World Battlefronts: A SONG FROM THE CAUCASUS

TIME Correspondent James Aldridge last week cabled this dispatch from the Soviet-Iranian Border.

Along these terrible roads Red Army units are moving toward one of the many battlefronts. They have all been in battle before. Now they are returning after resting up. There is cavalry among them, and it is the first cavalry I have seen in this war.

Cavalry is the Russian winter weapon. Some of these horsemen were operating with General Melnik the whole of .last winter some five hundred miles behind the German lines. One of the officers told me they...

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