WRECKED ARMOURED CAR.
LUCKY SHOT.
How a rifle bullet accidentally wrecked a large armoured Austin' car, equipped with two machine-guns, is related in the report of the Hungarian officer, Dr. Aladar Szelnar, to the general staff. The car, trusting to its strong steel armour, approached the positions of the Hungarian riflemen to within 300 yards and opened a murderous fire on them. In the course of tho heavy fusilade a bullet from one of the rifles entered through a small crack between plates, and cut the ignition cables at the) point where the four wires to the cyljn-' dors begin to branch out. When the Austrian artillery finally got the range of the armoured car, it attempted to escape, but the motor wouldn't explode. The entire crew of two officers and five men was captured—because of the lucky cutting of the ignition cable.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16205, 15 April 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)
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