GERMAN TRENCHES.--From the Painting by R. Caton Woodville. (left half)]

Cavalry engaged in the Belgian frontier battles are fighting in
all sorts of ways: repeatedly, for example, as infantrymen in the
trenches. On occasion, also, they have even charged on foot, with
bayonet or with their lances. The Life Guards, according to a letter
from the front, charged the German trenches the other day with
bayonets. A squadron of French dragoons dismounted and crept through a
wood on foot, surprising a German infantry company and overpowering
them in close-quarter fight with lances and clubbed carbines. With




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[Illustration: CHARGING ON FOOT WITH THE LANCE: BENGAL LANCERS ATTACK
GERMAN TRENCHES.--From the Painting by R. Caton Woodville. (right half)]

lances, also, as our illustration shows, some of our Bengal cavalry, in
action on foot, on October 24, at Ramscapelle, near the Yser, recaptured
the village from the Germans. Dismounting near by, they charged the enemy
lance in hand, driving him from his trenches. Following up their success,
they then forced their way into the village, smashing in doors and windows
and storming house after house in spite of fierce resistance until,
assisted by other troops, they forced the enemy out, capturing guns and
many prisoners. The action was particularly notable.