THE HORSE IN WAR

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 107, 2 November 1914, Page 2

THE HORSE IN WAR

AN INTERESTING LECTURE. "The Horse in Peace and War" was the subject of a very interesting lecture given last week by Captain Henry, inspector for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, at tho society's annual meeting. Captain Henry, who was formerly an officer in the 7th Dragoon Guards, gave a great deal of information regarding the treatment of the horse in the Army, and showed that he knows the animal and its characteristics as an ethnologist knows the races of man. He told his audience how a horse, when it is received by tho Army, is trained, groomed, and fed, and described his many experiences in the handling of horses in England. Egypt, India, and South Africa, both in peace and war. Referring to the present war, the lecturer said that every day thousands of horses were being wasted and tortured, and the average life of a horse on the battlefield was only six or eight, weeks. Before the war the leading humane societies had endeavoured to have established some system of caring for horses in battle, and the subject was likely to have been brought before the next Hague Conference. But it was clear, from what the public knew of the war to-day, that the methods of the enemy would prevent any such scheme being put into operation. However well intentioned such a plan might be, it was practically impossible to carry it out.