RUSSIA’S WAR HORSES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 June 1942, Page 4

RUSSIA’S WAR HORSES

VETERINARY SUPPLIES FROM BRITAIN. Russia’s famous Cossack cavalry are receiving a steady flow of veterinary supplies for.their horses from Britain’s Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. In response to a request from the Soviet Union for £40,000 worth of veterinary supplies, received through the British Government, the society is now raising £lOO,OOO to meet this and the further needs of Russia’s armies. Already a wide variety of supplies have gone to the Soviet Veterinary Corps. They include two lots of acriflavine for dressing burns; quantities of Canada balsam for healing wounds; arekiolin hydrobromide for the ’ removal of tape worms; trypan blue to combat the trypan parasite which causes fever; and bismuth trimromphenate, a substitute for iodoform in surgical dressings. Cedar oil, used for microscope work, is very scarce, but Britain has been able to send small quantities, of this too. In spite of mechanisation, Russia has more horses in the war than any other nation. Apart from the Cossack cavalry, used so effectively at so many points on their vast war front, supply trains, made up of wagons and sleighs and drawn by horses, are now playing an important part in Mie Russian advance.