| Show ARMING CAVALRY HORSES A new weapon to go underneath the llor aoa girth captain IV F r pool of the british army has invented and tested a contrivance tr for adding to tho the effective fighting strength of tho the cavalry the 1 invention consists of an attach attachment nt for rifles of or other fire arms t 0 M harness of cavalry horses in su tt rt t manner that they may while isto goat at cached bo be fired at the will of I 1 the rider fitted to the upper side of tho the girth or belly band is a clip or other suitable appliance for sustaining 0 the firearm in a central pos tion longitudinally under chobody the body of tho the horse hor th muzzle end of tho the firo arm projecting forward in tho the direction of and preferably beyond the chest of the animal tho the barrel passing I 1 between his forelegs fore legs suitable attachments are also fitted to the harness to support and adjust tho the firearm fire fird arm the rider is provided with moans means for discharging the firearm fire arm while the latter remains in the position above described these rhose means may consist of mechanical electrical pneumatic or other appliances in working by moans of electricity says the united service gazette a battery accumulator or dynamo may many befitted bo fitted to tile the saddle and electromagnets or other appliances may b be fitted so as to operate tho the trigger of tho the firearm fire arm being effected by wire so arranged 0 that by touching a button the electric force causes tho the piece to fire the operation being repeated as required until the firearm fire arm has discharged its ammunition i A bearing rein or other attachment attach mon t to tho the bit or brodlo is arranged to the animals head being lowered when the gun is being fired experiments with captain I 1 cells at made rece recently atly attao aty att bo curragh and at the ight antl proved that the rifle could bo be fired 11 with the attachment without starting ng the horse and with a fair degree 0 of accuracy at short ranges 4 it has been objected that captain Captai nj peels invention could not be used alth I 1 I 1 the present cavalry drill but it ma may 3 very fairly bo be argued that drill sh should depend on weapons and not weapons on drill that if cavalry would be advantaged vant aged by the addition of this now new mode of offense offence the drill must bo be mod 11 ilca cd so far as may be necessary to admit of its introduction |
