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Show OPEN WARFARE BRINGS CAVALRY INTO ITS OWN AGAIN . . . ih linrsfmeii were escaping. Th The cavalry was again called to attack the enemy. They did and no more splendid sight has been een along the battleline than when they came charging across the lield as in the days of old work of death. Half a uunoruu v" enemy lay dead, when the rest took to their heels and tied toward Rummy. The cavalry commander then was out of touch with the rest of the advancing advanc-ing British forces and decided to remain re-main in the sunken road for a time until he could get orders. Accordingly Accord-ingly he sent back a courier to carry information as to the location of the squad. It developed quickly that an- straight into the bank3 of machine i;uus scattered anions the trees. The first charge gave the horsemen a foothold foot-hold In the wood. They reformed and eurgod forward again. This time they got to the center of the forest. Once more they drove their horses full-tilt full-tilt against the German line. The latter lat-ter held for a little and then fagged antl broke and the British stormed their way clear through the wood to the eastern tide, the enemy fleeing he-fore he-fore them. Behind them the ground was strewn with German dead and wounded. The Germans Immediately reorganized reorgan-ized for 'a counter-attack and hero the horso gunners accomplished more gallant work. As the enemy massed In the open, the artillerymen poured large quantities of shell into their ranks, one battery alone llrlng 2000 rounds at the target. For an hour the German infantry marched exposing themselves to the hail of death. They kept coming forward, hut only a few straight into the banks of machine ' V""V"V work of death. Half a "u"u, u took guns scattered aruonK the trees. The , caUed to attack .HP X hLS untoward Rumil.y-In Rumil.y-In st charge gave the horsemen a foot- - .. . . V, ' MtJ to ine.r ihto . ho!d in the wood. They reformed and the enemy. They did and 1.0 X1 The comn landc, then washout surged forward again. This time they more splendid sight has been teen ,.rS" , UTJ rtJ ta-oes Md decided to got to the center of the forest. Once battleline than when they f, i mlin n the sunken road for a time more they drove their horses full- 6 ' t ?":.-;. . . J maln " orders Accord-lilt Accord-lilt against the German line. The lat- came charging across the held as in Vv unt" ," 'I Mok courier To carry ter held for a little and then sagged the days of old JfA ' "fon, wtion hs to the location of the and broke and the British stormed ' udeve.opcd quickly that-an- their way clear through the wood to ; jgj : fff A J squan. the eastern tide, the enemy fleeing he- v f SvV. fore them. Behind them the ground s2Srii . ltr V Wfl' V. WH strewn with German dead and 4&& " jscrv 3 :-SSst 'M The Germans Immediately reorgan- pV vj.. "ifl- J&tT '$F'?'$2V''i "W" V "x5'''"v;i''' ized for 'a counter-attack and hero """ JSv" jSiVl&V' NvWMd'A, .- """$'. jN.x?; V. --jS-.v the horso gunners accomplished more V 4Sfl: : '''Nff'! ' :--".' iV gallant work. As the enemy massed j 'X. '. A; V N- Uw3l'Us4'w-v : J" V-V V''' W;'X':'': Copyright, inis. by Public Lrr-uca Company "pvESPITE the many efforts of army officials of the Allied nation to have cavalry reglmenta transformed into light and heavy artillery, because of their incompetence in trench warfare, war-fare, the recent BUixcsuea of cavalry commands attached t.i General Halg's army in chocking the German offensive offen-sive emphailzea the further need of the mounted organisations in this and future wars. The cavalry had made history long before all Europe had arrayed itself to suppress the common foe of democracy. democ-racy. During the present German offensive of-fensive the cavalry got its long-desired wish to distinguish and to prove to the world once again that mounted men still constitute a force to be reckoned reck-oned with and that the service l not a useless adjunct of the army. These inountea organizations have at no other time since the beginning of the great conflict been able to play such an Important part In this war as they have during tho great battles bat-tles which have taken place on tho western front recently. They have heen stretched along the battle line, filling in gaps, strengthening the line and covering the retirement of the infantry. in-fantry. During tho first three days of the Teuton drive the mounted men accomplished valuable work, fighting mostly on font. Dismounted cavalrymen cavalry-men held the Ollczy-Ham line, whero the lighting was terrific, while the Infantrymen In-fantrymen withdrew. One party of dragoons was cut off all night, during which they were out in the open battling bat-tling for their Uvea. Finally, they cut their way through the enemy's lines at Jtissy by main force. On the 2nd' the cavalry came into its own, for the horses were brought forward und the troopers began a series se-ries of spectacular feats. When Noyon was first threatened cavalry was rent to hold the line of the Olse west of tho town. The. British Brit-ish infantry was forced to fall hack on the 215th, and tho cavalry was pulled back also with the intention of occupying occupy-ing tho rldgc near the village of Pcr-c;uerticourt. Pcr-c;uerticourt. in tho vicinity of Noyon. The Germans we.ro also aiming to get a foothold on this hill. A race developed de-veloped between the horsemen and the onemy infantry across the rolling ground. Both reached the forest at about tho same time, but the .cavalry lost no tlmo and rushed through the forest against, the Germans. An intense in-tense battle at close quarters ensued and tho cavalry was doing great execution execu-tion whon the order came for them to fall back in order to cover the retirement retire-ment of the infantry, which had succumbed suc-cumbed to pressure at other points. The mounted men withdrew from the wood and brought up the rear, pausing often to fight rearguard actions with the hotly pressing enemy. When word came from the British command that the wood northwest of Moreuil was filled with enemy infantry, in-fantry, who had brought forward great numbers of machine guns, which were mounted in every available vantage van-tage point, even in trees, the gallant horsemen were called upon to clear the wood out. They responded and camo pounding up to the wood in a picturesque manner. Here part of them dismounted and went on foot, but the Canadian horse tore on into tho forest and hurled themselves on the enemy. The Germans slowly gave way before the onslaught until the western part of the wood had been cleared. The cavalry was again called upon on April 1 to attack the enemy. They did and no more splendid sight has been seen along the battle line than when they came charging across the field as in days of old and drove chine guns came into action against the galloping horses and the troopers meantime made good their escapeA from the road. They started baci?H( hut. losing their way, at ono tlm 1 were actually In the outskirts o( Rumilly. The Canadians continued their journey toward what th?v thought the British lines. As thcy were proceeding they were challenged by a German officer with nine men It happened that among the troopen was a. little chap who spoke German fluently. He was sent forward -with orders to engage the officer in conversation conver-sation until the rest of the troopers could close in with their sabers. Tho little emissary fulfilled his mis. .