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Now they their iron horses

By H. V. MORTON

LIEUTENANT with the

A LIEUTENANT with the

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 mé about modern war in a cold, dis- passionate way. It was posi- tively 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 à 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, too. Tough guys--you know the idea?

"Well, the consequence is that, when night comes, they are hungry as wolves. They find a 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 this. 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 Jock thoir 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

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

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and the troopers, some bare- headed, leaning forward with drawn sabres. That has been・In' a desert, has now become

the function of the regiment in war since it was formed long ago.

Now you will find these cavalrymen, well hidden in the

I think mechanised cavalry are perhaps the most interesting sec- tion of the Royal Armoured Corps, because they are converted conser- vatives; dichards who have been inevitable obliged to accept the tendencies of a new

A mounted cavalry soldier, even

archale as a tab-driver or as one of those Victorias which might be seen before the War in Hyde Park: picturesque, romantic, good to look upan, bringing Into

this dull age little colour from another world,

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English countryside, tending abut; after all, definitely out of date. number of big, muddy mon- sters, from whose turrets: pro- trude guns.

"Done Proud"

I wondered what the younger Keneration of

cavalrymen really think about mechanisation. Do they mourn their lost chargers, or are they content to charge on -wheels and tracks?

ta: "Have you any men who were in

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asked.

We saw a number of heavy armoured

chargers being tion?" en before mechanisa- 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.

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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.

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"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 proud. Look at our new tanka! 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 a hock.) W

"I'll 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- mente suggested by our experi- ences out there. So, If Jerry comes over, we'll be waiting for him..

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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,

They passed the word along for Sergeant Brown.

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"Do

you prefer machines horsea?" I asked him.

Regrets? —No!

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

” he said. “1 look. "Every time"

ot it like this. In the old days it. was always stables, feeding, water- ing, burnishing bits and bridles

A and cleaning, saddles. trooper's

life was one long fatigue.

"But now we're mechanised, we don't have to take the tanks out to water, or feed them, or shine them up with a burnisher, That's one thing; and it's a big thing, be- means that a cavalryman In modern war;has got to be some-

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

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"Also, let me say this: No one who's fond of horses will shed a tear because they don't go into action. A cavalry charge in the old days wasn't what pictures crecit up to be. Not a curning,

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and the sight of thent 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 funks"

was told that probably tlio majority of the younger men in the mechanised cavalry think Ike that. Many of them became sick cavalryman's life in the years

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before mechanisation, when the cavalry was 'starved while the War

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The young men who venturo into poril in a modern tank office made up its mind what to do have more in common with the thundered across the battle knight in plate armour who 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 tho knight in chain-mail protect- ing himself against the shaft f of the long-bow, then the more heavily armoured knight pro- tecting himself against the

The result was

vas that regiments fell below strongth, and every man found himself responsible for three and four horses; To such men the arrival of tanks came as A welcome rollef from the bond- ege of perpetual stables.'r

Same Spirit

But the cavalry is not dead, because the cavalry spirit liven on in the mechanised regiment The function of cavalry tanks, is- the ..same as that of mounted They require all the speed and deal which made famous in the old days, ERAMAN 193

"You'd be surprised to how little we have.

ally chan said one Cof, the kind of war is really a cavalry war, Anwar of movement and surprise, that So the spirit that has always Just animated in the British cavalry, directs the tanks, the cavalry, Has been remolinted on iron horses.

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