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REMOUNTS FOR THE ARMY. 



CAN THEY BE RAISED ON COCO-NUT ESTATES ? 



WITH the advent of the automobile, and the 

 rapid reduction in the number of horses in use, 

 especially in crowded centres like the city 

 of London, the question of keeping Army 

 remounts up to the required standard, both 

 as regards quantity and quality, continues to 

 agitate the thinking public, and to cause 

 anxiety to those directly responsible to the 

 various War Offices and Governments for this 

 important work. 1 From all we can gather, 



1 .Take the United Kingdom, for instance, in the debate 

 on the War Office Vote in the House of Commons on 

 Thursday evening, July 4 (1912). Mr. Amery, Unionist 

 Member for S. Birmingham, asked whether " sufficient 

 horses were now available, in a sound condition, to take 

 the field at once ? Had the Secretary for War got the 

 86,000 horses required for the mobilization of the 

 Territorials, or the 18,000 horses necessary for the 

 troops which would be left at home ? " 



General Sir Reginald Pole-Carew, representing 

 Cornwall, who followed, said that, if the question of 

 the shortage of horses was an ever-growing difficulty, 

 why should not the War Office acknowledge openly 

 that there was not a single mounted unit fit to take the 

 field until they had filled it up with other horses ? 

 (Hear, hear.) 



Colonel Seely, who had recently succeeded Lord 



