THE EARLY TANKS.
OFFICIAL OPPOSITION. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Aug. 30, 5.5 p.m. London, Aug. 29. Sir Albert Stern, in an * article in the Strand Magazine, states that after the tanks were first used in battle, Lord Haig instructed him to make as many as possible. One thousand were ordered, but the War Office cancelled the order, and continued in oppose the construction of tanks. Mr. Churchill, then Minister of .Munitions, said the War Office considered them a total failure, and proposed to stop further construction. Mr. Churchill, on the advice of the War Office experts, requested Sir Albert Stern to resign, but ho refused, and was superseded. The new weapon got a fair chance again when Lord Milner became Minister, and Sir Henry Wilson was Chief of the Imperial General Staff. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 September 1919, Page 5
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135THE EARLY TANKS. Taranaki Daily News, 1 September 1919, Page 5
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