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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 151, 23 December 1940, Page 8

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AUSTRALIAN WAR

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;^ (Received December 23, 2.10 p.m.)

BRISBANE, This Day.

A war expenditure of £300,000,----000 a year is not unlikely, said the Federal Treasurer, Mr. A. W. Fadden. "Next year," said the 1 Minister, "will be a critical period in the war, and it is certain that we must before long face a far heavier drain on our reserves than ■" at present."

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,7« lesson of the tank from the British in the last war, the correspondent says, -ra.-the British armoured units in Egypt have demonstrated how well the lesson _-, of experience has been learned in this war.

He describes the armoured units as

■ "corps d'elite," and says they consist -a -of many famous regiments. Both the ,c. ..training of the personnel and the tanks themselves, he says, incorporate lessons learned in France, and as great r."- advantage has been taken of that ex-

perience as was taken by the Germans ;"*.'from the lessons learned in their battle «>K-"against Poland. ->.. ■ Speeds of 50 miles an hour are common. The power of the engines is

v.. immense, and the armaments, as well as the armour, are the best available. :??<■ The correspondent sums up in the -■■'' words of a tank officer, who said: "We ! !'<« shall not underestimate the enemy, but •"-•any talk about the German Panzer o divisions being invincible is just so much nonsense. One day we hope to ..prove it beyond all doubt."