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TANK "SHAMMING DEAD."

WAKING UP WHEN SURROUNDED BY GERMANS. The British tanks at Pieardy are still a subject of intense interest, for the French people (recently telegraphed the Paris correspondent of the London Daily Mail). They read wit'h utmost satisfaction in the 'l'aris newspapers that at the battle on the Ancre, when confronted by an intricate maze of eleven rows of barbed wire, the "Devil's Delight" ambled up to them with, a shambling gait, lowered its > head, and went through them as if they had been so much macaroni.

Another tank whose gear went wrong st a critical moment was ass-ailcd by the Huns with rifle's, bombs and mortars. Its crew closed the port-aoles and the tank sat back on its "hunkers," while the enemy host swarmed round it and plated bombs underneath its ugly frame. Not a sound oiimo from the interior of the disdainful monster. The enemy sappers, convinced that everybody insidi: was dead, brought up jacks and levers and attempted to overturn the. mastodon. A Prussian colonel, beside himself with rage at the ineffectual efforts of his men. discharged eight Immiless shots from his revolver at the tank.

When the enemy were thickly crowded round it, the brute unmasked its ma-chine-guns on every side and did terrible havoc When reinforcements of our men .arrived the ground all round the tank was strewed with German dead.

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Taranaki Daily News, 26 January 1917, Page 2

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TANK "SHAMMING DEAD." Taranaki Daily News, 26 January 1917, Page 2

TANK "SHAMMING DEAD." Taranaki Daily News, 26 January 1917, Page 2

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