TANKS—LATEST SAMPLE.

Taihape Daily Times, 21 November 1917, Page 6

TANKS—LATEST SAMPLE.

Whatever else Frivate C. E. Dukes, Bedfordshire Regiment, may be he is a humorist. In this way he describes our tanks to his fiancee: “They can do up prisoners in bundles like straw-binders, and, in addition, have an adaptation of a printing machine, which count, and deliver them in quires, every thirteenth man being thrown out a little farther than the others. The tanks can truss refractory prisoners like fowls' prepared for while their equipmen renders it possible for them to charge into a crowd of Huns and by shootinout spokes like porcupine quills carry off an opponent on each. Though ‘stuck up,’ the prisoners are needless to say, by no proud of their position. /

“They can chew up barbed wire and turn it into munitions. As they run they slash their tails and clear away trees, houses, howitzers, and anything else in the vicinity. They turn over on their backs and catch live shells in their caterpillar feet, and they can easily be adapted as submarines; in fact, most of them crossed the Channel in this guise. They loop the loop ? travel forwards, sideways, and backwards, not only with equal speed, but at the same time. They spin round like a top, only far more quickly, dig themselves in, bury themselves, scoop out a funnel and come out again ten miles away in half an hour.”