MODERN WARFARE
REALISTIC -SCENE,
EVERYBODY ON MACHINES!
LONDON, June 14
A representation of modern warfare included .in the programme of the Aldershot Tattoo is ia scene that suggests.what war to-day may mean. No horses, no walking men arc- to he seen. They are all mounted on machines—not machine,s which crawl at the pace of the tanks of the last war, Rut quick-moving monster vehicles, which it is said can negotiate even tlie mud which, tlie soldiers know in Flanders. There arc headquarters on wheels with wireless apparatus attached; there are anti-tank guns, mortars, 18-pounder field guns, 60-pounder long range guns, howitzers, light tanks, and even a train of carriages drawn by a quick-moving “crocodile.” On .the carriages, which the roughest ground cannot obstruct, are the troops. It is a marvellous illustration. of the mechanised army of to-day and of the future. Great 9.6 in howitzer,s and their team are carried along with the greatest ease, and a 1 wave, the vehicles are made with the mud and the obstructions of a modern battlefield in mind. To give reality, the guns are fired, and even if there are no-shells the shriek,-, and whistles of the shells, : ave, imitated.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 July 1933, Page 8
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197MODERN WARFARE Hokitika Guardian, 22 July 1933, Page 8
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