New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-05


horses comfortable and put them in the
best condition for the strenuous work thew
were soon to be called upon to do.
The men in each remount station are d
vlded into four or five squadrons. One
squadron takes charge of the heavy draught
horses, another of the light draught horses.
a third OF the cavalry mounts, and fourth
perhaps of the officers charges So the
animals from the ship are divided up among
the several squadrons and carefully looked
after until the army wants them Presently
there is call for SO many horses of a
particular class, men from the army come
for them and they go to the front. Then
begins a strenuous life which will tax the
strength and health Of any horse, no mat
ter how strong or robust he may be-
Not all have chance to sniff the battle
even from affair. Some spend their DAYS
hauling logs for the making of cantonments
or for supporting trench walls and dugouts;
others distribute hay and other food to the
animals in the camps far behind the fight
ing lines. But thousands are used in the
artillery and cavalry, and thousands more
for drawing supplies to the front. For the
field artillery light draught horses are used,
animals which combine speed with strength,
and which when called upon can gallon
their guns into line. Theirs is dangerous
work, for the great chessboard of war
the artillery is one of the most powerful
pieces, and the enemy makes. unusual eff
forts to remove it. AS it goes steadily for
ward over good roads or bad over rough
ground, through woodland or swamp, the
bombing airplanes seek to wipe it out; the
observation planes signal it's position to
the deadly batteries far behind. The shells
begin to fall, but the trained men and the
trained horses simply increase their speed
The shower CT Shells becomes storm and
the mounted gunners urge their painting
horses to the gallop. big shell bursts
in the midst of the train, a gun and its
carriage are tossed in the air. and its men
and horses lie dead and mangled.
If the road is narrow there is momen-
tary pause. The dead men are lifted
gently but quickly to one side; the fallen
animals are dragged out of the way, some
one puts a mercful bullet into the ear of
a grooming horse who has been less for
tunate than his dead companions, and the
gunners behind gallop over the she'll
torn road as if each man were hurrying
to his wedding.
Come with me to wild part of the
French coast. 1t is a bright moonlight
night and we see between us and the
sparkling water a black maze of barbed-
wire ENHANCEMENT stretched in seemingly
endless line along the shore. There is
sound of muffled hoofbeats on the sand be-
hind us. and we turn to see band of
horsemen, superbly mounted and with light
flashing from their rounded helmets. They
single file pass through a secret, narrow
gap, and above the tossing names of their
horses the dark-cloaked figures are seen
again the moonlit They give rein to
their restless, steeds, whose hoofs scatter
spray at every stride and are quickly lost
to view. They are French cavalry, and
are part of the coast patrol, which rides
the coast day and night to guard the
safety Of the Allies.
We have heard little of cavalry on the
Western front since the carly days Of the
war when the immortal Scots Greys went
through at Mons, as they did at Waterloo,
with a killed Highlander hanging to the
right stlrrup strap of every horse. But
in Palestine it played it's part as in the
days of old, and was great feature Of
one Of tho greatest campaigns the world
has ever seen. For weeks while the in
fantry and artillery pounded the stubborn
Turkish front, thes English war horses
neighed and paved behind the British
lines. Then when the enemy wavered and
broke, Allenby looscd his whirwnd cavalry.
Like the vengeance. Of God it swept over
the field, and resisting Turks went down
before sabre and lance like grass before
the scythc. Death or surrender was the
choice they had, and those who were not
killed threw down their arms and were
rounded ur by the hundred thousand. With
the hoofs Of his galoping horses Allenby
ploughed the soil Of Palestine in such
fashion that the seed Of the Turk will never
sprout again.
First Aid for
The Carriers
or course, horses and mules are Just MS
subject 10 shell and bullet and shrapncl
wounds AZ men are; perhaps rather more
30, az they are taller and often Inherent
missiles which would pass over the heads
Of men No estimate Of the number killed
in the great war has yet been made, but
1t must be very large. Thousands pcrshcd
before yerdun alone In making good tho