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Show oo TANKS DO GREAT I WORT. What the tanfca are dolus xnd -will continue to do In this war Is thus commented on by the- New York World: Wo are accustomed to regard the tanks In war as "tremendous engines i for smashing tho foe. A BritiBh' ex-pert ex-pert invites us to consider them aa I great Instruments for saving their own armies. It is estimated that a battalion battal-ion of thirty-alx tanks will save at least 1000 casualties every day they are in battle. Certainly it is one of the aims in action ac-tion to spare one's own forces while doing as much damage ns possible to tho enemy. Yet it does seem almost a paradox of twentieth-century war that wo are able thus to apply actual figures of life-saving to tho work of trench-straddling, defense-crushing, indomitable in-domitable steel monsters which to their victims must look things of inextinguishable in-extinguishable terrors. This invention of the hour does not wholly dispose, however, of tho Na-jpoleonlc Na-jpoleonlc dictum of victory for the heaviest battalion sof men. A great part of tho tanks valuo lies in the fact that with them on tho offensive it is possiblo to do with a fraction of the fighting force which a tankless drive would require. Behind the armored ar-mored monsters making their ruthless way forward there are rest and freshening fresh-ening for tho living reserves upon whose overbalancing numbers tho ultimate ulti-mate issue of the strife will most probably prob-ably depend. |