signalized their departure by "sports" of very high-class nature, to which the community was invited, "The ' mounted events came off on Saturday last, when Major Blane with his officers and men gave tus one of the finest exhibitionsof horsemanship Tientsin has ever seen. The folk who have not witnessed a driving competition of the Royal Horse Artillery have missed one of the supreme joys of life, Take a parallelogram of say 100 yards 89 and in the middle of the longer sides place heavy balks of timber three inches further apart thay the wheels of the gun-carriage. Imagine the team of six horses with the gun behind going through these narrow straits at full gallop and tearing round the small enclosure in the sharpest of curves with the gun sometimes on one wheel and yet clearing the balks by a millimetre. It is the absolute perfection of cool courageous driving and to see it calls forth the wildest enthusiasm. At the recent great international gymkhana in Peking this particular exhibition commanded the unbounded admiration of all downward; they lad. previously sea noth the foreign soldiers from von Waldersee
ing like it. I may state that we have on more than one occasion seen that grandest of military spectacles, a full battery go past at the gallop. On the first occasion I saw it, the Field-Marshal was present; he didn't see the guns til the battery was close on the saluting base and could hardly believe the evidence of his senses, Mein Gott!" ho called out in astonishment, they have the guns. If you can imagine six express trains crashing through a great Railway Station at full speed in line abreast it would give some notion of the effect,
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