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Show Ktcyoleii Ju War. The present campaign in South Africa Af-rica is practically the first opportunity the military authorities have had of putting the cycle corps to a real test. As scouts and skirmishers they have proved most useful. The cyclist corps attached to the Durban Light infantry recently covered a route of ninety miles in one day for the purpose of obtaining information of the Boer forces, doing no small amount of fighting fight-ing on the way. The rapidity of their movement startles the enemy, who ought to be unable to cope with the tactics a eyele corps adopts. They seem able to get away with most anything, however. |