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Now they their iron horses

By H. V. MORTON

LIEUTENANT with the face of his sister came · over to the ante-room fire and lit a cigarette. It had been whispered to me that this child had performed fearless deeds in France with the cavalry tanks.

He talked to me about modern war in a cold, dis- passionate way. It was posi- Lively hair-raising to hear such a gentle, lady-like young man describe horrors without a trace of emotion.

He might have been describ- ing a vicarage tea party. His was the voice, and his the eyes, of a disillusioned genera- tion.

"It beats me why people in this country haven't been told some of the filthy tricks the Germans played on the French civilians," he said. "I should have thought it would have been good stuff for our Minis- try of Information; but I sup- pose it's not gentlemanly enough for them.

"Tough Guys"

"You know that tanks lie up at night in what we call harbours, generally a lonely wood or a little village. The German tank crews are taught to go without food and drink for a whole day, sometimes longer. They like doing it, Loo; Tough guys-you know the idea?

"Well, the consequence is that, when night comes, they are hungry as wolves. They And u harbour, stuff their bellies till they can hardly move and go to sleep. That's the time for the. Home Guard to get them; but France hadn't got a Home Guard,

"Now what happened more than once was thin. A few German tanks would arrive in a lonely village just as it was getting dark. The villagers would gather round and stand about watching them.

"Suddenly, without.warn- ing, a light automatic would be turned on them, killing per- haps five and wounding maybe seven, and the rest would rush away and lock their doors.

Then, having deliberately terrorised the village-locked it up with fear, so to speak, for the night the Germans would post one sentry over the dead and dying and-go to sleep. Lovable people, the Jerries....

Cavalry To-day

It had stopped raining, and he took me out to look at the tanks.

The regiment was a crack cavalry regiment that has been charging through English his- tory for the Inst three cen- turies..

Just to mention the name of this regiment, or. to see it in print, is to have a mental pic turo of cavalry in lino, neck to neck, galloping all out, the horses with distended nostrils,

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and the troopers, some bare- headed, leaning forward with drawn sabres. That has been the function of the regiment in war since it was formed long ago.

Now you will find these cavalrymen, well hidden in the English countryside, tending a number of big, muddy mon- sters, from whose turrets pro- trude guns.

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"Done Proud"

We saw a number of heavy armoured chargers being groomed in a pine wood,

A young troop officer came up, the same kind of young man who in former days would have been walking-the horse- lines in riding-boots and spurs; now he wore battle- dress.

Like most of the regiment, he had been in France, fight- ing in a tank from the moment of landing until the evacuation. He described to me the tragedy of having to retreat, leaving all vehicles and equipment on the other side.

"But now we're re-equipped to the last button," he said, "and much better equipped than we were when we went out. The W.O. has done us

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new our tanks! They're beauties.'

(Good heavens, I thought, this is how men used to talk about-horses! He'll be asking me to run my hand down the mechanical equivalent of n hock.)

"Til tell you one thing," he went on. "Our new tanks are about 50 per cent. better than those we left in France. They contain all sorts of improve- ments suggested by our experi- ences out there. So, if Jerry comes over, we'll be waiting for him.

As we climbed over the tanks and squeezed our way into them, I felt for the first time that there is a queer new romance about mechanised war, and, oddly enough, it links up with the old romance of the armoured knight.

The young men who venture into peril in a modern tank have more in common with the

knight in plate armour who

thundered across the battle- fields of the Middle Ages than they have with the infantry of even the last war.

Modern Knights

What was an armoured knight but the answer of de- fence to attack; first the knight in chain mail protect- ing himself against the shaft of the long-bow, then the more heavily armoured knight pro- tecting himself against the musket ball. And what is the tank but, an answer to the minchine gun?

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It was tha, machine gun Urat abolished, the cavalry chargo, just as it created the tank: an armoured, monster designed at first only to cross trenches and balter, down. barbed wire entanglements in the face of machine gun fire;

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If the tank had stayed in the stage of development it had reach- ed, say, at Cambrai during the moment of its first great triumph, It might still have remained Just that: a great battering ram.

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But it did not stay there. It added speed to armour,

ner had it done so sooner lancers,

the dragoons, and the hussars were fated to make their last charge a gallop out of modern

warfare.

I think mechanised cavalry are perhaps the most interesting sec- Lion of

of the Royal Armoured Corps. because they are converted conser- vatives; diehards who have been tlic inevitable obliged to accept tendencies of a new age,

A mounted cavalry soldier, even

become in a desert, has now archale as

cab-driver, or as one

of those Victorias which might be seen before the War in Hyde Park: picturesque, romantic, good to look upon, bringing into this dull age little colour from another world, but, after all, definitely out of date.

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I wondered what the younger generation of cavalrymen really think about mechanisation. Do they mourn their fost chargers, or to charge on are they content wheels and tracks?

"Have you'any nien who were in the regiment before mechanisa- tion?" I asked.

They passed the word along for Sergeant Brown.

"Do you prefer machines to horses?" 1 naked hini.

Regrets? - No!

Rather to my astonishment, for it was not the reply I had expected, Sergeant Brown spoke as follows:

"Every time," he said. "I look In the old days it this like always stables, feeding, water- ing, burnishing bits and bridles and cleaning saddles. A trooper's life was one long fatigue.

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or feed them, or shine

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them up with a burnisher. one thing; and it's a big thing, be

It means that a cavalryman in modern war has got to be some- thing more than a groom.

cause

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there's another thing. Take cavalry in the last war. Was it messed about? Was it chucked. into the line dismounted, neither one thing nor the other? It was, simply because you couldn't use cavalry.

'Give Me Tanks'

"Also, let me say this: No one who's fond of horses will shed a lear because they don't go into action. A cavalry charge in the old days wasn't what pletures crack It

up

way. The sound of horses and the sight of them lying about blown to pieces wasn't anything to boast about; and one of the sights That I didn't take over there Inst Summer was French and Belgian cavalry with their horses hardly able to move and the saddles stick- Ing to their backs, No? Give me tanks."

to be. Not by screaming.

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I was told that probably majority of the younger men in the mechanised cavalry think Ike that Many of them became sick. of a cavalryman's life in the years before mechanisation, when the cavalry was starved while the War Office made up its mind what to do with it.

The result was that regiments fell below strength, and every man for responsible found himself three and four horses. To such men the arrival of tanks come as welcome relief from the bond- age of perpetual stables.

Same Spirit

But the cavalry is not dead, because the "cavalry spirit" lives on in the mechanised regiment The function of cavalry tanks in same as that. of mounted cavalry. They

require all the and dash which made them famous in the old days.

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you'd be surprised to know how Jiltle wo have really changed," said one of the officers. "This kind of war is really a cavalry

war,

a war of movement and surprise,"

So the spirit that has always

the animinted

British cavalry directs the tanks. The cavalry has been remounted on fron horsŐS,

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