YAQUI CAVALRY.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 May 1929, Page 2

YAQUI CAVALRY.

WILD-RIDI NO WARRIORS. History has sung the German Uhlans the Cossacks, “the brave six hundred” now comes the Yaqui cavalryman with his bid for fame, writes a New York correspondent from Juarez, Chihuahua .Mexico. Half-wild men. mounted on half-wild horses, the gail;v heflanked 'iaqui Indians, utterly fearless, even fanatical in the face of death, have turned the tide in past revolts and upon them may depend the late ol the piesenl one. Riders without fear, the Indians, who care little which side they are on, so long as the light is in prospect, present a fearsome front to their enemy. A Yaqui charge ,once started seldom is stopped. The Indians, shrieking wild cries, standing in their stirrups and firing rifles as last as they can pull the trigger and reload, have been known to charge machine gun nests and wipe them out. The Yaquis follow a leader rather than a cause. Federal generals have turned rebel and-taken their Yaquis with them in a band. Often rebels have i-m.eil Federal and the allegiance of their Yaquis lias i-hnngoil "'itli them. A blanket, a horse,, a saddle, caitridges. belt and rifle, and thi Yaqui is equipped. He cats when and where he can. lie sleeps under his blanket.