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THE preda “Special to the Telegraph"
August: 30, 1940.
YOU CAN STOP
TH
THE
TANK
,
Watercourses are lank obstacles,
operate,
bring up and
moured louvres, and are usually contrived on the upper surfaces
of the hull
Burning liquids thrown upon these louvres tend to be sucked into the engine compartment and to set the tank on fire, in jufficient quan tity.
ing in a ditch were able to throw a (g) In Spain, it is said, men hid-
petrol-soaked blanket so that it be came entangled in the tank-track and to fire it, thus burning of the bogle-tyres and causing the tank to shed its track,
fighting other
It was also reported that in street-
destroyed them with petrol.
heroes had even
(f) The most vulnerable portion of a tank is the suspension: Lo. the track, bogies and sprockets. The fracture of single track-pin breaks the track and Immobilisez the
Lank By Major-General P. C. S. HOBART, D.S.O., M.C.
Track-pins are weakened by strain and by rocky or stony going. A (Commander Tank Brigade, 1933-37; t Director of Military Training, War Office 1937-38),
small mine or a few pounds of ex- THERE is now little danger It is unnecessary, therefore, to (b) Tanks can only shoot in the plosive exploded in contact with a
that the value of tanks will entielpate enemy tank attack in the direction in which their weapons are
irack are suffelent to break IL. The numbers used in Belgiumk
destruction, of a bogle or even a and pointing. The larger the turret, the bogie-tyre is apt to bring the track be underrated by the civilian. France.
slower the traverse. If an enemy off the sprocket and the tank to a The triumphant and unparal
tank comes along a road, with its leled success of the German especially if the banks and bottoms behind roadside cover should get n
standstill. weapons trained ahead, the defender armoured forces has established are muddy. Streams of any depth free shot or two as it passes and stiu clearly in the public mind the can only be crossed by bridges or have time
take cover before the supremo importance of this arm by special contrivances which muste turret can be traversed.
time to in conjunction with air force in require land warfare.'.
(c) All tanks have apertures for A great part of England is par-vision, for gun-rights, etc. These There is rather some danger of ticularly unsuitable for tank man- apertures are usually sensitive to an exaggerated idea of the invin oeuvre. It is generally close, much amall-arm fire. It may be possible cibility of these wachines. It in the cut up by ditch and bank, and full to block an enemy tank in mich purpose of this article to point out of brooks and other small obstacles position that close and accurate fire
which slow down and delay tanks, can be brought to bear on it.
(h) The belly of a tank is usually some of their soraknonses.
the most lightly armoured portion. even If they do not stop them. The bulk of the armoured Moreover, broadly speaking, the (d) Tanks are unable to depress It is exposed to fire from the bank, forces of Germany have been smiler the
its their weapons sufficiently to shoot and from behind when dropping performance. The at objects on the grounds close to down the far side. organised and trained as large light tank is quite unable to tackle them. The lower down you ore and NONE OF THE " ABOVE' IN- and fast-moving formations of many a feld-bank, dilch or even the closer to the tank, the safer you (VOLVES THE USE OF SPECIAL tanka accompanied by light ele-tout hedge that in easily traversa- are from its fire. ments of motor-cyclists and ble by the bigger varieties.
(0) In addition to apertures for Buggy or waterlugged ground is vision, tanks must have large open- armoured cars, and followed by unfavourable to mechanised move-inga for air-intots for the engine. especially trained motorised in-ment,
The Germans have been These are usually guarded by or- fantry, but unhampered by lucky in their wenther. The dry alower-moving arms. They were conditions have made passable much commanded by men with
country that would have been im- ex- possible in wet weather, especially perience of and faith in the for the wheeled portions of the tank, who were allowed freedom of manoeuvre, and given wide discretion in exploiting success.
