Show the tb pauine or f the conservative great britain has lit at lut awakened awaken td to the inutility ot of the sword in actual latter day warfare in fact act the sin ann kissed blade has come to be recognized as aa worse than useless by br the leaders of the army in south africa the practice ot at carrying carry lut on the battlefields Is thought to have had no little effect in the tha lists of casualties arnous among the officers and now new we hear bear that walking or riding stocks have bare been bean generally adopted they serve equally well as aa pointers and in alose quarters make really eitt octive it if ra not adorth orthodox od ox WIN weapons APOns of offense and defense la in fact a loaded cane in a hand to hand fight la Is hard to beat for effective nem naturally the tha new order met a storm of disapproval from certain quarters and wu was criticized by the london press as aa well as aa around the camp time some borne of the highland regiments menta particularly loath to give up their claymores cla ymores because almost every blade was endeared to its possessor by TO morlea rl els of glorious lor lous deeds la in which father grandfather or great grandfather had participated many of the scotch blades had bad seen service berries at Cul culloden lodea and waterloo and on other bloody fields and it seemed hard bard to lay them down in the faco of the sturdiest diest lest toes england has met in the last half century but it was p pointed out that now new conditions had to be met and that common sense must take the place of tradition and the claymore went along alone with the other blades in looking about for an for the order to dispense with the sword the army statistician lelan discovered that even in bygone by gone days it had not always been a necessary of victory and pointed out a number of valorous valarous deeds in which it played no part it was waa shown that in tho the famous charge charee at Om durman col IL H martin led his men with nothing more formidable than a bantling crop and that Gordon the celebrated gordon gardon headed storming parties and led charge after charge with a little cane can which them the men mea of hla his ever victor foual army got to know as ahe maglo magic wand 1 the effectiveness of famous cavalry during the american civil war was wash soon recognized and that his ideas in armane each man with fill a heavy Colt pistol and having their swords humr butic from their moir saddles and used only to cut ut fl were approved Is evidenced in the fact that today the united states cavalryman wears nests hla his sword on an his instead of at his waist and uses used it 0 only n 17 when tie he utoca G globe I 1 6 b e |