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HUNTING THE HUNS.
DOINGS OF THE NEW BRITISH ARMOURED CARS,
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RATION ALLOWANCE AND FREE TRAVELLING WARRANTS.
Since the Imperial Government invited offers of service from the Volunteer Corps, the services of 247 infantry bat- talions have been accepted by the King.. Every county in England, as well as many of those of Scotland and Wales, is represented in the list, says an official announcement, and further offers are still being received.
breaking through the barbed wire and VOLUNTEERS AT HOME. jumping the trenches." The paper adds that in the Gorman ranks there was mad terror, the enemy falling back abandon- ing arms, ammunition and equipment,
Renter's Special Correspondent at British Headquarters says the first The utmost interest and satisfaction of the ponderous machines to sail solemn have been aroused (our London Correly into Fler, bore a newspaper plucard on spondent writes) by the anexpected. ap
its side with the legendGreat Hun pearance of the new British armoured cars on the western front. All accounts go Defeat-Extra Special Edition. This to show that not only are they effective particular car won its laurels by putting from a military standpoint, but they battery and a half of field guns out of
action. have sreated panic among the enemy.
Another of these wonderful machines Any description of the cars in detail after pausing to clear out a couple of is not permissible for obvious reasons. cnetay trenches, was approached by But they have been likened to steel large party of Buches, demonstratively monitors as big as the ground floor anxious to capitulate. Indeed, they were of a London house," to "moving forts." apparently a little too demonstrative, to perambulating: Dreaduughts"--and for they were not at first understood. many other things. The army has nick-Wo cried out Kamerad pardon,' '! named them "Tanks." One fact, how said a prisoner, but the great ugly ever, is established-they can go over things went on spitting bullets at us. trenches, knock down walls and climb Neecliess to say, Reuter's Correspondent across the debris, squash dug-outs as andda, our men are vastly bucked by steam roller would flatten out a wasps these latest additions to their fighting nest, and are impervious to any fire
strength. short of a direct hit by a big gun.
The
Times Special Correspondent writing on the cars says
--LIKE-PREHISTORIC MONSTERS."
All British subjects over 17 years of age, not actually serving with the. Colours, are eligible for enrolment in the Volunteer Force, and it is specially desir- able that those not engaged on important war work and physically capable of rendering useful service should come forward for enrolment.
Sperial constables may enrol in Volun teer corps. All enrolled Volunteers minst, however, be regarded as at the disposal of the military authorities when the force
called out.
The Volunteers can only be called out for actual service if and when it becomes necessary for the purpose of repelling the enemy in the event of an invasion being imminent, but they can render valuable in the meantime by assuming service responsibility for guarding, on the rata system, certain vulnerable points, lines of coinmunication. etc., thus releasing full-time troops for other duty, and by performing other military work.
There are certain classes of men employed in munition works, on railways and Department department whose civil- work in connection with the war is of such importance that they would serve One of the "tanks rumbled up to their country better, in the event of the entrance of a strongly fortified sugar attempted invasion by remaining at their refinery--a perfect nest of machine-guns ordinary duties. Such men may be able, coughing bullets as it came, burst open however, to give useful eervier in the Two days before they were used in the barricaded door, stattering sandbags Volunteer Force prior to the occurrence of the present advance (the capture of the like feathers in a chicken fight, and got that emergency, and they will be placed on German third line of September lüt in among the machine gunners.
Not enrolment in a special section, and not called ont with the innin hady of 16th) I had an opportunity to see a lot long afterwards there fell a hush, upon
Volunteers. of them--a whole herd-where they were which our infantry marched in and took resting before their first experience of undisputed possession of the place; real war. It was as incredible as whilst the ungainly machine-named by nightmare or one of Jules Verne's most the Tommies "Creme de Menthe" and fantastic imaginings. A slight hollow, Flagship' at that was clumsily a few acres in extent, in a level plain bumping its way out again to go and was full of the monsters, like cows in a do more mischief amongst the Baches' meadowhuge shapeless hulks, resem-impregnable defences. bling nothing cle that was over seen on earth, which wandered Wither and thither like st vast antediluvian
Mr. Philip Gibbs has some fine talk brutes which Nature had made and in the Chronicle and the Telegraph forgotten. Painted in venomous reptilian about the tanks." He declares that colours, which made them admirably in the official description of them as "the visible against the dan background of heavily armoured motor machine-guns dry autumn grass and le soil, they of a new style," mentioned already in were inexpressibly suggestive of living the official bulletin, is a dull one com- things-hybrids between Beheutoth and pared with all the rich and rare quali
It is of the essence of the movement the Chimaera, toad-salamanders, echid-ties which belong to these extraordinary na dragons anything you please, which vehicles. The secret of them was kept that such service rendered prior to the is mythical and fantastic.
for months jealously and nobly. It was emergency is voluntary and unpaid, the "I was permitted to go inside one of only a few days ago that it was whispered work done being an active contribution 10 their country's defence by men who are the beasts and inspect its vitals in all to me.