These formaliona were laun- ched over terrain suitable this island. for their movement, and, even when less favourable and more
is used by the "lungkung Telegraph toment which enabled their com- manders to exploit immediately any weak spot discovered.
indicate news which is sirictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni- cations Ordinance, 1934. Such naws M bears the indication "UP” in reeelvad in Bengkung on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who re- serve all rights and furbia repabileation, either wholly or in part without previous Kerangement,
✩
✰
Cross-country
tank the poorer
force. But, even in this dry sum- her and even in Western Europe, their tanks kept to the roads an far on possible. This procedure will be forced on them more than ever 12
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intersected country was reached, TANKS are dependent on petrol. The German nrmoured forma- they were able to secure cross-tons
were able to keep going on Ings and continue their advance the fuel stocks they found behind by the rapidity of their move the Allied lines. We must ensure ment and by the wide deploy. good me that they are unable do this In England. We must drastically reduer
the number of petr petrol-pumps, especially in isolated | positiona, und lake `steps lu muke | certain that no supplies can fall Into
the enemy's hands, even
If this en- tails
Inconvenience to our eivilian motorists meanwhile,
When invasion takes place, mall bodies of enemy tanks and motorised succeed In will probably Unless a good port, with har-ro bour facilities in working order.able distances
pushing inland, perhaps to consider- They can only make can be seized, it will hardly be great progress by keeping to roads.
with ал possible for the invader to innd
effective system heavy or medium tanks in large road-blocks their advance numbers. It may be possible to devices adopted in Spain and Fin- British have had for a long time, disembark some on beaches from and to deal with amall numbers of The paper addled---and
specially constructed ships or tanks have been described, F1 worth This unexpected deflance from flat-bottomed boats, but quoting
Troubled Waters
The "New York Tames" which is usually extremely well inforned, recently decured that "the refusal of General Metaxas to renounce the British ginamitee to Greece the Arst nole
confidence that the
IT is Improbable that such conditions could be repeated in this country.
made extremely hazardous,
There ure
certain
of local
can be Various
weaknessea
by the weakest of the Balkan States for the most part such vessels common to all types: algnates two things: the weight of can carry only light or cruiser the look-out has his head out of the
airfelds.
dimeult.
(a) Tanka are rather blind unless British
m the Eastern types. sea power Mediterranean and the intention of
armour. In which case he is vulner- Britain to maintatu her position in
Light tanks can also be car-able, especially from houses or When closed that area, which may turn out to ried by airplanes, but can be other roudside cover, be the major battlefeld of the war," landed only from these on good restricted and all-round outlook 15 down, the vision of the tank crew in While we would not venture prophesy on the future વા the eastern Mediterranean, # would we dare say that the "najor battle“ will be in that part of the world. there is every indication that the shadow of war is lowering percepti bly over the Eastern Mediterranean. Germany seems to have succeeded
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FUNNY SIDE UP
ANTI-TANE WEAPONS, NOR DO THEY BY ANY MEANS EXHAUST THE POSSIBLE METHODS OPEN TO THE INGENUITY OF STOUT- HEARTED VOLUNTEERS.
By Abnor Dean
Cor. 196 by Cubbed Probars Brabants, kas,
749
"Were you a good little boy while Daddy was away?"'
PORTRAIT OF A BRITISH FOREMAN
When the French firm HIS name is Melbourne Johns and he comes from
In some extent in persuading Ru-} delivery from America of cer-
manis into glying her Balkan neigh-
bours considerable portion of hertain important machine tools,
JJ
Pembrokeshire; a short, burly, square shoul-
own territury. it is true that there and had difficulty in assembling dered man, with an immense head and jutting
is "auny slip twixt the cup and them, it was natural that "Mel"
stated in this connection that the
the ex-Premier,
to the coast of France.
men
ram-
From
under the
of hose
tools
ten
But
By PATRICIA WARD
the
"But it did the
IT took them three days, and nights to reach port on, the West Coast of England. The ship was full of refugees; mostly women and
the Bp", and the Hungaro-Rummion Johns should be sent across the jaw, uncannily like a bulldog. negotiations over Transylvania have Channel to advise, for in the two
He is foreman in an armament factory "somewhere in the But the Constiıl was not there. so far not run too smoothly. It is countries there are few
Midlande"; a factory which until recently was subsidiary to a There was an attache, stift with red tape and responsibilty, who guar- Rumanian delegation is headed by with a greater knowledge of all larger one in South-west France.
