Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-10-22 | Page 11 | Tanks Save Many Lives for Allies

TANKS SAVE MANY L1VESF0R ALLIES Great War Machines Hare Important Part in Victory. ay Aaaaaiatad Press. - LONDON. Oat. M. Tetrty-eig tanks ana battalion eave al laaal a tbauaand caaualtlaa every day tbay ara ta act tan. Tha British war expert who mada thta statement, whlla dlacuaalrtf tha praaant allied offanaiva. cantlnuad: "Wa hava uaad la tha najhllac to data only a fraction of tha man-tha anamy baa baan aecuatomad to am ploy for aimllar aftraalvaa and va hava mada up tha dlf-fwrrnra dlf-fwrrnra Unca!r wth tanka. atnea tha ultimate victory will fall to tha aid with tha blpt ara. tha mora Jmnka. w hav th mur aaaured our victory. "It haa brvn oommnnly thouahl that a direct lilt by a ahell maana destruction far tha tank. Not alwaya. A fortnight mgo a tanU rareivd aavan direct hit from a tZertnun 77 run.' but tha tank ! rtnlhd lta job and trundled book ta Ita t itlire. "Another In the Cambral refto want over a rit directly la front of a Oarmaa !l.o liter. The howllaer fired from rifty tarda away and a ahell tore off part of j the tank a aid. But tha tank 'went on, '.IrNli.a riaht over the howltaer and pt- i .. .1 eat al IMI. , ItM-anliy Majur llenaral Baely. deputy minlatatNof munltlona, aald: "l apeae. th lltrri truth when 1 aay that I. and hundreds of other It haa baan my privilege vo lead, would be dead now but for the tanX They prebably eared Amtena. Thay cdrijilnly anvaa ua." X-