THE TERRIBLE TANK

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 3247, 3 July 1917, Page 5

THE TERRIBLE TANK

♦ HOW TUMMY REGABDS THEM. A private in the Middlesex Begiment witii an uuu.-uaily vivid imagj.nation and no regard for the truth, writes home to his mother the l'oling wonderful account of the tanks: "They can do up the prisoners in bundles like straw binders, and, in addition, have an adaptation of a Goss printing machine which enables them to cat.cti the Huns, fold, count-, and deliver them in quires, every thirteenth man being thrown out a little fuither than the others. The tanks can truss refractory prisoners like fowls prepared for cooking, while their equipment renders it possible for them to charge into a crowd of Huns, and by shooting out a thousand spikes, like porcupine quills, to carry off an opponent on each. Though "stuck up.' the prisoners are needless to s;|v, proud of their position. "The cars in question can chew up barbed wire and turn it into munitions. As they run they slash their tails' and clear away trees, houses, howitzers, and anything else in the vieinily. They turn over on their backs and eaten live shells in their eaterpiller feet, and can be easilyadapted as submarines; indeed most of tliem cross the channel in this guise.

"They loop the loop, travel forward-, sideways, and backwards not only with equal speed, but at the same time. They spin round like a top. but far more quickly. They dig themselves in a iio'e. and come out again ten miles finner on in ha'f-an-hour. "The tanks can do anything and everything: in fact, if there is anything which can't be done the tanks can do it."