RUSSIA'S WAR HORSES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 55, 20 May 1942, Page 5

RUSSIA'S WAR HORSES

ARE BEING KEPT FIT ON VETERINARY SUPPLIES FROM BRITAIN Russia's famous Cossack cavalry are receiving a steady flow of veterinary supplies for their horses from Britain's Royal Society for the Pre-! vention of Cruelty to Animals. j In response to a request from the Soviet Union for £40,000 worth of veterinary supplies, received through the British Government, the Society 5s now raising £100,000 to meet this and the further needs of Russia's ctdmies. Already a wide variety of supplies have gone to the Soviet Veterinary Corps. They, include two lots of acriflavine for dressings burns; quantities of Canada balsam for healing wounds; arekiolin hydrobromide for the removal of tape worms; trypan blue to.'combat the trypan parasite which causes fever; and. bismuth tribromj>henate, a substitute for iodoform in surgical dressings. Cedar oil, used for miscoscope work, is very scarce, but Britain liasi been able to send small quantities of this tOOw In spite of mechanisation, Russia lias more horses, in the war than any other nation. Apart from the Cossack cavalry, used so effectively at so many points on their vasit war front, supply trains, made up of wagons and sleighs; and drawn by horses, are now playing an important part in the Russian advance.