7 APRIL 1917, Page 3

We believe that in suitable cases it always will be

a success, and for this plain reason. Cavalry riding in open order and moving rapidly are not a very good mark because the distance is being materially altered every two or three seconds, and because it is very difficult for men to work guns or use their rifles coolly and effectively when they know that in, say, forty or fifty seconds men with horses whose hoofs deal death and men armed also with very disagreeable long spears will be upon them, riding them down or sticking them like pigs. The thunder of the horses' hoofs also carries alarm to many minds, and begins to suggest to the soldier on the defensive : " Can we ever stand the shock of such a tempest as this ? "