Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-26

And since the Poles first won fame as
uhlans. 50 today a large part of the
Uhlars are Poles and men from the east
ern part of the empire
The uhlans originally were not only
picturesque because of their spears and
pennants, but they were garbed in uni
forms distinctly Oriental and caparsoned
their mounts in gaudy fashion. In recent
years the uniforms have been more sober
and the horses have been relieved of all
possible burden
1t was Frederick the Great who intro
duced the first great cavalry epoch,
though his early experiments were dis
astrcus. His cavalry was all heavy cav
airy in every sense His horse soldiery
were Sc encumbered that a speed greater
than u trot was never essayed, and trot
could only be maintained for a few hun
dred yards.
After a smashing defeat. one/of Fred
ericE's generals told him that the secret
of victory lay in the legs of the soldiers
and that horses that could not go into
action at top speed and keep up that
speed undimnished for 1000 yards were a
drawback to an army. Frederick took
the matter to his heart and developed n
cavalry that had speed and dash and
that carried no unnecessary weight. From
that time on Germany has been cav
airy nation and now mounts its men on
''-'''''' N''AS N1''i oS NSt> SPSNN iS' iA4S'S
than three miles.
MILLIONS FOR HORSES.
To get horses with the speed and the
bottom for such work as the Kaiser's
generals demand of the Chans and Cui-
rassiers, Germany has secured the world
and paid millions of dollars for breed
ing animals. The State maintains breed
ing farms that supply many of the horses
for tile army and private producers are
encouraged with good prices to raise
army grade animals.
Just as every man In Germany is a
soldier, every horse in Germany Is po-
tentially a war animal. Every horse in
the empire Is registered and when mobi- |
lization is ordered each owner must |
bring to the headquarters In his district |
ell his horses. There the animals arc |
examined by military veterinary sur
geons and such as are At for war work |
are turned over to the army at once. |
Later, a military board decides what |
each animal was worth, and the owner
gets that sum, and, 1t might be added, |
10 more.
A regiment of Uhlans is made up of |
COO men for actual line of battle work
and $50 for the depot" The depot men
take care of supplies, extra mounts, and
forage and replace men at the front
when needed
The Austrians. French and Russians
have given great care to their horse SOL
diers, and all but France have some lam
GERS. The Austrians are hard riders and
are recruited from the eastern peoples of
The empire very largely. The French
and the Russians have few horsemen
armed with spears. The Cars Cos
sacks, who are really hard riding, hard
lighting herdsmen or cowboys from the
south OF the empire before they go into
he army, are perhaps Europe's best
,avalrymen before they are trained.
Yearly all of them have been practi-
ally born in the saddle and know horses
IS do the Arabs.
Persons with Imagination have said
hey could think of no more stirring
circumstance than equal bodies of Uhlans
md Cossacks charging upon each other
lcross open country.