GRIM ARMY OF IRON
CAVALRY ON WHEELS TESTS IN ENGLAND By Cable. —Press Association. —Copyright LONDON, Thursday. With si view to the further mechanisation of the army, the War Office proposes to put a portion of the cavalry upon wheels, according to the “Daily Telegraph.’’ Two ideas, says the paper, will be tested on Salisbury Plain and at Aldershot in the coming spring. One is to strip the horses of all impedimenta except the man and his rifle, so that they will be in the best possible condition for fighting when they come into contact with the enemy, while the material will follow upon six-wheeled lorries. The other idea is more revolutionary. It is proposed that each cavalry regiment shall be composed of two squadrons of horse and one squadron of fast whippet tanks, accom-
panied by a fleet of fast lorries cafryfng machine-guns and their crews. This Will enable the cavalry to establish strategical points m force. The experiments will have an important bearing upon the matter of the supply of I h . orses A fo Ld nz 6 army and for India.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 245, 6 January 1928, Page 1
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