WAR SECRET.
TEUTONIC BLUNDER.
Tanks Invention Rejected By
Austria in 1911.
MIGHT HAVE WON THE WAR. (United r.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, Juno 11. The "Daily Telegraph" military correspondent savs that some generals of the Teutonic alliance are now belatedly lamenting the military conservatism that lost them the best chance of -winning the Great War, as they might have been equipped with tanks from the outset. It is just revealed tliat an Austrian military railway officer invented a tank and offered it to the Austrian War Oflice in 3011. The Austriau War Office rejected the invention in December, 1911. It is not generally known that an Australian, de Mole, in 1912 offered the British War Oflice a tank superior to those we first used in the war, but his design was pigeon-holed and only unearthed- afterwards. The Austrian, General Kirchnamc, revealing the 1911 invention, says the Central Powers, with their heads buried in the sands, failed to see the trump card that was available.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 136, 12 June 1933, Page 7
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