New Britain herald., 1922-02-23
CAVALRY WON WAR
 COL. DAVIS SAYS
At Least as Much as Was Fought
 in Palestine

Washington, Feb. e3.--CaNaliy won the war--at least so much ct the world conflict as was fought onf m Palestine--accordin to Lieut., Col, Edward Davis r. $. Army, who has just returned 10 Washington to pre- sent 10 the general staff his ohserva- tions on more than six years service with the armies of other nations
 Before the entry of the Tinted States in the World War, and after wards, Col. Davis served with the forces of Great Britain, France. Rus sia. Italy. Serbia and Greece. Later he served as military attache In Hol- land and at Berlin. According 10 Col. Davis, his most valuable military experience was with the British cav airy during the Jerusalem campaign and he stated he was surprised to md that so little was known in the Unit ed States regarding the facts of Gen eral Allenby's two remarkable cam paigns in the Holy Land. each or which he characterized as "an eX- uuisite example of the combined op- erations of all arms of the service un- der a master strategist and a great natural leader of men,"
 Tn both the Jerusalem and Damas- GUS campaigns, Col. Davis said, the master stroke was delivered by the cavalry. He described several of the mounted charges made by Allenby's forces, and explained that the most striking results were attained by those swift and unexpected blows at enemy infantry and artillery groups.
 After the British had reached what looked like stalemate on the Gaza-Beersheba line." Col. Davis said, .it was decided to employ cavalry in A final effort to pierce the Turkish defenses. The British strategists de- cided cavalry could operate best against one end of the line, and mounted squadron was sent to bite orr an end of the entrenchments that had resisted every effort at capture. Within an hour the cavalry had ef- fected contact with the Turks, and then began a process that might best be decribed as rolling up that thin line that SO long had resisted every success of that operation was . complete success, and the entire line was in British control within ten hours.
 "The value of cavalry against heavy artillery was strikingly demon- strated at Hui, where the 60th divison was engaged. The cavalry under Colonel Shea charged 12 cannon pro- tected machine gun nests, and in ten minutes had captured Il of the big guns and cleaned out the nests. The The success of that operation was repeated in the charge at El-Mughar one week later. There the cavalry charged to the top of hill 125 feet high, with 20 per cent grade, and, leaping over a series of trenches cap tured three Krupp IT'S and nearly a score of machines guns.
 without water, without baggage of any sort, the cavalry made long hard marches and outf1anked the enemy column again and again. Fin ally, on the plain of Armageddon, the last struggle took place. During the first stage of that battle the Turks fought we'll but were steadily forced back. Presently the Turkish front between the sea and the Jor- dan was broken, and through the gap along the sea coast Al|enby launched his cavalry which swept northward and then eastward to Nazareth, across the rear of the whole Turkish host. The German commander. Liman Won Sanders, barely escaped from the net by preci- pitate flight, but what was left of the Turkish armies. more than 60,000 men and 400 guns fell into Al'enby's hands. A month later Turkey cap itulated."