A HORSELESS ARMY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1813, 28 July 1913, Page 9

A HORSELESS ARMY.

EFFECT OF MOTOR TRAFFIC IN BRI- " TAIN. Br Telozraph—Press Association—Copyright . (Sydney "Sun" Special.) London, July 25. Colonel Jarvis, Chairman of the Remount Committee, states that tho horses available for military purposes in tho County of London have deoreased by 50 per cent, in the last three years.' At the present rate of decrease it would shortly be impossible to provide for the mounted services other than the yeomanry.

A recent review in London had to he abandoned because of tho shortage ot horses. "The Times" military correspondent remarked at tho time: "Everybody knows, or ought to know, that tho Territorials possess very few horses of their own, and have to hire in peace and to resort to impressment in ,W. It should havo been practicable without undue expense to horse the London Yeomanry and field artillorv from tho still largo equine resources of London; and if it was not practicable, then tho plan should not have been announced. ... At the same time, this ill-managed affair will serve to .show the citizens of London that the Territorials are subject to many limitations in their usefulness, and that until tho horses needed for them nro impressed on mobilisation they cannot take the field. Wo need very badly to practise completely tho mobilisation of a Regular division, "but vtq require cren more to mobilise a Territorial division and to make it march and manoeuvre under conditions as nearly resembling those on eervico as wo can secure.