Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 256, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1914 — WELL KNOWS TRUMPET CALL [ARTICLE]

WELL KNOWS TRUMPET CALL

Army Horse May Lose Its Rider but Always Will Keep Its Formation —and Seek Camp. It was recently announced that the Dutch across the border knew the Germans had been routed by the riderless horses they saw galloping about in troops. The return of riderless horses to camp is an almost certain sign qfa rout that amounts almost to annihilation. A horse may lose its trooper, but, unless it is wounded, it will nearly always keep on with the rest. , If the battle is lost, and the army is driven from the field in Confusion, the ownerless horses will return to camp or remain on' the field, oftfen galloping about in military formation, bet avoiding the wounded. An army horse knows the trumpet call as well as its rider, and when a squadron forms up to charge it will strain at the bit, anxious to be off: but it does not like waiting doing nothing, especially if exposed to fire. Many attempts have been made to extend the Geneva convention to animals; the proposal has received sympathy everywhere, but nothing definite has yet been done, though every soldier does his best for his steed so far as in him lies. In this war the purple, instead of red, Genevan cross has been adopted by British horse lovers who-intend to follow the battle lines to minister to wounded horses, and to assist riderless charges to escape hunger.