THE TANKS GO AHEAD.
GAS FACTORY DESTROYED. > London, April 25. Router's Ttiris correspondent relate? (in incident on the line of the South Africans' advance, where the enemy had a chemical factory snugly enscounced ir. a hollow, surrounded by entrenchments and armored cellars, and possessing a natural rampart. The place was a perfect hornets' nest of machine-guns, which thinned the ranks of the attackers. The latter temporarily desisted, and a couple of tanks took up the assault They crashed through the barbed-wir; entanglements, crossed tho brook, and then the trench, plunged through a garden, and deliberately fell upon what had now become the smoking ruins of the factory. They turned and pranced and plunged. Their guns searched at pointbland range the machine-gun holes. The whole incursion did not last a quarter of an houiyand the nest was obliterated.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 May 1917, Page 3
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137THE TANKS GO AHEAD. Taranaki Daily News, 24 May 1917, Page 3
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