Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-09 | Page 14 | Infantry and Cavalry Will Soon be Obsolete

INFANTRY AND CAVALRY WILL SOON BE OBSOLETE LONDON. Infantry and cavalry, which have been the "bread and butter" but-ter" of the armies of the world since the days of Alexander the Great, will soon be obsolete, according to Lieu-tenauL Lieu-tenauL W. S. King-Hall. In a remarkable .article in "The Journal of the Royal United Service Institution," he writes: "In the near future the actual destruction de-struction of enemy communications ; which .feed armies on foot and horse i soldiers will be unnecessary because1 there will he no foot and horse soldiers, sol-diers, except for ceremonial purposes. These men will then he regarded much as today we regard the Beefeaters. "The transport tank will eliminate tho use of sabres and bayonets. The transport tank will have a speed of thirty miles an hour. About 125 of these tanks will convey 10.000 men."