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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2955, 15 December 1916, Page 26

Following upon reports of tho wonderful • achievements of the British "tanks" in tho great Somnie offensive, plans aro announced by, the United States army for the formation of a horseless regiment of heavy artillery. The guns will bo hauled from point to point, and then put into the firing line by means of -"caterpillar tractors," described as similar in construction to the giant motor-cars used by the British. The now regiment is to have many distinctive features. Its colonel ami other regimental officers will ride in a military automobile instead of on horseback. Its heavy field guns and their ammunition caissons will be hauled by powerful tractors, which, unlike tho "land Dreadnoughts" on the British front, will not bo armed, and will be armoured only for protection of their machinery. The battery and store-wac;ons of tho regiment will also be hauled by tractors, so as to he able to follow tho tractor-drawn field howitzers into action over rough country. Tho artilluryjnen, who heretofore, have ridden horses, will hereafter rido on motorcycles with "bathtub" attachments, ■ uh cycle carrying three men