THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 18, 1938.
SAVED LIFE
BY TAKING
A CIGARETTE
TANKS HELD AS
NA TO-
OPPUSING ARMIES ARMIES
Operation of tanks in the Chinese Fumbling in a friend's pocket for and Spanish wars has shown tha a cigarette saved the life of MI- one of their greatest contributions chael Gerney.
is to crush enemy lines arter two are stalemated. Powerful forces army officers in Washington com- mented.
The man with the cigarettes, who said, “Take one out of my pocket,” lost his life through not reaching for them himself.
He was Patrick O'Shea, thirty- five-year-old Irish labourer.
Observation of tank activities in these two connicts nas demonstrated that the tanks "cannot win wars D
are valuable as He was electrocuted at Batter- themselves," but
auxiliaries to manpower, military sea Power Station, London, S.W.. while gripping the
bar of a ce- experts said to United Press. ment-mixer which fouled a 500-. These two wars have served a volt electric cable.
testing grounds for tanks and O'Shea and six other workmen, have brought
out certain laughing and whistling, were push- nesses both in use and construction ing the mixer along when it came which military strategists and en- în contact with the cable.
gineers are now striving to correct.
Like Men Of Stone
Instantly
weak-
They have disproved, some army observers believe, the contention o. tank "enthusiasts" that future ar- every one of them mies would be completely mechan- was paralysed. Like men turned ised. War reports have shown, to stone they stood grasping the they assert, that the bulk of machine unable to let go, unable fighting, particularly in a drive to even to shout for help.
gain territory, must be carried on At last another workman saw by the men on foot.
and cut off the current.
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