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Show BRITISH TANKS ARE lERIDEHY PAPER Correspondent Calls War Machine the Most Audacious Au-dacious Invention. BERLIN, Nov. 4. German correspondents correspond-ents ridicule the British "tanks." The correspondent of the Tageblatt says: Everywhere the technicians have been busy upon the problem of diminishing- losses during the attack, but It hus been reserved to the English Eng-lish to elaborate the most audacious Invention in that direction. Their caterpillar, a creeping monster which is an armored motor roller, made Its appearance for the first time before our positions in the middle of September. Its orders were nothing less than the annihilation of the machine ma-chine guns, which are so dreaded by the attacking force. This new war monster may be described de-scribed approximately as an armored motor car, with two small towers in which are placed two six-pounder guns, as well as a machine gun. It is manned and manipulated by an officer, a driver with a mechanic, four men at the guns and one for the machine gun. A periscope with various vari-ous prisms allows the manipulators an outlook from under their cover. The "Big Willy," as the English call their monstrous creature, has a so-called so-called endless - rail, i. e., it bays ft track for Itself. It can even make a kind of bridge for itself, and in its trials at home it rode with splendid success over five trenches and a crater. Lloyd -George, Asquith, Robertson, King George and several French generals gen-erals were full of praises during this inspection. Five torpedo hoats convoyed con-voyed the new war machine across the channel. Yet when it went for the first time into a real fight on Sep-1 Sep-1 tember 16 "Big Willy" died a sudden death from the first shrapnel shell that hit it. ' |