GOOD WORK BY FRENCH TANKS.
(Reuters Telegramß.)
(Received Oct. 25, 8.20 p.m.)
London, Oct. 24
The "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent at French Headquarters states that the French tanks did good work in the last battle. Their mechanism I is like that of the British tanks, but the machines are smaller, possessing greater manoeuvring powers than our early models. They carry a field gun and several machine guns. The tanks captured ruined farmsteads which were holding up the attack. The French", artillery smashed caves and tunnels on two plateaux in the sector. Four hundred Germans who were trapped in a quarry refused to emerge, believing that the French would massacre prisoners, until assurances were given to the contrary. '
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Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14546, 26 October 1917, Page 5
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116GOOD WORK BY FRENCH TANKS. Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14546, 26 October 1917, Page 5
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