CAVALRY DISMOUNT.
HORSES GO NAZI.
BRITAIN'S NEW ARMY.
IS IT TOO MECHANISED ?
(Special.—By Air Mall.) LONDON", May 27. | More than half the horses displaced from the British Army by mechanisation have been bought for the German Army, according to a British veterinary expert who recently visited Germany.
| Germany, lie said this week, is building up a formidable force of cavalry. Britain, in contrast, has mechanised 90 per cent of her regular cavalry regiments, and only two regiments and one artillery battery retain their horses. "Germany's shortage of petrol and the many mechanical breakdowns which 1 heard her new army had experienced on manoeuvres may be tlie chief reasons for strengthening her cavalry," added the expert. Opinion has been growing in certain quarters in Britain that the mechanisaI tion of the British Army has been too j complete. It was found, for example, that it was necessary to send a horse 1 regiment—the Royal Scots Greys—to Palestine last September when trouble flared up.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 139, 15 June 1939, Page 9
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