TANKS IN THE WAR
GERMANY’S LOST CHANCE. INVENTION OF 1911 REJECTED. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) London, June 11. The military correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that some 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, 1911. It is not generally known that an Austrian, 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 was only unearthed afterwards. An Austrian, General Kirchname, in revealing the 1911 invention, says the Central Powers, with their heads buried in the sands, failed to see that a trump card was available.
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Southland Times, Issue 22040, 13 June 1933, Page 5
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