The German Parliament has treated the demand for additional forces
as we expected. The proposal to increase both field artillery and heavy artillery was passed, the immense results consequent on the use of that arm in the present war, results which finally dispose of the old assertion that artillery impresses but does not kill, having evidently moved the experts. The increase of the infantry was also approved, the evidence being that at present France had slightly the advantage; but the demand for twenty-seven thousand additional cavalry was rejected, obviously because of the costliness of that arm. Economy is, of course, as needful in Germany as elsewhere ; but it is curious that the experience of Japan should in this one particular be so com- pletely rejected. Had Japan possessed a body of thirty thousand or forty thousand efficient cavalrymen, the defeats of the Russian army would have been far more complete. Nothing cows infantry soldiers when once broken up like pursuit by men who travel twice as fast as they themselves do
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