TANKS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 1 September 1919, Page 5

TANKS

'AN UNGANCELLED CONTRACT,

MACHINES WERE NOT FAVOP.ED AT FHIST;

BY C^BLE—PUESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGHT

, LONDON, Au g ; 29. liie p nq.\vsp,apers disclose that tne contract for building 170 tanks i s still uncancelled. The tanks cost £7000 each. ihe Oovernmenfc excuse may be that thv>y were wanted for Russia. o+Sir f £ crt S- tern ' in an article in the btrand Magazine, states that after the tanks _were firist used in Battle Lord Haag instructed him to make as many as possible. One thousand were ordered but the .War Office cancelled the order' and continued to oppose the construeto oi tanks; Mr Churchill, then Min^ ister^of:Munitions, said th^ War^ Office con?idered them a total failure and proposal,to stop further construction. :S?X .V11"1"0^11; on the advice of 'the. AVar Oftico -.export^ I. requested Sir- Albert Stern to resign, but ho refused and wa^ superseded. The new weapon got'a fair chance; again, when Loixl Milner beL earee Mjn-ster, and Sir "Henry Wilson was^ Chief of the Imperial 'General