Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-11-04 | Page 14 | Australian Loses Credit for Planning the Best "Tank"

uu Australian Loses Credit for Planning The Best 'Tank" LONDON. Nov. 3. Corporal Demote, an Australian submitted plans for a ' tank" in If! 1 2 which were essentially rimilar to those used in the construction construc-tion of tanks and even better This admission was made today by the crown council at a resumption of the -ittint ui the royal commission on awards, which is dcalinc with the claims of 11 men seeking the honor and bounties attached to the invention of this formidable instrument of war. Corporal Demole. v. ho testified to day, was informed hy the chairman of the commission that his documents un fortunate! were pigeonholed in the war office and that the commission could not n commend an award to him although the claimant deserved the err a i os i , T-r-dii