OUR NEW FIGHTING MACHINE.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2882, 21 September 1916, Page 5

OUR NEW FIGHTING MACHINE.

MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL'S IDEA WHAT MR. LLOYD GEORGE ■ ' . SAYS. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. London, September 19. Mr. Lloyd George, in an interview, said: "We must .not expect too much from tho 'tanks,' but so far they have •done well. Tho oredit is. due to Mr. Winston Churchill, who enthusiastically teok up the idea of making them lonf ago. He converted me, and tho Ministry of Munitions immediately went ahead. Lieutenant-Colonel Swinton (well blown in contemporary fiction as .'Ole Luk Oio') assisted valuably in the work.""JUGGERNAUTS" DESCRIBED . EIGHT TONS OP FIGHTING MACHINERY. . Washington, September 19. The framework of the British armoured cars is said to. have been built by tho Holt Manufacturing Company, of Illinois, who sent over a thousand to England. Tho cars were not armoured when they left America. The machinos resemble railway track-layers. They have enornwis tractive power, ia-v their own rails, and automatically pick thorn up after rising. The wheels do not touch the ground. They are constructed of steel, aJid are of 120 horsepower, and their weight is IS,OOOIb. (eight toils). Evidently they were, arm.od"and armoured in England. AMERICA TAKES A LEAF OUT OF OUR BOOK • Washington, September 19. The American War Department has ordered twenty-seven machines from the Holt Company similar to the British "Juggernauts." They are to be used primarily for pulling big guns, but will be convertible into moving fortressos.

THE EXPECTED GIBE FIIOM THE HUN. (Rcc. September 20, 10.45 p.m.) ■ Rotterdam, September 20. Tlio "Berlin Tageblatt" says;—'/England's boasted armoured autos wcro invented because- of our enemy's terror of the German machine-guns."-