The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1920-01-02
LACK OF CAVIAR
COST MANY LIVES
ADEQUATE SUPPLY OF HORSES
WOULD HAVE GROUND HUNS
INTO DUST.
ENEMY ALLOWED TO ESCAPE
Work Of Remount Board Must Receive
Thoughtful Encouragement Of All
Americans II We Are to Occupy
Place Of World Leadership.

tlonal defense Is Of higher Significance
than the proposition OF military horse
supply The military side Of American
life means more now that the United
States has, perforee, assumed dOml
ilnnt role In world politics, than IT. has
IN the past II Is agreed by farseelDg
statesmen that economic and political
eyeutualltIes will IL decade or 81
f0rte the United States into a position
Of military leadership in the world
whether that sort of leadership may
seem desirable to the great majority
Of the people or not
II is hardly necessary to say that
the great war proved that, more than
eyer Is the horse, and the right sort
of Horse. Indispensable to the success
ful prosecution of military operations
II ls~only repetition TO say that the
strategy of the American expeditions
aiy force 10 France last year and the
year before was repeatedly and serl-
Ously embarrassed by the woeful In
suiiiclency of Its horse equipment and
Of the discOuraging lnefilclency of the
horses that were sent overseas by the
hardworked remount division Of the
army on this side, albeit these animals
were the very best the country had IL
send. They were the comblngs Of the
entire country.
Supply Of ALLIES Depleted.
The embarrassment Of the armI OF
the powers associated with the Uni
ted States In the struggle against Ger
man world domination was not so
great as was that experienced by the
forces of Pershlng, built was serious
nevertheless The horse supply of
Great Britain and France, although
reinforced by tremendous fmporta-
lions from the United States, South
America, South Africa, Canada nnj
Australia, had been terribly depleted
by the casualties OF three years of
fighting by the time our armies be-
came formidable. No requirements
were available.
Thousands Of fine young lives were
sacrificed In the titanic struggle thar
ragged from the English channel to III
frontier OF Switzerland from the be-
ginning OF 1918 to the middle OF No
vember because the underhorslng OF
allied artillery limited the protection
that artillery should have rendered to
the attacking infantry. Ludendorf re-
peatedly refers In his story Of the Ger
man defeat to merciful pauses (mercl.
full to the hard pressed German army
In the French. British and American
attack that enabled his commanders
to extricate hard fighting divisions
from perilous positions that were ne
cessltated by the inability of the at
lacking artillery and transport serv-
ices to keep pace with the advancing
Infantry.
Unnecessary hardship had to be en-
dured by the combat troops of the adj
vunclng forces OF civilization because
poor horsing in the transport services
rendered impossible the bringing up OF
supplies In punctual military fashion.
The fruits Of victory were lost time
and again because Of the lmposslbillty
Of promptly exploiting the achieve.
mepts Of Infantry by the employment
OF large bodies OF cavalry. The lack
OF cavalry at st. Mihlel. at Chateau
Thierry, In the Argonne and at Sedan
made American officers stepped In the
traditions OF Forrest and Stuart, OF
Pleasanton and Sheridan fairly cry.
There We're spme so called cavalry reg
lments in the A. e. f., but they were
not cavalry. At no time was single
American cavalry regiment mounted
Victory Would Have Been Great.
Even the cavalry OF the British and
French armies, which had been fairly
well horsed at the beginning of the
war and more carefully conserved than
had been the cavalry Of the other men,
bers of the antl-German alliance, was
found wholly insufficient to push home
victory and convert mere defeats of
the German armies into routs In COM
parison with which the French disas-
ters OF Sedan and Metz in 1870 would
have been considered by the military
writer's of the future as orderly mill
tary operations.
The entente allies and the United
States had about three and half mil
lion soldiers In the field on the west
ern front In October. 1918. when they
began to press the previously success
full Germans back toward the Rhine IN
deadly earnest II 100000 to 100000
Of these fighting men had been cavalry
mounted on half bred horses, the best
military opinion in this country and n
France and Great Britain holds, the
German defeat would have been the
most complete and most humiliating
defeat In military history. There
would have been no fairly~orderly
withdrawal of the soldiers of the Ger
man Crown Prince, Of Rupprecht, the
Brute, Of Van Galwltz, OF Won Arnim
and of Won Boehn across the Rhine to
be received AT. home as unbeaten he
roess The bulk of the German forces
that began their march thrust for
Paris and victory in pride and inso-
lence under the eye of the violet pick
ing HoheDzollern paranoiac would