Show Care Caterpillars in Warfare I J JUST T USI as eve everybody was preparing to congratulate conti con- con ti the British war ministry upon the invention of the Juggernaut Jug tank t. c cars and nd to agree with David Georgo George that tho enemy enem has by no means a a. monopoly on Inventive Ingenuity some kill Joy arises to remark that the fearsome movable land forts Corts which crawl over the terrain and incidentally incidentally incident incident- all ally tho anem enemy like some monster aro are only tho the familiar caterpillar tr tractors used on American farms and manufactured manufactured manufactured manu manu- In However tho the British government go must I bo given credit for tor applying appling to offensive warfare t this almost uncanny machine which I climbs fences uproots trees crosses swamps swamp traveling apparently a n. horse can cango cango cango go killing with bull bullets ts the thc few tow of ot tho the enemy It Jt has failed to scare to death Those These tn tractors trac trac- c- c tors tom have been used throughout tho toe war in dragging great guns from place to place and perhaps It Is not so wonderful after atter all that their employment directly in the tho grim busness business business busi bus ness of or killing should have havo occurred to Winston Churchill former first lord of oC tho the admiralty to whom praise has been given C for fr r evoking tho idea If U as ns Is Js reported with much circumstantial detail tho the Germans were as ns much surprised sur sur- b by these crawling monsters as wore cre creth th the French and English Ush b by the use of or gas at Ypres that amazement Is not likely to continue long The Thc caterpillar tractor Is not unknown In Germany Its use uso thero there antedated antedated antedated ante ante- dated tho the war Wo may therefore expect to o learn of or caterpillar duels recalling tho the ancient days when the champions of opposIng opposing opposing ing armies met mt in a cleared space between them and ond made tho the Issue personal and conclusive con con- elusive b by a fight to the death |