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WEAPON OF WAR
(By Maj. E W. Sheppard)
great interest to military ment that their moral and circles in England is the mental effect has been, as one
first appearance of tanks in the would expect, very consider tand is also connected by ma sort of war that we are accus-Table.. At First Jöcrnalist Student friage with Proust
tomed to call "a small war
Moreover, it must not be for- Homer Croy, well own author. Indeed, London diplomacy has though the term can hardly be gotten as
regards mountain was the first student in the first a strong link with this author applied to a campaign such as warfare such as that in Tire, school of journalists in the world. The greatest living authority on that upon which Italy is em that, as Napoleon said as long Cars Versus Mules but be never took up imalist Proust is M. Cattani, the former barked in Abyssinia in an at-ago as 1796, the secret of suc- Mr. Croy says he slipped and be Secretary of the Egyptian Lega-tempt to subdue to her rule one cess lies in the mastery of the
tion there.
of the most warlike races in-valleys. "Your enemy may One of the things that Gen-came a novelist
The first school of journalism eral Badoglio promised before.
habiting one of the most in-dlimb the hills to fight, but he he left for the front was that was founded at the University of
accessible lands in the world cannot live there indefinitely, there would be not so much Missouri with Dean. Walter Wi
The British Army has in the and if you securely hold the recently, as the Hams, who died
must tank an interest which may be valleys, in the end he war news. That is the up-to- date attitude to the immensely head of the department. Mr. Croy
fitly described as paternal. We either come off his hills improved means of communics/was its first student, 1908.
invented tanks; we were the starve or surrender. tion. It is a sensible principle:
pioneers of tarik fighting in the
Particular Vale BRITISH DOGS
Great War, and our tanks play- though it is a somewhat notice-
Now, tanks
ordinarily able example of the conditions
ADMIRED
fed a preponderating part in the
move in the valleys, and that of to-day, which consist in set-!
decisive victory which, after with all the more safety because ting all the resources of the
Entries At Berlin
four years of effort and loss, they are armoured against bul- council chamber to stultify all
A stranded English actor went into owned our arms in the West. lets and have nothing to fear the inventions of the labora Autumn Show
ja sordid hash house in New York for
There is a school still very from snipers. This charac tory. The stricter censorship
cheap meal in the waiter he was much alive-especially in Indian teristic alone must make them, horrified Berlin has provoked no protest for two
to recognise a colleague Army circles, where there rules if used judiciously, of peculiar who had played with him in London. view based on the Northine in mountain warfare, reasons. The first is that in Great admiration is being ex- "Great Scott" he gasped. “You s
West Frontier ---- which any
sophis-pressed at the British entries for waiter in this place ***
con-where rifle fire is the thing case we are too ticated to believe what any the Autumn dog show here.
"Yes, but I don't eat here" replied siders that whatever the tank mainly to be feared. military staff tells us. We Two Kerry Blue Terriers, re-the other with some dignity.
may have done or may do in a In the Ogaden deserts, on the quite understand that gemine certly brought from England, are
European war, in a “small war'"other hand, the Italians are news would be treachery, and objects of much interest to fan-i
in a roadless and rugged coun-using their tanks in a different that patriotic spies have been ciers, as are also several Bedling-
try it has little, if any, value 2s way altogether. They are shot for giving less informatos Terriers, a breed little known tion than many a correspondent in Germany.
has been paid for with gener- There are 35 Airedales on show, ous bonuses and compliments.a number of English sheep-dogs, The second reason is that we besides Aberdeen and wire-haired are sufficiently conversant with terriers. the ways of an army to draw
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Only Worked There
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Hm-m!
"Pardon me,” said
*
a weapon.
she sanger, "are you a resident here ?”
sort of employing them as a "Yes," was the answer. "Tre been What Of Abyssinia
advance armoured screen to here goin' on fifty years. What kin
their slower-moving infantry do for you?
Now, do the experiences offcolumns, sending them well "I am looking for a criminal law-the Italians in Abyssinia; so ahead, 40 or more miles in yer," said the stranger.
"Have you
far as our information about front, to seize the wells and "we're them goes, bear out this belief? drive off the Abyssinian parties The Italian tanks have been guarding them and the snipers used in very different ways in lurking around.
{aay here?"
