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Tain detailed instructions as to the employment of cyclists with the
Cavalry, for the rapid development of this mode of locomotion has
rendered this absolutely indispensable. But the point must be brought
out that the use of a cyclist is always only conditional, as it depends
on the weather, the roads, and the country. On heavy, steep, and stony
roads, on which the tyres are only too apt to be punctured, the cyclists
are obliged to dismount; against a head wind they can only make progress
with difficulty. Nevertheless, there can be no doubt that for the
transmission of reports from the advanced lines, as well as for
communication between separated bodies of troops within the district
controlled by our Cavalry, they are of inestimable service. Granted that
in particularly unfavourable weather and bad roads they must be
supplemented by Cavalry, they, nevertheless, on the whole, make it
possible to expedite materially the delivery of despatches. This is of
all the greater importance beca