FIGHTING IN A "TANK"

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3156, 7 August 1917, Page 5

FIGHTING IN A "TANK"

AN INCIDENT IN THE FLANDERS BATTLE. mif s n r - Pll j, li P Gibl ?? writes?-"Two "tanks" were constantly inaction,' m/fol seventeen, and the other for twenty-four, hours. The crews were cramwd between the engines and the guns, with no head space and with the engines going full blase. . The heat within was terrific, and the occupants were flung about while traversing the rough ground, like fishermen in a wild gale. They rtared through tho periscope till their eyes ached* watching their .own infantry signals and the enemy barrage Seventeen hours of this work, with more than a ohaSco of death all the time, is.a severe test for the strongest. The rain has turned the ground mto a quagmire, and the "tanks" were frequently bogged near St Mien The crews emerged and worked for a couple of hours under shell and machin^un fire to extricate them."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assu. "inwiuie gun - "ABOMINABLE ADVENTURES" IN THE DARK (Rec. August 6, 10.55 p.m.) «? -^ r ' Gibbs writes:—"Tho Canadians have successfully pus"Md°forward their outposts at Lens, getting through tho German defences at Gte-ta-MoX }?ords are not good enough to decribe the infantry's grit. The men attock' ing east of ZiHebeko had abominable adventures. It "was almost pitch dark and the battalions became hopelessly mixed. The barrage, went ahead and titer the barrage's support, and shot at by Cto? mans on_ the flanks. Fellows who stopped to pull out their comrades were dragged in themselves It took forty-five minutes to clear two Kof unde® b ° ete *' rtife