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BRITAIN'S GREAT ASSET IN MECH AN I UAL 'WARFARE. LORD BIRKENHEAD- ATTAINS ARMY LEADERS. (Received May S. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, May 7. Alluding to the mechanization M the Army, Lord Birkenhead, addressing the' Southampton Chamber _ of Commerce, said it was the despised politicians who forced on to the generals the power and resources of mechanical warfare. The only request made to the Army -was that they should not employ the weapon prematurely. Thov derided it in evert way, and disparaged it. but as soon as the tanks were delivered they prematurely and uselessly exposed the supreme weapon, which, i! safeguarded - and husbanded, might have won the final battle of the war. Sir W. Robertson, in liis book, made a solitary and indifferent reference to the tanks, which revolutionised warfare, yet he at a most critical moment was Chief of the General Staff.—A. and N.Z.C.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10392, 9 May 1927, Page 5
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