INVENTION OF THE TANK
f ,? AUSTRIAN AUTHORITIES’ LOSS PLANS REJECTED BEFORE WAR
LONDON, June 11. The Daily Telegraph’s military correspondent says: — “ Some of the 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 been equipped with tanks from the outset. It is just revealed that an Austrian military railway officer invented a tank and offered it to the Austrian War Office in 1911. The Austrian War Office rejected the invention in December of 1911.
“It is not generally known that an Australian (De Mole), in 1912, offered the British War Office a tank superior to those first used in the war. His design was pigeon-holed and only unearthed afterwards.
“ The Austrian General Kirchname, in revealing the 1911 invention, says that the Central Powers, with their heads buried in the sand, failed to see the trump card available.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21978, 13 June 1933, Page 9
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