Lika prehistoric monsters.
You precluded for various reasons from sery- their incredible details; and I watched
Free travelling ing with the colours. the great things maneuvre about the know, the old ichthyosaurus," said the warrants will be provided and a ration field, grotesque and unspeakable; and officer. I told him he was pulling my allowance calculated at the rate of 5d. at each new antic which they performed, leg.. But it's a fact, man!" He for each six hours continuous duty (the each new capacity which they developed, breathed hard, and laughed in a queerordinary army rate) is payable to the one could do nothing but sit down and way
enormous comicality.funds of the corps which provides the laugh till one's sides ached. Were they They cut up houses and put the refuse men. Further, compensation for death or only a preposterous joke or were they under their bellies. Walk right over injury sustained as a result of the duty is payable generally on the lines of the serious contribution to modern warfare!'em!" It was impossible to make 'up one's 1 knew this maa was a truthful and Workmen's Compensation Act, 1906. If the Volunteer Force is ever called out for mind. But that they were appalling simple soul, and yet could not believe. and hideous was certain is one saw They knock down trees like mateh-netual full-time military service, officers
me with them in the gathering dusk wheel off sticks," he said, staring at and, tulling into single file, heave their shining eyes. They go clean through
uge bodies one by one up the sides of a wood the hollow, and then go shouldering off outlined against the skyline, like a great string of mammoths to take up their positions in the battle front.
ut some
And anything else?" I asked, en- joying what I thought was a new sense of humour.
Everything else," he said earnestly "They take ditches like kangaroos, They simply love shell-craters Laugh
"But
Just
PAY, ETC.
and Volunteers so called out will bo treated as regards the issue of pay, separation allowance and tompensation for death or injury precisely on the same footing as Territorial troops.
The authorised colour of the Volunteer uniform will be green grey, not khaki, and in order to conserve the supply of wool, a special pattern of cloth has been manufactured.
"We know now and the Germans
In many cases Volun- know, that as. a contribution to modern
teers have already provided themselves warfare they have proved themselves at
It appeared also that they were with suitable clothing at their own ex- very serious indeed. Some of the officer
proof against rifle bullets, machine gun pense and this system of provision will prisoners really get angry on the sub
be continued for the present. with the ject, as if they had never heard of poi-bullets, bombs, shell-splinters.
proviso that the cleth- must be obtained. sonous gases or Flummenwerfer or for shrugged their shoulders and passed on. pedoing passenger ships or dropping Nothing but a direct hit from a fair-from the War Office on repayment. De- tailed arrangements will shortly be bombs on open towns and shelling scar sized shell would do them any barm.
what's the nama of these announced.
Some assistance in the matter of ac sido resorts, so exquisite is the German
mythical monsters?" I asked, not be- sense of humour.
lieving a word of it. He said "Hush "coutrement and other equipment will he
Hush given by the War Office, Some few met with mishaps: that Other people said "Bush was inevitable. Others exceeded expec- when the subject was alluded to in a tations. There were joyous stories gaite remote way. And since then I have darly in the fight brought in by airmen heard that one name for them is the them with some sort of superstitious who had seen the individual monsters Huah-busb.'' But their real name is terror for the first few minutes, till day- waddling over the shell-torn ground in Tanks.
