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Show oo TANKS DO GREAT j WORK IN BATTLE I WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN ! FRANCE, April 27. (By The Asso- ! elated Press.) The slaughter caused! by the small British tanks amonq a concentration of the eneim n .u Cachy in Wednesday lighting appears1 to have been even greater than was originally reported. A few of these little lit-tle engines, which are much faster than the ordinary big tanks, made the assault so quickly on two to three battalions bat-talions of the enemy's infantry which were forming for an attack, that the Germans were unable to scatter before they were being fiercely deluged with machine gun bullets. Not only that, but a large number of men were caught beneath the tanks and ground into the earth Prisoners estimate that at least two and probably three Germant companies) were wiped out in a few minutes. The machines returned in such hor- I rible condition from the shambles that they had to be washed down. One German prisoner had a rough experience with the small tanks and lived to tell the story, although he was! much shaken as a result of bis ex - j perience. He got separated from his unit and was hiding in a shell hole near Cachy when a tank charged di- I recU.v over the hole. It was deep ' enough to protect the German, but he was so terrified that he lost consciousness con-sciousness and was just regaining his senses when the performance v as repeated re-peated bj a second tank. Again he escaped and saved himself further! trials by being captured. Only four German tanks appear to have been in action Wednesday about Villers-Bretonneux, although numbers of others are rumored to have been assigned to participate in the at- ! tack. The fourth guards division which advanced against the town from the south, expected seven tanks to accompany ac-company them, but three of them did not appear. |