BRITISH ARMY EQUIPMENT
PLEA FOR CONSIDERATION COMPARISON WITH GERMANY MECHANISM EXPERIMENTAL DWINDLED TANK STRENGTH By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Rec. 10 p.m. London, March 20. Adequate equipment for the British soldier to enable him to meet the Germans, whose battalions are .provided with trench mortars, anti-tank grins, machineguns and every soldier with an automatic rifle, is urged by the Daily Mail in a leader. “The German is mechanised throughout while Britain’s is only experimentally equipped in this respect,” the paper says. “Tanks also have dwindled. The position is similar to that when General Buller at the outbreak of the Boer War preferred foot soldiers to Australia’s proffered light horse. Afterwards he admitted he needed mounted forces. Fighters should be controlled by young, alert minds instead of relying on the practice of 1866 or 1870.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 March 1934, Page 7
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