GENERALS LAMENTING.
CHANCE OF WINNING GREAT WAR LOST. AUSTRIANS REJECT TANKS IN 1911. BRITAIN ALSO OVERLOOKS AUSTRALIAN’S DESIGN. LONDON, June 10. The "Daily Telegraph’s” military correspondent says that some generals of the Teutonic Alliance are now belatedly lamenting that military conservatism lost them their best chance of winning the Great War, as they might have been equipped with tanks from the outset. It has just been 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 Australian, de Mole, in 1912 offered the British War Office a tank superior to those Britain first used in the war. His design was pigeon-holed and only unearthed afterwards. The Austrian, General Kirchname, revealing the 1911 invention, says that the Central Powers, with their heads buried in tho sands, failed to see the trump card available.
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Wairarapa Age, 13 June 1933, Page 5
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