POSSIBLE REAPPEARANCE OF DEFENSIVE ARMOUR.
The prominent part- being- played by the armoured train in the. war in .South Africa has set the service critics at work surmising its place in warfare of the future. "The Engineer," whose military critic is wellknown, says: "We look to see some form of armoured train much more generally used in the future than now. It may find full field in motor cars, 0/ it may take the form of armoured screens, mounted on wheels, which men can push before them. Very little will shelter a prone man. But a Spade Of. a stone will not protect an advancing one. We feel that circumstances will eventually compel us to do on land what has long- since been forced on us to do at sea in the way Of armour, and the present war may be the starting- point, in spite of the. ridicule which .fell on the bullet-proof. cuirass two or three years ago."
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 65, 17 March 1900, Page 2 (Supplement)
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