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Show I oo- BULLETS NAVE Hlffi EFFECT i HIS LONDON, Nov. 21. (Correspondence (Correspond-ence of the Associated Press.) Machine-gun bullets sprayed against the sides of a tank produce a queer effect ef-fect within it, says one British army officer who has spent three months fighting with his tank in France. Tho bullet, he says, cannot pierce the armor ar-mor but it does knock off on the inside a thin flake of steel that pulverizes and flies in all directions. It gets into the faces and hands of the crow and stings them like a strong wind on a cold day. The surgeons have found that a simple bath of iodine solution will heal the pain and prevent Infection. Describing the scone within a tank which is being hit with machine-gun bullets the officer offic-er said: "As the bullets strike the tank, simultaneously sim-ultaneously with the sound of Impact and tho creation of the flake, a blue flame is seen, and when a machine-gun machine-gun is playing up and down the joints In the hope of finding a weak spot, the interior looks much like a demonstration demonstra-tion of cheap fireworks "While there is no danger from machine-guns to n tank crew, there is real and pressing danger from armor-piercing armor-piercing or explosive shells. "Unless it is possible to get within a mile of the guns before being (lis covered ono is liable to come within a range of shells that will wipe the tank off the face of the earth. A direct hit means that everybody is going to get hurt with the chances that somebody is going to be killed. The Germans were always trying to make such a hit. Once within a mile of the enemy the tank is comparatively safe for the guns cannot be depressed to get tho range. Then the only thing the tank has to deal with is the machine-gun. When this is accurately located tho tank quickly runs it down. The German Ger-man machine-gunner was Germany's best fighter. Generally he would hang on to a position, peppering the lumbering lum-bering tank until he found it was no use and fled or was run over. "One of the tricks we learned was tho tremendous value of tanks against masses of enemy troops. At first we were content to use the ordinary machine-guns in tanks but in the latter months we used the shell time to explode ex-plode as It left the gun, scattering Its scores of leaden bullets like a shot gun. Troops without artillery were solely unable to stand such fire. on |