A HUNDRED "TANKS"

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 235, 2 October 1916, Page 6

A HUNDRED "TANKS"

SENT TO RUSSIA. 30-TON MONSTERS. (Renter's Telegrams.) (Received 11-30 a.m.) NEW YORK, October 1. The British have sent a hundred armoured "tanks" to Russia. The machines are twenty-five feet long, ten feet wide, and twelve feet high. They weigh 30 tons apiece, including guns. GERMANS CLAIM CREDIT FOR ORIGINAL IDEA. (Reuters Telegrams.) AMSTERDAM, October 1. The '"Lokal Anzeiger" claims that the "tanks"' were invented by a German engineer years ago, and that the British armoured cars are only a feeble imitation. TOO MUCH ARTILLERY. INFANTRY DON'T COUNT. HOW GERMANS EXPLAIN DEFEAT. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received 11.45 a-m.) AMS-TvRDAJM, October 1. The latest German explanation of the Somme reverses is that the Anglo-French infantry are worthless, but that, thanks to overwhelming artillery fire, they are sometimes enabled to rush fortified positions which have been reduced to ruins by the guns. t Herr Georg Queri, the "Berliner Tageblatt's" military critic, says: "Infantry fighting is no longer man against man, but man against cripples, wounded, and dead. A trench is rushed only -when it has been blown to dust. This is tho enemy's confession that his infantry is of poor quality." Herr Queri overlooks the fifty thousand unwounded prisoners taken on the Somme, and forgets the eulogies officially bestowed by the German General Staff for sparing the infantry at Verdun by means of artillery preparation. RAIDS ON BUCHAREST. HOT SCOUTS KILLED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) BUCHAREST, October 1.

A communique states: "Zeppelin and aeroplane attacks on Bucharest continue to be made daily. A number of boy scouts were killed and a Hungarian church partly destroyed during the last raid. A LITTLE RETALIATION. SOFIA BOMBED. (Australian and N.Z. Cahle Association.) PARIS, October 1. A communique states: '"Our aeroplanes bombed Monastir and Prilep. A French aeroplane dropped bombs in Sofia on Frid_ty morning. The aviator continued his journey, and descended in Bucharest." MR GERARD'S RETURN I CAUSES MUCH SPECULATION. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) COPENHAGEN, October 1. There is much speculation as to the reason of the visit to America of Mr J. W. Gerard (United States Ambassador to Berlin). The newspaper "Politiken" believes it is due to Germany's decision to renew unsparing use of submarines, and that Mr Gerard desires a personal discussion of the matter "with Mr Wilson and Mr Lansing (Secretary of State). A GENERAL CONFERENCE. GERMAN PREDICTION. (United Service.) AMSTERDAM, October L The "Vossische Zeitung" says that the American Ambassadors in belligerent countries will confer in Washington in October. BULGARIANS SHELLED. NAVY TAKES A HAND. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, October 1. A British communique from Salonika states: "The Navy shelled and dispersed an enemy column east of Neochori, near the mouth of the Struma. Naval aeroplanes bombed Angista railway sta- j tion." HUNGRY. FOOD SUPPLY PRECARIOUS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) AMSTERDAM, October 1. The Premier of Hungary (Count Tisza), in the Hungarian Parliament, stated that the food question undeniably was precarious. The Government was convinced that there were sufficient supplies to prevent starvation. INCIDENTS WAR. ON AND OFF THE FIRING LINE. LONDON, October 1. Ambattador to Turkey. Herr yon Kuhlmann, the German Minister at The Hague, has been appointed Ambassador at Constantinople. Monit-T Zeppelins. Tbe Btory of monster Zeppelins, able to carry five tons of bombs, reappears _____ Petrograd. It is stated that four are expected to be ready in October. Trench. Mortar* Taken. During the advance on Couree__-_e the Canadians captured two trench, mortarsof new: «_nd -Bgecrnl- jyp%