BRITISH CAVALRY GET A CHANCE.
SLASHING THE SNIPERS. TRENCHES PREPARED FOR THE INFANTRY, (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, July 17. The Times' correspondent at headquarters, describing 1 Friday's battle, says: — The most dramatic incident was the cavalry action: Companies, of the Dragoon Guards and Deccan's .'Horse crossed the trenches and niade,- their way to the neighborhood of n> high, wood "covering the left of our advance on LongUeval. ,- They came under machine giin fire, but' -their, casualties were •immaterial. Tlie enemy were sniping from a corn field and the cavalry went through tiie field joyfully, one troop with the lance and the other with the sabre. When the horses came on the Germans many threw themselves down and 1 ! shrieked fo* mercey, or desperately clutched at the horses' legs as they passed. Lance *and sabre did their work cleanly and thoroughly, and with the exception of 34 prisoners no Germans were alive when the little job was finished. The cavalry then sent/ back their horses and dug trenches for the infantry to take over.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14047, 18 July 1916, Page 3
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