| Show BICYCLE IN WAR test made in england is a big surprise new york aug 27 maj major general I 1 sir frederick maurice attracted considerable sid erable attention about a year ago by his attempts to prove to british officers that the bicycle wag worth taking more seriously in military manoel he organized abig corps of bicycle volunteers tor a test ot his scheme but their evolutions were not a great success at the first trial major maurice avers the london correspondent ol 01 the press has just tried his plan again with a body of 1300 cyclists of aldershof aldershot Alder shot his success was so complete that many observers and even some of the sd military critics predict that the cyclist is to be the mounted infantryman of the future at any rate it te contended that these aldershof aldershot Alder shot prove the wheel to be much too good tor se only in dispatch bearing scouting and as at present the 1300 cyclists carrying kit rifle and ammunition left aldershof aldershot Alder shot at S in tho morning and reached bagshot in perfect order with intervals and space preserved in time than cavalry makei on the same journey they were inspected by the british officers and then marched an counter maTched moved double quick covering twelve miles in fifty six minutes and put through all the evolutions that would have been required of them in actual warfare the num ber of punctured tires was remarkable small and there was surprisingly little confusion |
