RUSSIA'S HORSES

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 117, 20 May 1942, Page 6

RUSSIA'S HORSES

VETTED BY BRITAIN

EXTENSIVE WAR DEMAND

LONDON Russia's famous Cossack cavalryare receiving a steady flow of veterinary supplies for their horses from Britain s Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. In response to a request from the Soviet Union for £40,000 worth of veterinary supplies, received through the British Government, the Societv ra f in g £100,000 to meet this and the further needs of Russia's armies. Already a wide variety of supplies have gone to the Soviet Veterinary Corps. They include two lots of acriflavine for dressing burns; quantities Canada balsam for healing woundsarekiolin hydrobromide for the refiape t vvorms ; trypan blue to combat the trypan parasite which causes fever; and bismuth tribromphenate, a substitute for iodoform in surgical dressings. Cedar oil, used for microscope work, is very scarce but Britain has been able to send small quantities of this too. 11 In spite of mechanisation, Russia has more horses in the war than any other nation. Apart from the Cosslck cavalry, used so effectively at so many points in their vast war front su PP ] y. trams, made up of wagons and sleighs drawn by horses, are now playing an important part in the sian advance. rtUS