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Show CAVALRY LOSSES ARE APPALLING Wastage of Hcrscs Tremendous Tremen-dous Germans Hampered in France by Insufficiency of Horses. London, September 14, 4 15 a. in ; A dispatch to the Express from Par-j is says: "The German losses in cavalry are appalling. A German cavalrv officer who competed at the Olympia horse show a few years ago. and Is now a i prisoner, estimates that the wastage in cavalry horses, especially in Belgium, Bel-gium, amounts to two-thirds of tho total strength allotted to the army operating In the direction of Paris. "The Germans flooded Belgium with reconnoiterlng parties, but In tho ad ance through France they were hampered by an Insufficiency of horses. hor-ses. Many horses had been taken from German batteries for the use of tho cavalry', but despite this large numbers of cavalrymen marched aa infantrymen. |