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Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 16619, 26 August 1918, Page 4

From . tko Cojeul River, south of Arras, to below the Sonuse the British offensive has everywhere made progress, recovering Albert, Braye, and mai%r lesser villages. The .first Sommo battle is being fought again, but that was a battle of fixed positions. The whole front is fluid now, and already the New Zealanders arc on the outskirts of Bapauine. Not far from Lilions, Tilicre the British successes end, General Humbert takes up the glorious tale, while further east not the Aisne line only, but the Cliemm des Dames behind it;, promises to he made untenable for the Germans by General Manghr's progress. The. British armies alone have taken 14,000 prisoners in three days, while in four days two French armies have recaptured more-• Ifaau fifty towns and villages.- I

The "Scientific American" gives a description of the "whippets," the new small, fast tanks, made to follow tip the enemy in the open, which have proved their value in the recent fight, ing. They hear the same relation to the old tanks as destroyers hear to battleships. Tlie "whippet" has caterpillar treads of the usual design, arranged on either side of a sort of flat-car hody. On the platform of the flat-car is mounted a single turret which houses the crew and the several machine-guns with which it is armed. iTlio flat-car hody measures 18ft in length, while the turret is 6ft in height. The engine is placed at the rear of the "gun turret, in a concrete armoured housing. The "whippet" is said easily to cover twelve miles an hour, and it is a British invention.