SECRET WEAPON

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 24, 4 March 1942, Page 3

SECRET WEAPON

"SEMPLE'S PIE CART"

NEW MYSTERY WAR TANK

The following article is reprinted from the Chicago periodical, "The Blade." Terrifying War Horror We have a new mystery war tank down here. It has been christened "Semple's Pie Cart," as compliment to the Hon Bob Semple, who sponsored its construction. The tank carries three guns of a new type lor shrapnel which spreads in a horizontal, three-dimensional wide blanket of steel slugs with cataclysmic effect on an opposing force. This is as nothing to a secret apparatus in the tank which projects a needle-like rod of flame of the oxy-acetene type, with a range of 2000 yards and an exceedingly low trajectory. In a private trial, at a range of a mile, it slashed an old railway locomotive to ribbons in a few seconds. By inadvertence a vagrant cow received the fire jet at her rear end, and in a split second all that remained of her was an acrid odour of incinerated casein and glue. Yet another innovation in the tank is a stentorian-voiced loud speaker with a range of six miles, which, per medium of special records, hurls good, gory (borrowed) Australian invective at the enemy, for example: "Surrender, you ruddy cows, or we'll fling the whole bleeding foundry at you!"