Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1892 — French Army Bicyclists. [ARTICLE]

French Army Bicyclists.

The French War Office has just issued regulations for the employment of bicyclists in the Army. The present organization provides for the enrolling of between 6,000 and 7,000 “wheelmen” in case of war. They are, curiously epough, provided with a double armament; for according to the regulations, they are to carry a cavalry carbine and thirty-six cartridges in their belts. Their chief use is to be that of messengers, and old-fash-ioned grumblers say that the first result of a general having a crowd of cyclists hanging about his headquarters will be that he will send far too many directions to his subordinates. Fair.