The Mena weekly star., 1917-11-29
BRITISH CAVALRY JUSTIFIED HOPES
ln Last Great Advance It Made Thrilling Charges and Rode Down the Enemy Gunners-Tanks
 Did Great Work.

British Army Headquarters in France, Nov 2i Delayed The present battle, more than any other in the western theatre, has taken on the savor of fighting in other wars when men struggled in the open and cavalry made thrilling charges against the enemy guns. Many military critics long have con- tended that cavalry was a thing of the past but the mounted men have refuted this claim.
 Field Marshal Haig has chung to his horse troops turnout the weary months of trench fighting. He be- lieved that some day he would have chance to use them and his iudg- ment has been vindicated.
 High Class Strategy.
 Field Marshal Haig's blow against the Cambrai front represents true strategy. He has hammered at the enemy in Flanders until they were worn out completely. He has driven them back as far as the mud would permit and had compelled them to call on every ounce of strength they had to maintain themselves. Then he suddenly sprung his surprise at tack in an unexpected quarter.
 The Hindenburg lines on the Cambrai front were the strongest the Germans had laid out in the west. The enemy considered them impregnable. Not only were they strongly fortified but they were protected by very deep belt of barbed wire which it was thought that only protracted bombardment by great concentration of guns would cut sufficiently to allow the infantry to go thru.
 The British infantry, which swarmed thru behind the tanks, saw the predicament of their iron friends and deliberately charged the enemy artillery with rifles and hand grenades. All the guns were cap tured and their crews killed.
 Ride Down German Gunners.
 A similar incident occurred at Premy Chappelle, northwest of Mar coing, where three guns were stormed and their crews annihilated. some of the most spectacular work of this nature fell to the cavalry. The mounted troops got into Marco ing and Masnieres last night and, in the latter town, engaged in san guinary battle with German infan- try. An enemy battery there was giving trouble and squad of horse men charged the position, shooting or sabering the entire gun crew. Another battery at Rumilly was tak{ en in similar fashion. '
 Graincourt was carried by storm, cavalry, tanks and infantry working together. British forces at the lat est reports have carried their line Tn this section northward to the Bapaume-Cambrai road.
 The Germans ran from Ribeeourt with the British close at their heels. This town is mass of ruins, partly on account of shell fire and partly from lack of repairs. The German dugouts were left intact.
 Great Day for Cavalry.
 Military necessity precIuded the mention of cavalry in the first dis patches regarding the present of fensive, but it may now be said that the mounted men went into action at il:30 o'clock yesterday morning, after the tanks had opened the way thru the barbed wire. This was one of the features of the battle in which General Pershing appeared to take deep interest while he was at the front yesterday. It has been a wonderful two days for the horse- men who had been relegated to rear areas of the western front, with few exceptions, since early in the war. Thousands of them have op- erated over a wide are beyond the Hindenburg line.
 Time and MunitiOn Savers.
 British tanks had never before been called upon for such exten- sive work, but they did in a few hours what the artillery would have required days to accomplish. The Hindenburg line was pierced abso- lutely on wide front and to a greater depth than ever before.
 The correspondent today inspect cd the main Hindenburg line near Havrincourt and saw the amazing work done by the iron monsters. In most places they had no trouble either in tearing thru the wire or in crossing the trenches. There were gaps in the wire entanglements a rod in width where not one vestage of wire was left standing and by following the tracks of the tanks one could see where they had trun- died across the trenches as tho they were merely scratches in the ground instead of wide deep ditches.
 The tanks, of course, went thru No Mans Land under the full ob- servation of the German artillery and while the gunfire was weak, some fire was directed on the tanks as they advanced. It was interest ing to follow the trail of the tanks and to see where the shells struck all about apparently without doing any damage. for in this whole sec tion the correspondent did not see on tank which had been knocked