The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-10-10
CAVALRY IS BEING
PERFECTED C DAILY.
In All parts Of France, Men and
Horses Are Being
Drilled for the
Service.
BY NIGHT AND BY DAY
How Wounded Man Attempted to Be
Returned to the Front
After Having Been
Discharged.
BY NIGHT AND BY DAY
: William Philip simms, United
Press Staff Correspondent

! By William Philip Simms, United
Press Staff Correspondent
PARIS, Sept. 10.-(By mail }
France is preparing her cavalry night
and day. Gruelling of horse and man
has been under way since last fall
The work is nearing its final stages
and from now on. like prize-fighter
who has attained form, only fancy
steps will be necessary, just to keep
| fit.
learned that among other things,
in two-week attempt to get away
from the great war, to rest up bit"
in hooks and corners OF the country.
One other thing found was that one
| might as well try to make water run
up hill as to find a spot in France
untouched by the war.
| After long search fancied I had
found such place, far in the country
where the people scarcely speak
French and make themselves under
stood to one another through patois,
but woke up with severe jolt.
The time was, $50 a. m. The night
was chilly and the sleeping was fine.
Suddenly, from the road before the
house came the sound of a fusi1lade,
commands shouted and blown on shrill
whistles, OF the hoof beats Of many
horses. ~
Running to the window I saw in
the moonlight squadron of hussars
disappearing down the road: and
after them a rattle OF rifle shots.
wondered If Uhlan patrol had
somehow strayed through the French
lines. Then the thing was explained.
From down the road. in the direc-
ton taken by the galloping hussars.
approached several horsemen.' AS
they came directly In front of our
house an invisible somebody, hidden
in the chestnut tree in the yard, cut
loose with a carhine on the group OF
three cavalrymen: Bang. bang. bang!
What the blank blank are you do
ing up there. you bone-head?' shouted
sergeant Of cuirassiers materializing
in startling fashion from the shadows
across the road.
"Ambushin' the enemy. OF conrse!"
exclaimed voice in the chestnut tree.
The owner Of the voice slid down
into the yard.
"The enemy" snapped the sergeant
with contempt enough to poison a
snake, "whv you boob, those men
were our own po!lus'"
"How'm I to tell?" I heard the
f.
aloud he added: so much the worse
for them killed 'em all three"
It was the cavalry at maneuvers.
/ All that morning thew kent It up in
and around our poor little hidden-away
village which was taken and retaken
| four or five times during the engage
ment.
! There were many American horses.
as is now the case throughout the
French cavalry. They have hardened
up. become acclimated and are doing
well. it is said, though the Job was
not easy.
! About noon a detachment Of cav
airy guarding the approach immedf-
ately in front OF our house was sur
prised and taken bv another detach-
ment which entered our back yard
from another road and covered the
| first from the flower beds of my hid
ing place from the war. The, surprise
party was made up of Germans"
| You can't get away from the war In
France In the north thew really scrap
while in the snutln and everywhere
else they are training.
Private Pierre Moreav. rs years OF
| age so badly wounded at the front as
/ 10 De permanently t'SCHdi Seu iioHI
the army and Granted a pension OF
/ 400 francs still suffered from the
"call Of battle" Hi- thirst for the
front so stimulated his mental acttv-
/ ity that he conceived Man that
would permit him once more to have
a rife IN his hands and an enemy be-
fore him.
PRESENTING himself before the com
missary Of Clisnancourt- Private
Pierre announced that he had desert
! ed repented bitterly and asked that
| for pun'ehment he be sent back to the
front ranks
| Unfortunately for Private Pierre
the ccmmtssarv was Obliged first to
/ establish the facts. and as conse'
nuence the disanpointed soldier is try
| ing to devise another way.
| On the English font in France 1t
lis con adentlv asserted by the Tom
mics that one Of the results OF the
! war-if not the most important result
will be tho Introduction in London
! of the open-atr cafe-chantant. so pop
luIsr in nearly all continental coun-
tries. This is an Institution fhat Lon
don-lareelv for climatic reasons
has heretofore INDIGNANTLY repulsed
Tonn,.- at tho French front now.
lever. has formed such an attachment
lfor the Institution which ID one Oh