“Well" said the other, The show was opened by Dr. our own conclusions. We can Lippert, State
Commissar for pretty sure we have, but we can't infer the general drift of af-Berlin. There
prove it" were 800 entries fairs. and that is more satis-and 60-different breeds, including factory than being misled with
some enormous elk-bounds, 44 Ger- romantic accounts of small en-
man Bloodhounds and a long series counters.
of Dachshunds.-Reuter
are
واحد
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Orders are Orders
the rugged hilly country of This is an interesting and. Tigre and in the waterless de-novel role for tänks, and seems,
In the so far. to be proving highly A certain general, known for his serts of Ogaden.
There have been strict insistence upon implicit obedi advance to Adowa, the difficul- effective.
mechanical The people who are following
ence, met a soldier carrying a steam-ties of the ground and the isome
casualties, every detail with keen interest
the staff officers oepleted at the rate of twelve from the camp, cookhouse accessibility of many parts of due, no doubt, to crews and
"Here, you be ordered, “let me the Abyssinian positions natur-machines being worked too hard- various armies that are in the miles a day, including four or taste tha
ally Timited their effectiveness and for too long at a stretch. “But, sit, it isn't middle of mechanising their five engagements, of which one
"Don' was big enough to pull in every
give me any buts Get a to some degree.
The higher command, especial- forces and devising дет
The tanks were not able to ly if it has no personal experi- On nearing the spoor"
“Very good, sir?” methods of attack by air and available man.
The soldier doabled back to the go everywhere nor were they ence of what tanks can and cap- land. Vast amounts of public capital Theodore shot himself,
always able to find good far-not do. is always hable to ask surrendered. cookhouse and fetched one. and the town treasure will be used in one
algets. They have been essen-too much of them in the early Only mountain guns were The general helped himself to way rather than another be!
spoonful of the liquid and Immediate-tially an arm of opportunity-stages of a campaign Cavalry cause of the results obtained in taken, with male transport.
just as cavalry have been ever in their day have suffered from General De Bono, with a com-ly spat it out. so extensive an experiment plete modern outfit had to make he roared.
"You don't call that soup, do you?" since Napoleon's time. But this same tendency, which will, The test of actual warfare is roads as he went, and the work No, sir. That's what I was tryin' when the opportunities have no doubt, right itself in time.
[Continued on Page 11) immensely more satisfactory than anything that can be got put into road-construction has to tell you. It's disinfectant, siz come, there is general agree
been prodigious. But the rate from targets, because the of advance up to the middle of human target not only moves November was only two bat uses brains to avoid being miles a day, and since then the hit at least to teach it to do!
cars
so is the object of training army has been halted in order and the only safe calculation is to rebuild the roads more per- that the enemy will do what-anently, and establish fortifi- ed bases The advance had ever will be the most incon- been too fast for the climatic venient thing to ourselves.
conditions and the rough coun- Nothing very startling has so try. But the roads are not the far happened. Every war has only trouble. In advancing i its own character, and it is very over a twenty-mile front it is masafe to draw inferences from obvious that roads cannot be a scattered army in a moun- made to the flanks. There was tainous and wooded country no other than motor transport. and apply them to disciplined available, and it was put to forces in a fat terrain. But it work that was too severe for it. is worth noting that the proeven with caterpillar attach- phecy that observation from ments. The base is cluttered the air was likely to be dis-up with trolleys and appointing has been abundantly awaiting major repairs, many futiled. The Italians have of them laden with rations that hundreds of planes and skilled never reached the front line at pilots and observers, but not all. In the march to Aksum—” only are details hidden from an old capital both civil and them they have been quite un-religious the men suffered able to see large forces moving from lack of food, and that was down the valeys.under/cover of the reason for General De the forests, or to estimate the Bono's refusal to advance strength of these tribal levies further until he was assured There can be no doubt that this that supplies would be more re- style of advance must be put gulaz. The impressive fact is down to the Belgian and that the relief supplies were Swedish trained soldiers that sent up on the backs of mules, are acting as consultants. In and any further advance will the contest between science and rely on mule transport. geography, it is geography that Incidentally this has put a lot has scored all the points so far of very welcome money into the It is enlightening to compare pockets of the Kenya farmers, the advance from Eritrea, who had been badly hit by low which is the main effort, with prices for the last few JAKIE. the advance made by Lord The Ethiopians meantime have Napier Napier's object was to been using their males to bring release a number of European up rifles and ammunition, prisoners held by King Theo- mostly from Djibouti Thet dors at Addis Ababa. He took army mule has come into his four thousand British regulars, own again, as the animal that and eight thousand men of the has done mare wor for man- Indian Army, He-relied on kind with less c speed partly because it would tion than the organisa-1 the merm
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