anteed John's personal passage M. Valerian Pop, types of machinery.
the, So off he went into the highways home, but "regretted about who recently declared himself "Come back when the job's 'done," enemy. in the middle of all the and byways behind the factory to machines—— strongly against any attempt either they said, as they pucked him into confusion and chaos of the Ger- look for help. And drawn up by It was then that this stocky little "to deliver up the Rumanions in the R.AF. airplane that was to fly man advance through France, this the side of the road he found annan went off the handle. Like the Transylvania to foreign domination him
British He sturdy
had Army workman
lorry manned by four ex-bull-dog he resembles, he tore at or impair the political unity of Ru- reached his destination after a fur- snatched his precious
and hausted Tommies.
that ofcial, He ranted and he mania'
The fact that a man of Cher fight and there he remained brought them safely home. That this calibre has been chosen by the for several weeks. Then suddenly was "the job" he did; a job
They were lost. They had been roured, he shouted, and he bullied.
*It worries me sometimes, to Rumanian Government to take part Hitler burst through the Allied
times the size
of the one he was driving south and further south for in the humiliating discussion of sur- parts. Great armles roiled back in sent out to do, though he doesn't, the better part of a week, without remember the names I called that
sleep, without food for hours at aman," he told me. render of territory, seems to indicate headlong retreat upon Paris and be- see it that way.
time, trying unsuccessfully rejoin trick, all right." that the negotiations may not run yond. A sea of refugees engulfed
only did what anyone else the unli from which they had got. The official gave way. Johns was and what is perhaps of greater im- the towns and villages, a torrent of would have done, and I had a lot of seporated. portance at this time, not so speedily humans, horses, cattle,
given shipping-space for his lorry, and
ma-luck," he'll tell you in real embar- as he would wish.
chines. Into this
"That lorry was dark tide disap-
just what Isailing permite for his four soldiers rassment. Observers are of the opinion that peared "Mel" Johns. Mussolini's trade against Greece on
But his luck was the result of needed for my machines," Johns told and himself, and a guide to take The
last British troops reached enterprise, and the story of those me. "So I talked the boys into him to the quayside, and a ship. behalf at Albania, who, of herself, England. The last refugees from salvaged machines is, as an illus-coming along with me. They didn'tThere he and his tireless Tommies hus no particular plaint, enables him to bluster and while the
chuse for com- Bordeaux were brought off. Then tration of individual resourcefulness much want to thought their duty lung the lorry aboard and jumped demand concessions which, should home were reading the fearful and
people of his Midland and courage, in the nature of a saga. was to go on looking for their unit after it as the first Nazi airplanes
explained how important it appeared over the town. they not succeed, can be withdrawn agonising story of the final evacun-
was to get those machines back without loss of face as such tirades tion from Europe, an Army lorry and accusations leave him free, tu rumbled into the factory yard, in him in France
WHEN the RAF. first landed home so we could make more guns to beat the Jerries with. And so declare Albania as "aatisfied", should the driver's cab sat "Mel" Johns
he was still some they agreed to help." circumstances advocate such a step. Loaded on that lorry were the way from his factory. News from
They drove back to the factory, Mussolini is waiting for his cue four machines which he had gone
the North was 'bad, and motor-120 from Berlin, who, in turn, is wait-out to inspect; each the size of roads
***transport Was worse because the those four exhausted Tommies and
children. ing for the settlement of the Hun- baby grand plano, each worth £4,000, streams of population in flight.
were blocked by endless the
determined foreman., Between them they dismantled the machines; There were not enough life-belts garlan-Rumanian territorial ques-all Invaluable in the manufacturing Johns couldn't tions before any more decisive step of arms, and all irreplaceable under I can't speak French and anyway-we've got to get there before It's went down to the hold and removed to round, but there were a lot of a lift, "because get
and plied them on the lorry.
