FIRE. Owing to the wonderful accuracy and rapidity of fire, the French 75 m/m gun is extreamely (sic) useful for 'barrage fire' in preventing trench raids.' Rear 3/4 and rear view of 75mm gun under a wooden shelter as it fires rapidly. LS of shells bursting in open ground. The gun is a M12 and not the more famous M97.II. 'PRESIDENT WILSON. The President of the United States has immense…