WONDER TANKS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 229, 24 November 1916, Page 5 (Supplement)

WONDER TANKS.

MR. LLOYD GEORGE AND OIK NEW ARMOURED CARS. "What about the new 'tanks'?" was the question put to Mr. Lloyd George as he was leaving the War Office. "Well." said the War Secretary, "we mu-t not expect too much from tlu 111; but, *> i:ir, they have done very well. "And don't you think," he contin- j u:"that they lvlleet some credit in j responsible i'or tie in? It is really i to Mr. Winston Churchill that the credit is due more than t»; anyone e'-e. He to::k up with enthusiasm til'iil.> i id making them a long time ago, a:'d he met with many difficulties. He converted me. ami at the .Mini-try of j Muntt'oiis we went ahead and mad 1 t'-Ml. ; "The Admiralty exports were ?n- ; valuable and gave the greatest possi- j ble a^istanc; 1 . They are, of course, experts in the uiat.ter of armoured plating. Major Stern —a business nia.n —at the Ministry of Munitions, had charge of the work of getting them built"? and lie did the task very well. Colonel Swintoti and others also did valuable work. -You see." added Mr. Lloyd George, "the enemy ha< bv no means a monopoly of inventive 'ingenuity."