"Now drive like hell to Bordeaux civilians' cars on board. So Johns there wasn't room in any of the
the tyres, from every cár, blew up the inner tubes and handed them to everyone who had not got a life-belt. Then he found a British officer in. but they stopped for nothing on the charge of a quantity of valuables.
didn't tell me what they were, to dény most emphatically the ru- war" and in the Balkans. But Ger- Red tape and red tabs means way. Johns sat in front with his mours spread from sources domin man intrigue must be wardly managed nothing to "Mel" Johna. So after bond on the driver's arm, shaking and I didn't like to ask, ha ex- when he threatened to fall plained. "But rumour went that it ated by her Axis partners, that she so as not to create difficulties with her a bit of talking, he said I couldn has
the wheel. nsleep
Was radium, plus the Belgian Crown made demands on Turkey in powerful neighbour. Russia is, how come too."
over.
Jewels, said to be worth 25 millions, regard to the Dardanelles. This ever, astute enough to know where Big man and little man flew off "Three miles outside Bordeaux we does not say tha
that such demands will she stands. She cannot have fork together, and that's how Johns got inet some French soldiers going out and the question aroso as to how they could be saved if the ship got not be made should she find it ex-gotten Hitler's own words to Herr to his factory, Almost: on arriva with guns to stop, the Germans," he
sink pedient to do so, but quite rightly, Rauschning which he reported in he was handed a telegram from the told me. They were only three Rusela is not anxious to be pushed Hitler Speaks".".
"So I thought of a raft, and we English Arm telling him to return hours behind us, but that was the There by either Germany or Italy Into any
made one from the planks that were is no reason why I at once in view of the gravity of rst time we realised It position before she is ready for it, shouldn't make a pact with Russia the news.
And so his resolve to get the_ma-lying: dfound "In the hold. We The situation is
on to If on a. delicate one, if that will improve my position in one of the R.AF. airplanes. But the need for haste. ·.·
"I knew I could get back all right chines away was strengthened by loaded the valuables
the lower deck. It was a lovely Germany favours Rusala's embroil, it will depend on Poland when ment with Turkey which would give happens. But in this way we it seemed a terrible pity to leave Up to the portals of the British raft would have floated nicely
own of influence,
sary for us On tively,
Army lorry.
nothing did would further entangle Great Bri- we should then distrust each other Themen at the factory they Up the stairs to the Consul's room his journey ended, and this Indomit- tala, but Russia could not tolerate more than ever, and the end of such were all French-had decided to rushed Johna, hunting, the permit able man, with any step that might tend to close a duct would be the decisive batile pack up. They had a seat of lorries which would give hire the right to but Jubilant soldier avel-stained soldiers, and his' preala her only outlet, from the Black Sea, which cannot be escaped Only one standing by to take away their own aling the ferry and its freight on ous freight, drove his lorry..of the Germany is at all times an unplea- can ride it we want to rule, we machinery, but they suld they to whichever ship was due to sall ship at the English port and rattled sant; bed-follow" and her frontiers must arst, conquer Rusin.”.
couldn't spare one for me.”
immediately.
up the road to his Midland home.
can be taken.
In the meantime much propaganda
is being issued by Berlin and Rome
eight to ten months.'
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cors," ho. told me. So he hung dark," said Johns. in regard to the situation not only are now definitely too near to Rus- around the air-field until he found
Alr-marshol who In Greece; but also Turkey and Rus- sin for comfort both in Scandinavia an
flying Was sia. The latter country, through the which she now says must remain South in a specially chartered taxi- IT was ninety miles to Bordeaux, official Tass Agency, has had already under her protection "even after the plane.
on
nur" there hand in extend and affabel, never aitain on the contrary the tools bohind," he sold refice-Cory der ja Bordeaux - dashed the angut ap the old heaven. And so