Moreover, the men shout words of encouragement to the subaltern, for it is
						impossible for each subaltern to make his voice travel along the whole of
						his section to the far end. When two or
							more sections are abreast (c. xi. 4), the men take up and repeat the
							exhortations of the subaltern posted at the end of the line, and pass
							them along to the next subaltern, and so on. These detached notes are
							not clearly expressed. The colonel is responsible for seeing that
						all is done properly.