The London _Daily Express’s_ Paris correspondent says that the British
captured seventeen howitzers and a number of smaller guns. The German
cavalry losses were appalling. A captured German cavalry officer
estimates the wastage of horses, especially in the Belgian campaign, at
about two-thirds of the total allotted to the army operating in the
direction of Paris.
The army was hampered by a shortage of cavalry scouts, and since it
entered France many battery horses have been transferred to the cavalry.
As a result guns have been abandoned and have fallen into the hands of
the British in large numbers. The horseless cavalrymen are now marching
with the infantry.
The officer is despondent over the future, but thinks that the German
right intends to stand in the positions prepared during the advance and
await reënforcements.