THE RIGHT SPIRIT.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14712, 18 September 1918, Page 3

THE RIGHT SPIRIT.

AMERICAN -WORKERS BACK- UP

PRESIDEiNT.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) ' ' ..:..- NEW YORK, Sept. 17. . Mask, meetings of at Bridgeport, Connecticut,.- receiving President Wilsbn's notification 6f."work or fight,** unanimously agreed to work and to submit thejr. grievances to the Wai- Bciuxl. CAVA-LRY COMES INTO ITS OWN. HORSEMEN PLAY IMPORTANT ROLE. ■ WASHINGTON, July 21 Skilful \ise of the French cavalrr lias marked General Foch's tactics ever since 1j« took over control. of the Allied armies »& supreme commander, according to information reaching militaiy circles here. Ihe horsemen have played an important rolo inHhe whole battjS of 1918, as the struggle which began- on March 21 with the first German drive has come to be known., Tho employment of 'the swift-moving mounted cohimns m the present coun-ter-stroke from the Aisne-Marne line has been noted m the despatches. Again General Foch took advantage of the great mobility of the mounted arm to throw them m wherever 'his advanc'nc infantry units threatened to lose touch

with each other, m the heat and con-

fusion of tlie contest. No {japs have been left where the enemy might come up to fill- the Tiolo until the infantry could be rectified and connected m a solid front. The same tactics marked the. first use of French cavalry m the battle of Picardy, when the French took over ninoy-eight, kilometres of a front from the British to permit the latter to mass reserves at seriously tlireatened points of the lino farther north. A French, cavalry .corps, complete with light artillery, armored cars and cyclists, arrived first ,on the scene m Picardy and reJieved the Britisli. They fought it out afoot until the heavy French infantry arrived and took over the task. Three days later the horsemen wore on the move again, this time hurrying to the front where the enemy was hitting hard at the Lys line. The oavalry rode hai*d as the advance, guard of the French infantry columns marching toward St. Omar. The first twenty-four hours, despite the Jong strain* of fighting m Picardy, they covered 125 kilometres without losing a man or a. bnrse on the way. In sixty-six hours tliey had transferred their whole corpß over

200 kilometres and arrived east of Mont CMBBeI. "Jt was :ii wonderful sight," writes tlib chief of staff of a division. "The horses weiv m fine condition; tho men wore cheerful arftl went m sinoinj;- m spite of the sufferings and privations they had to 'endure. In truth our boys looked a. little tired, but they were all very proud that such an effort had been asked of them and nil I.•were1 .•were hearing it oheerfulJy."