-ion by engrossing the attention ol the officer with a. cock and bull story to which the German listened because he did not know that the British cavalry cav-alry was in his zone. He listened a mo. ment too long, however, for the Cam. dlans rushed in and killed the men accompanying the enemy officer. The latter was taken prisonor and com-pelled com-pelled to conduct the horsemen back to their lines. The retreat from Mons and tin Battle of the Marno and the Alsne were also successful bocause of the gallantry of the horse soldiers. German cavalry advanced rapidly at the head of their army when they in-vaded in-vaded devastated Belgium and as long as the campaign was one of orn lighting they rendered valuable BervV ices, but with the boginning of trench ' warfare, the usefulness of the cavalry caval-ry ceased. Scouting was done by air fleets, so that part of the cavalrymen'! duties was dispensed with. Charges there were nono, after the first fow weeks on the western front, so the greater part of the cavalry was dis-mounted dis-mounted and put in the trenches with tho infantry and the artillery. Both Russia and Austria-Hungary organized large divisions during their mobilization periods. Cavalry divisions were completely equipped with horse-artillery, horse-artillery, machine guns and supply trains to make them self-supporting. These large bodies of cavalrymen worked independently and successfully on the east front until the period of movement came to an end and then the cavalry, as on the western front, was put among the infantry, and artillery. Although these factors militate against the cavalryman, he is still and will always prove an important factor on the battlefields. In wars but a lit. tie while ago glittering squadrons were deciding factors. Napoleon at Friedland (1807) cheered his charging cuirassiers, led by Murat, up the hill at double quick and took the opposing batteries. Ney, at the head ot the flower of the French cavalry, charged the BritiBh squares at Water-loo Water-loo in 1815. Among the other famc cavalry charges are the charge of th Light Brigade at Balaclava during the Crimean "War; Hanoverian cavalry; against the squares of Prussian infan-, try at Langensalz in 1866; thoseyf the Union and the Confederate cavalry regiments during the Civil War, and of the French horse at Reichshofen. Kegardless of all arguments offered by those army officials, the cavalry a indispensable in open fighting. The special job of the mounted men is to harass the slow-moving infantry and artillery and to act in conjunction with the aviators as the ears and eyes of the army and also to protect the flanks of the infantry. And we must not forget that trench warfare must give way again to fighting fight-ing in the open. If cavalry were thought to be of no use the higher commands would have long since dismounted dis-mounted the cavalry and placed the men in the trenches. reached the wood and the attack was smashed by the troopers. Canadian cavalry participated in the British advance against Cambrai during dur-ing the latter part of last year, when the Hindenburg line was smashed and the enemy driven back on Cambrai. Stories of gallant charges with drawn sabers against enemy batteries and into strong infantry positions have been innumerable, but perhaps none had a more exciting time than a party of Canadian cavalry who took their way in a northeasterly direction from Masnieres after the eventful smashing ot the Hindenburg line. They swept proudly out of Mas- nieres on their chargers, with their sabers making merry music against their trappings. They returned afoot, and thereby hangs a narrative of bravery and strategy which is worth recording. For a considerable distance the horsemen cantered along over the rolling grasslands without encountering encounter-ing any enemy. East of Ruinilly, however, how-ever, they came upon several British tanks, which had run almost into a . German battery position and were being flrcd at pointblank by great guns. The monitors were in a tight place and needed assistance badly. They got it. The cavalry came pound ing up in columns of four, and their leader, sizing up the situation, sent them swerving in on either side of the battery. Then they charged In straight among the gun crews, their sabers flashing. It was over in a moment mo-ment and the last enemy lay trampled upon. This incident finished, the cavalry cav-alry trotted off in search of other adventures. Not far away was a sunken road which concealed considerable consid-erable enemy forces armed with machine ma-chine guns. Cavalry scouts discovered this trap and, dashing back, gave word to the commander. The latter snapped out a command and a squad, most of whom still were unaware of the pres ence of the sunken road, divided into two bodies, one of which deployed to the right toward a break in the wall, of the road, while the other drew their sabers and charged straight ahead. The Germans, not knowing that British cavalry was in operation, still remained in the ditch, and the Canadians Cana-dians reached the edge of the miniature minia-ture precipice without seeing the enemy. They saw them then in numbers num-bers and realized for the first time that they were headed for a drop of several feet to the road level. Not a horseman hesitated. They took the flying leap straight down among the surprised Germans and began their other force of German gunners were stationed in a commanding position nearby. These opened a grueling Are on the cavalry and succeeded in killing kill-ing several horses within a short time. It became apparent that the men and the rest of the horses must suffer suf-fer the same fate if they remained whero they were. The commander knew it would be suicide to ride out in the open, and he seized upon an ingenious plan to outwit the Germans. The horses were gathered together and stampeded with their empty saddles sad-dles in the direction of Cambrai. The ruse worked, for the Germans, peering peer-ing through the mist, thought the |