Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 152, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1913 — Soldiers on Skates. [ARTICLE]

Soldiers on Skates.

In the Norwegian Army there is • corps of Infantry which can cover n distance of eighty miles in a day's march. This extraordinary record, which equals the performances of toe beetrtralned cavalry in Europe, le only possible because every man In toe oorpe Is a highly trained skater and when} In marching trim Is provided with a specially constructed pair of skates. The oorps can be manoeuvred with extraordinary rapidity. The heels of the skates are so shaped as to enable the men to spin round as If on a phut at the word of command. As a wiftCto l - of fact, they can perform “right about face” far more quickly di«n any crack regiment of infantry. The evolutions of the naturally confined to the great nrods which Indent the coaßt of Norway and during the long winter season are trosen solidly over. For patrol and sooufc duty those soldier skaters will be Of the greatest service should Norway ever go to war. The men ot the oorps are the pick of a skating naXmi, gjjd their commander was omoe the champion skater of his country^—Harper's Weekly.