"PREHISTORIC MONSTERS."
AN AMERICAN'S DESCRIPTION OF
ARMOURED CAR
(Received September 18, 0.45 a.m.) 'WASHINGTON, September 17. Air Frederick Palmer, who is at British Headquarters, in a cable description of the new 'British armoured cars, suites:— I which looked lilse a prehistoric monster, i "Fire rra*; spouting from the car, i Strange shapes trundled across the shell-craters and tree-stumps, cutting down inaaj small trees. There had boon rnuSi speculation as to how the new derice iron-Id vrork, and when the
'tanks' returned, the crows enthusiastically' compjw-ftd notes of -theijr achievement on the' Somme. "They described the device as. a 'harvester mowirig down everything in its "path.' A staff-officer spoke of 'the machine as ' stopping to browse at the edge of the wood before- advancing.'
" One hundred Prussians surrendered in a body to one machine crew."
Mr Palmer adds:—"lt is generally agreed that the new Juggernaut has made good."
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3557, 18 September 1916, Page 5
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147"PREHISTORIC MONSTERS." Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3557, 18 September 1916, Page 5
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