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ggi AMERICAN TRAC1 || Inventor of Juggernaut |j || || Which Germans Call |jj I ] |:il "Most Wonderful Weapon Which Modern Tactics iljl |! j I :j Have Revealed in Warllv fare," Tells of Their ? - Origin Britain has produced two sensations in this war. They are the tanks Or/7 i wV anc* hus^"'lus'1 ships. Hf j y )H||l Of the tanks little was known nntil ml If|they began breaking down barbed IcHit i!';1 wire entanglements, crushing in IllniN'' trenches and their occupants and 3 Pi I!',! proving that trench warfare was not Jap?iSh;j necessarily a stalemate. Of the hushli? If "431? bush ships there were many rumors || Pfl long before they appeared. They have ISJBlulM been seen t0 be leviathans among yj^W lg-lg warships, capable of developing treB-Sndl 0 mendous speed and working great [lj havoc. How great that havoc is will ^LmI Bs!) Probably remain a mystery until In days of peace there is a recapitulation HU its' Wp of tbe achievements of the war. But the tanks, which came upon an H unexpecting enemy, are becoming lu fll flMH more an^ better known as the war ffrTrfpTra progresses. In the Liberty Loan pa' ji rades America saw one of these monsters at close range. It was under Lieutenant General Sir Julian B.vng that the tanks came mfu i 1TTvjI into their own. Sir Julian was a II11 II119 great believer in their efficiency from I II i v 9 "me be flrst saw them lu opera\l \r/% t'on" *n b's P,aus 'or battle they enoi// Ml terec* wel1 'nto bis reckoning. He NX^jl pleaded for the mobilization of a large force of them and protested lhat' lf a sufficiently large force were 1^1 available, he would establish some ^:?'^jjai new precedents in warfare and would ft III n shatter some old beliefs. H Ijal HI One day last month, without any Bj BrnUyJ preliminary barrage, a battalion of (HI Ui'tiiul tan'13 emersed from the rear of Sir kw u 't Japan's lines. They had been quietly VI V QJa assen}bled in the night. They had Hjyjrfl come quietly, so quietly that even the VfM fS 9] aTgus-eyed espionage system of the "O 9 si Gorman military was taken un ( awares. The rest of the story is well known. flJM Idea Came from L'. S. A. 5HU ?ut wbat are the tanks? Why are n W they so wonderfully efficient? 3=yt Their story was told recently by fid fijT-'Sn Colonel E. D. Swinton, C.B., D.SO.. HIbtI li H E.. Assistant Secretary of the BritU'w N ish Vkar Cabinet. Colonel Swinton g J' ^ ?3 told a correspondent for the New tCBujflJs York Herald that the germ of the tank idea came from America, in the Holt tractor. He said: "We had InraS w been looking for a new war machine V8JB3 capable of going over rough ground and being able to fight. We had made no headway until July, 1914, a month before the war began. Then V lfOfe an ??cer reported to me that he had \ seen a tractor near Antwerp, which \ was able to climb over rough ground and which might supply the principle ?* the mac^'ue *or which we were iT-gf j searching. I "I went to see the machine and found a farmer at work with it in his \x*7k I ^elc^- Without letting him know my ? > \ill I '^ent'ty or t^ie PurP?se ?' my Ques j'v demonstrate its working to me. I li 11 pretended to be enthusiastic about it j~T and the farmer caught something of . A my enthusiasm and tried to show it off to the best possible advantage. He mfOSL) climbed over some of the roughest T l I ground he could find. Immediately [ I I saw the possibilities in the tractor. I J "When the war started, events Li moved with such rapid succession L that it was October before we were I 'Hm able to give our attention to the deffc aRSi velopment of the tank. I am not an In ffil- ',lventor- 1)111 1 obtained the services |P _JKji! of two officers who are inventors and 7"^^ we set about making a war machine along entirely new lines. The development of the machine was slow and Oil was almost two years before the first tank appeared on the field to -Trrir 'n the September number of the Strand .Magazine. Colonel Swinton .|j.. the difficulty in finding a name ; ! Ijil for the new Juggernaut. It was neeHi: essary that the name should reveal ,1 i.'j; nothing to the Germans. Finally the j;|j ]',!! |! ' word "Tank" was chosen because it jij i! i" was so nou-committal. Says Colonel i! j;l| llj'l Swinton in the Strand: "Aside from ill II i| being called T'anzerkraftwagen' and ;!| j'ij 1)| 'Schutzengrabenvernichtung - autoil! J,:| ji!j| l'|e Germans, the machines j: j !j;| were otherwise miscalled." "'t Ones and Little Ones Colonel Swinton told of the fear of the German Intelligence service TRENCH AND CA1 WFURNISHED IDEA FOR ffi ,:4. Rookie from t.he^ 13Ui_S||i Courtesy McClure Newspaper Syndicate, New Yor and the innocuous messages that the throbbing bustU were sent over the wires regarding a few minutes of the tanks, so that any who tapped the ... a faint hum telegraph would gain nothing for the itself heard afar o trouble. Some of the messages were sound approached, -m?