REMOUNTS WANTED

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2327, 8 December 1914, Page 3

REMOUNTS WANTED

ARMY OFFICEBS IN AUSTRALIA. _By the P. and 0. Company's steamer Mongolia, which arrived., in Sydney from London a few days ago,' there arrived two officers of the British Army and two from the Indian Army, accompanied by an accountant. -The duty of these officers is to purchase some 75,000 remounts for the British Army for employment in the western theatre of war, and possibly also in Egypt should the necessity arise. It is well known that the carnage among the cavalry corps engaged in the present conflict has been enormous, and as tho result many of the mounted troops, have been fighting on foot. With the Germans the case is infinitely worse. If one looks back to the August files of the newspapers and scans the war news, scarcely a message will be read that , does not refer in somo way or other to the exploits of the Uhlans (lancers), who were used in the early., stages of the war as scouts and terrorising agents ahead of the main army. To-day there is seldom, if ever, a mention of Uhlans—they are non est. On Wednesday morning corroboration of this was found in a cable message, which said that tho Gorman cavalry was no more, owing to the supply of horses having been exhausted. This state of things is doubtless having an effect in. favour of tho Allies. If tho officers are successful in tlieir missiou, over a million and threequarters of money will be spent in remounts in Australia during tho coming year,. _ , It in unlikely that 'New Zealand will be' similarly visited, as this country is already doing all it possibly can in the way of supplying horses.