With regard to cavalry, be said that the Hussians were for their horsemanship. In his opinion several thousand Cossaks—he could rot estimate the numbers of mount-soldiers in Siberia—would clear the country, prior to the infantry and artillery' getting to vantage] points, and unless Chinese artillery opposed Russian artillery the! niounted' units would more than Jeare for advance work. He believed that the range of the invaders' guns was several hundred yards greater than the Chinese, and that they fired with greater accuracy.
But the biggest feature of the Rassian army as compared with Chinese," our informant went say, "is in the use of poison gas. The Soviet troops are equipped with mest moder gas outfits, and. the Chinese have no protection whatever against this type of warfare. Poison gas combined with armoured cars and machine guns should prove one of the deciswe, if net the decisive, factor in a summer campaign, Should war actually break out."
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