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Show ! BRITISH INFANTRY IS HELD SUPERIOR j By Reason of Calmness and Deliberation Englflh Foot Soldiers Accomplish More in Line of Execution. j Special Cable to The Tribune. PARTS. Oct. 2. The special correspondent corre-spondent of a Paris newspaper at the i Russian front tells of a talk he had with j a superior Russian officer, a prince well I known in Paris society. This officer had been charged with the duty of questlon-I questlon-I ing German prisoners. He found that, in ! their opinion, the French were superior ! In artillery, the Russians ln cavalry and j the British in infantry. ( "Which is the best Infantry?" the Rus-1 Rus-1 slan asked. I "If It Is that which. In proportion to Its number, 'kills' the most, then it is . the infantry of the professional Emguah regiments which came forward t " the 'beginning of the campaign. These foot i soldiers never fired at random, they alined as at a target, and have no equals for j landing yon a hall in the skin. "The French troops, carried away with their enthusiasm, seek alwavs the ' hand--to-hand fighting, where, besides, i hey are terrible. But It Is a general observation obser-vation that they often fire too high, and we hear their balls whistle over our heads The same observation applies to the Rua-slan Rua-slan Infantry." |