The sun., 1917-08-24
THE EFFECTIVE AND CRUSHING WORK
OF RUBBER TIRED CAVALRY
Aids the Infantry and Protection the
Stranded Russian Artillery.

And now it is the rubber tired
cavalry!
The horse that eats gasolene. that
requires no tether. no lariat and no
cooling down at the end Of the day.
has come to take a new. unique and
important place in the refined art OF
killing people at wholesale that men
have for many ages glorified under the
name Of war.
In all Of the chapters upon war,
from the time Of Philip Of Macedon
down to Pershing, there Is nothing
that offers so interesting a study as
the armored car. 1t came into its own
for the first time in Galicia but few
days ago. From this time on the mill
tary instructors will have to revise
their teachings and their tactics to fit
the innovation. 1t is true that the
armored car came along in Belgium
in the early days when the forts at
Liege were preventing a speedy re-
making of the worlds map. But they
came then as independent factors
which played about the fringes Of the
war game without definite place.
In Galicia they were regularly fitted
into place as coordinating units in
general scheme. as powerful aids to
the infantry and as the most impor-
tant protection for stranded artillery
that the brain of man had as yet de-
vised. 1t was no fault OF theirs that
! the motor cars did not save the Rus
sian artillery. They did their part.
They did 1t wonderfully well, with the
most scientific accuracy and with re-
suits that have made old army officers
revise their ideas about rear guard
| fighting. Had the Russian infantry
been faithful to its trust the armored
cars would have saved every gun.
The distance to Galicia is great.
| There are men on the battle fronts
| closer to home who are closer to heart
| So the popular mind has paid little at
tention to the performances Of the
| motors because 1t did not travel far
enough from the more familiar scenes,
the more familiar names and the men
who are more closely connected with
our Ne-teTIl ne AiHeIlCduS lIlOuS
Of Galicia chiefly as n land that con-
tanned small towns which had gone
amuck in the alphabet seeking names
that suggested the arrangement Of a
set of blocks in an infantile asylum
for the weak minded.
| The fact that three entire armies
armies in every sense of the word ex-
cepting that they lacked a concen-
trated command-were advancing
over a front as wide as from New
York to Baltimore did not seem to
make much impression in this coun.
try. But it fell to the lot of this ad-
vance the first that the Russians
made after Alexander +. kerensky
came to the virtual dictatorship of a
chaotic realm, to prove to the soldier.
of all lands that an automobile with
a game chauffeur and a proper arma
ment Is worth its weight in real gold
Nobody seemed to realize that an,
particular attention had been paid to
the equipment of these new Russian
armies. The public read the names o
unpronounceable towns which they
passed on their eastward sweep with
languid interest.
Suddenly the name of Locker Lamp
son began to trouble the wires. Lamp
son surely bore no Russian patronymiC
What could he be doing along TIT
line with men whose names wer,
formed of Consonants on spree
Lampson had brought along the Brit
ish motor cars. They were of small
use on the western front, where tn,
armies are dcadlocked in trenches witt
the Allies trying to squirm out Of I
system of fighting that the German
wished upon them at the outset Ever
the British. who developed the Ameri
can idea. did not attach any great i'm
portance to the scheme.
Cavalry horses had been eating thei
heads off without any chance to add t
the gayety OF nations, and cavalrymel
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