*-1 ? Willi.. -* muHnnllp I today," or, "Send us tails for six fe- purring, which see males." The name "Willie" was sug- whole sky as a Zej gested, Colonel Swinton says, because overhead and circle of two types of tank that were being tionary machines in experimented with. When these two like a night owl qua types were side by side there was corn above a colony such a marked difference in their mice, sizes that they suggested parent and "Scorpions t child. Therefore the term Willie ?n0 hjnt was gi came to be applied to the smaller betray to the Hun type. The larger type was of two rectly underneath I classifications, a male and a female, tion of new and se Of these two types Colonel Swinton the 8iaying Gf his G< says in the Strand: "The male is par Df scorpions In plckl excellence the machine gun hunter ^en on terra flrma, ' and destroyer. He carries light, mjn(j might have i quick-firing guns, capable of firing worthier of high exp shell, and is . intended to be to the jDg women and chili machine gun what the torpedo boat few minutes the air destroyer was intended to be to the t0 onload its mar torpedo boat. The female, which, In bombs at a point so accordance with the law Of nature i8 ThrlfA WOB thin vlnll the man-killer, carrlee nothing but the night?whether machine guns for employment against peifr Gr by others enemy personnels Her special role gay. Finally after a is to keep down hostile rifle Are, to vai. Up went the 1 beat back counter attacks and rushes came back to life, ai of Infantry, and to act generally as formance proceeded, consort to her lord and master." The achievements After the tank had been perfected the war, up to Gent Its secrets were guarded with the victory, had been utmost care. They were painted with they were summari; large Russian characters on their palmer, now a Majoi sides. These, translated, meant, 8hing's staff, but th "With Care to Petrograd." It was war correspondent intended they should be thought to forces. Mr. Palmer be snow ploughs. It was necessary to ?In the ,atter gta transport them long distances rail of ^ Somme ,he and they were always loaded on the tanV_ trains at night. Even then they 77""" ?, were covered with tarpaulins. llTe??. ,?r|ier? ta? Colonel Swinton gives a vivid pic- 'Jf, ture of a scene as some of the tanks ?. up the were being loaded for their ultimate f,"na. ?, ov?r y -f destination. The siding where the J""1!8" ?' fur " ' tanks were to be loaded was bril- ^'an 8 liantly lighted, and says Colonel the*e'. Where tank Swinton: "From out the gloom . . . ? ' ?0D?f continually crawled a procession of . , lyln8 slug-shaped monsters, purring, panting and emitting flames as they slid P?lnts In swaths like over the ground." Finally comes the Onec wheh tanks were being load- following torrents c ed word was given of the approach 'cule. It is from tt of a Zeppelin. Colonel Swinton's blatt and follows: ' narrative says: "At once every light "These powerful in the loading yard was extinguished which were first use land every tank froze to Btillness are undoubtedly the | where it stood, darkness and uncanny weapons which mod : Bilence taking the place of glare and revealed In warfare RESISTIBLE BRITISH TANK Lad. By P. L. Crosby. ^ CQLOWgj,?! r^K.iSh^igSHjii:i^i-ijSiSrTV ? <*?->< *.<? m-i-> H ? 01 Tork. Alter LAWYERS VOLUNTEER TO ml *2 SAFEGUARD CIVIL RIGHTS 1 I on high. The OF AMERICAN SOLDIERS grew louder and IMfCS2 Some time ago the leading medical inoRn Amna* nn men ot the country decided that those . thf ate- amon* them who not *? to ?h.f.nVnH,nmo front wou,d render * patriotic serv$?? ITEH?r Ic?- They decided to care for each of nnrfivrPfi flt-iH other's practice and to serve free of of paralyzed field ?u 7? ?? f?r woa Maajhi? thn n Plckl?" families of solTiers. " ' ,^^1 fen however to Now 1116 ,awye haTe come to the skiDoer that' di front- Many of the leading member* 4i?l dm lE a collec- of the b8r haT? Proffered their serrwLSom St ,ces In bi)hadt of the cMl r'Khta of j ibruderei?a nest 8oldlere' and their action has led ?= e for his kamera Provost Marshal General Crowder to -1 vhich even tnhis ,88ue an "PP**1 to a? the members of '1 simed I ?rec? the le?al Profession to look npon the g l2S?thini?t c,v" r,ghta 01 the soldier as the ship sailed away General Crowder has pointed ont deroua cargo of to the lawyers the legal restrictions M me miles distant, under which his department operates |Sj ; repeated during and has stated that every efTort b' by the same Zep- should be made to protect the Inter- - . la It is not easy to e3ta of the men called to the colors. w resnectful inter- Several thousand lawyera have vol ights, the tanks unteered their services to General ' ' v"B id the circus per- Crowder's department, that of the / .? " Judge Advocate General of the Army. .'|j of the tanks in It has been possible to accept only .- If iral Byng's great 150 into the service of the govern- . "'"ft many. Recently ment These men will be charged is ted by Frederick with administering Justice within the :|| r on General Per- military. Meantime there is no*legal . If en the American sanction for accepting Into the gov- , li with the British ernment service those who would prowrote: tect the families of the soldier. The ' ges of the battle work of safeguarding the interests of . tervention of the the families must be unofficial so far 20,000 British as the War Department Is concerned. j ks have accom- Says General Crowder in his apand have been peal to the lawyers: enemy machine "We cannot follow up a soldlert Jm "* rlcrhtn at local law: we cannot haln ifantry strew No him assert or maintain them ther? I ilarly, here and In many cases this must be done by :s have not been the bar itself, as a part of its profess the bodies can sional obligations. To all such cases ; in front of the lawyers should, and doubtless will, nests and strong assume that lofty, sympathetic anff ' i cut corn." patriotic attitude which heretofors . j \ German tribute, they have frequently shown that they 5ft ' if abuse and rid- are able and willing to assume onV->- > le Berliner Tage- proper occasions." armored cars, They Will Keep It j id by the British, If you find Trench and Camp I i moBt wonderful teresting, amusing or informative, : lern tactics have mall it home and let the membera -7 i." of your family share your pleasure. y
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