ARMIES OF CAVALRY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VI, Issue 1860, 9 December 1884, Page 2

ARMIES OF CAVALRY.

The London " Spectator" recently published an account of a pamphlet in which the jScrniiin general Yon dor Goltz maintain? 'jthat in jthe npxt invasion of France ' cavalry must be employed on a great scale, an<j that serious battles of cavalry and horse artillery only piny jje expected. This (observed the " Specfstop" jn its comments) is known to fce tliQ yiew favored by the sci, entire German §taff; arid t|)e ffjiinjeq" the great manoeuvres going ())} ppap Pgjognp, in which the BbinefoniJ and Westpfoalian Corps D'Arraee are engaged. They were remarkable for the great position azsigued to the cavalry, which, on the first day, had the whole of the" work to do, not a rifle being fired, and the whole of the infontry being employed in "mere strategical manoeuvring." It is known, f)]Ofgover, that one great reliance of the Russian staf against invasions by Germany is on the great Qijmbers of cavalry tljey hatitually keep ready fop concentration i|j Poland. The cannot rival then? in this arm, If this view is correct, the revival of cavalry campaigning will greatly increase the expense of nrmies and the calamity of war. Cavalry can never be cheap even in a conscript service; and a mass of cavalry moving in an enemy's territory must desolate it. It cannot keep up the needful speed and carry stoWs, and must, therefore, live by requisitions! when the number of hprsenien rise jiigh blight a district like a flight- of locusts.

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The latest intelligence to hand by the last American mail estimates the wheat crop of the United States for 1884 at 525,000,000 bushels. Rumour credits Mr Gladstone with the determination to give Ireland a Roman Catholic Lord Lieutenant in the person of the Marquis of Ripon, A parrot in Boston can repeat the Lord's prayer. That's -nothing, ,wo have known a parrot give points to a bullock-driver at" cursing."

The telegraphic connection America and the old world is happily characterised by the heading in the New York.Herald, "The International Hyphen." American physicians in the South Western States declare as the reby, of a long series 'of observations, that typhoid fever,follows in the fititfse of cyclones. . . '^r Elopements are the sensation of the hour in New York. In the last week before the mail left there has been: no less than six—all daughters of rich j men, and all with their fathers' coachmen.

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