Men to be Trained for Horses as Well as for Motor Vehicles London, Mar. 20.
Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, the Secretary for War, in the report stage of the in the House of dealing with the Tank Corps, said it was the present intention that. the Third Battalion of Tanks should have 52 tanks. The conception which the War Office had of the development of the tank and mechanized forces was not that they should replace the shoe tactics of cavalry, The men in cavalry machine-gun squadrons were being: trained as cavalry men and would be sorted out afterwards. Should they be ini a country where vehicles could not carry guns but where animals must do that work, the men so trained would be capable of functioning in those circum. stances, With regard to the organization of two cavalry regiments with armoured cars, namely, the 11th Hussars and ith Lancers, the Minister of War pointed out that they would each be mounted in three squadrons of 34 armoured ears. The present estimates provided that during this year the 11th Hussars, which was the regiment! at home, should have 34 armoured curs and the regiment in Egypt, the 12th Lancers, should have 11 armoured cars only, so that one squadron would be mounted and the other two squadrons would be mounted each succeeding—year.
He could got do it completely in Eyypt this year—Reuter,
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