Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-09-01 | Page 28 | Germans Flee When Whippet Tanks Charge Them, Patrol Gets Laggards

p o GERMANS FLEE WHEN WHIPPET TANKS r O O- CHARGE THEM PATROL GETS LAGGARDS O 9 C L 4 ic j 53 I i 4 A 6 A A 44 I II v t x y V. V t tI I n k st i V WI I X tr 7 E 4 l i 4 a K 4 i 4 55 t Jo N y r Al A Ncr C f acca Whippet tank going into action French patrol sniping Germans and Italians ready to take part in allied drive Tho 5 speedy ee French whippet tanks swept sv like a 3 cavalry force of ot steel against the Germans on tho plateau of ot Cutry in the opening da day o of the tho great allied offensive which started July 18 IS American infantry toll followed owed the tanks and plunged Into the tho Huns In three- three quarters of ot an hour the plateau was I cleared of ot the foe toe The Tho upper photo shows two of ot the tho tanks going into ac ac- ac- ac tion In the tte great allied advance the Germans repeatedly l have leave left some o of their number behind behind to In lay powerful explosives In buildings an rind and at other points to annihilate groups o of the al allIe allied allied al- al lIe lied soldiers French and American patrols composed o 0 sharpshooters have havo nailed most of or these Germans The photo photograph raph shows French crack shots at their work Italians have been ready at all times to aid the othol othel forces in the drive an and dl did take tako part to the tho east ast of or The photograph shows somo some of ot tho the Italians In their trenches or the tho western front