THE FIRST TANK
AUSTRIAN INVENTION. (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, June 11. The “Daily Telegraph’s ” military correspondent says: Same Generals of the Teutonic Alliance are now belatedly Lamenting that military conservatism lost them the best chance of winning the Great War. as they might have equipped with tanks from the outset. It has just been revealed that an Austrian military railway officer invented the tank, and offered it to the Austrian War Office in 1911. The Austrian War Office rejected the in vention in December, 1911. It is not generally known that an Australian. De Mole, in 1912, offered the British War Office tanks superior to those we first used in the war. His design was ] dgeon-holcd, ami only nn" earthed afterwards. The Austrian General Kirchname, revealing the 1911 invention. says: The Central Powers, with their heads buried in the sands, failed to see the trump card available.
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Grey River Argus, 13 June 1933, Page 6
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148THE FIRST TANK Grey River Argus, 13 June 1933, Page 6
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