light disclosed their true nature. the open far from our front line and
For they are real, and I have seen Even then they were alarming enough. in advance of the infantry who wore them, and walked round them, and got With Indierous serenity they wobbled busy cleaning up the trenches in the inside their bodies and looked at their across the gridiron fields and shook rear: One was reported rolling majes mysterious organs, and watched their themselves as if the bullets were flies tically and atone down the empty main monstrous movements. I came across a that bit just deep enough to deserve a street of Flers long before the place washerd of them in a field, and, like the flick. Those who had inspected. Cours. Others, displaying large signs, countrymen who first saw a giraffe, said these saurians in their al fresco stalls "Great German Defeat Special Hell!... I don't believe it." Then beforehand or followed their lethargic Extra!" led our men victoriously into I sat down on the grass and laughed course over impossible roads in the moon- Martinpuich. Another seems to have until the tears came into my eyes. (In light gasped with humorous wonder ab gode unaccompanied into. B certain
Munchausen never ap war one has a funny sense of humour.) the prodigy. sugar factory by Couronlatte, which was
For they were monstrously comical, likeproached the stories imagined for them known to be strongly fortified,
toads of vast size emerging from the by soldiers. But their pet name is simply terrorized it not an eagle, but primeval slime in the twilight of the tanks," and they were chiefly regarded aplesiosaurus, in a divecote. "In re
as a practical joke. Whales, Boojums, ducing the objectionable strong points
Dreadnoughts, slugs, snarks-never were. about High Wood they were invaluable,
creatures that so tempted the gift of and one wounded sergeant to whom I The skippers of one of them intronicknaming. They were said to live on spoke told ecstatic stories of the way induced me to themin. I felt awfully trees and houses and jump like gran- which one mastodon just butted into the bucked," said the young officer (who is hoppers or kangaroos, remaining tree trunks there and crashed ft. high) when my beauty ate them down on top of the defenders of the stronghold.
and
"Of course, they are only an experi- mont; but on their first day they justi fied themselves completely. In one short hour they did more military service, killed more enemy in uniform, and had a greater influence on the war than all
the Zeppelina bave ever done.
world's dawn,
"THEY LOVE TREES."
The crews had the full pioneer spirit.. up her first house. But I was sorry for The courage of the men who took this virgin journey in the Trojan motor-cars. the house, which was quite a good one."
"And how about trees?' I asked was rewarded. The tanks did not They simply love trees," he answered. make the success of the day, but they When our soldiers first saw these did good service. One was able to pur strange creatures folloping along the aue a number of Germans down the roads and over old battlefields, taking Bapaume road, and took prisoners. trenches on the way, they shouted and Some trenches were enfiladed by them, cheered, wildly, and laughed for a day and useful firing was recorded pf a A French liaison officer, who acts as link between the British and French afterwards. And yesterday the trotank" which entered Flers, where it armies, told Reuter's correspondent with go out of their trouches laughing and is said to have walked down the ex-High buge glee of the consternation which shouting and cheering again because the Street amid cheers
Tanks had gone on ahead and were scar- spread among the Germans when these ing the Germans dreadfully while they sinister flat-footed monsters, advanced spouting Sames from every side, and moved over the enemy's trenches, and careless alike of rifle and machine gun poured out fre on every side.
Mr. Beach Thomas says the moonlight tre right up to and over the barbed wire transformed the "armcured cars" into entanglements, crushing everything be- fore them, seeking out hidden machine fantastic monsters. "Autos blindés" is the French term. To watch one crawl guns and silencing them, making the ing round a battered wood in the half- through their communication trenches light was to think of the Jabberwock impossible by enfilading fire and holding with eyes of lame, who
"Came whiffling through the tulgey up terrified bands of Germans eager to
wood, fee.
advance of the German reinforcements
the
CON:
And burbled as it came."" This expression of opinion is firmed by the correspondent of the Though now the sun was near the edge Liberté en
Somme front, who of our world, though moonlight and says: "At the precise moment when sanlight struggled to give distinctress to the bombardment stopped the Germans the world, the enemy ill-distinguished had the surprise of seeing advance in the guise of these iron monsters, which front of the waves of assaulting troops in truth amused our men rather than
a jest hearts, possibly, faithful enormous steel monsters from which encouraged them. They were spurted a continuous fire of great vio cheering lence. One would have described them as creatures, but no rival to the bayonet. gigantic infernal machines. Their front. which was shaped like a ram, smashed down every obstacle.
The heavy automobiles bounded across the overturned and uneven ground
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IMPERTINENCE. One German officer I met said it was an impertinence" to use them; and some of the German soldiers regarded
Several had dashing adventures. One appeared to break into flames and smoke, but was in truth shaking off from its pachyderm the peity insults of Ger ran bombers. We got nothing from them but blue sparks," said one captured machine-gunner.
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A DAY'S LEAVE. Mr. Percival Phillips tells the follow- 'ng good yarn
the ExpresN.. "One man who entered Martinpaich, deserves a paragraph by himself, He was attached to a wholly different unit and yesterday his commanding officer rave him a day's leave. He spent vit in an armoured car which went through the village, and explained afterwards that he didn't want to miss the show
The Morning Part's Correspondent says "Tanks" is the popular Army designation for the new form of ŒT, and it anparently travelled with them from the factory of their birth. "Tauk however, be declares, docs not descrie them accurately-you might as well call them travelling turrets or touring forts but "tants" they doubtless will be to the war and beyond.