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THERE is now little danger that the value of tanks will bo underrated by the civilian.. The triumphant and unparal- leled success of the German armoured forces has established clearly, in the public mind the supreme importance of this arm in conjunction with air force in land warfare.
THE
TANK
There is rather some danger of an exaggerated idea of the invin-
By Major-General P. C. $. HOBART, D.S.O., M.C. cibility of these machines. It is the
(Commander Tank Brigade, '1933-37: Director of Military Training, War Office 1937-38). purpose of this article to point out some of their weaknesses.
even if they do not stop them.. (d) Tanks are unable to depress track are sufficient to break it. The Moreover, broadly speaking, the their weapons sufficiently to shoot destruction of a bogle or even a The bulk of the armoured smaller the tank the poorer fisfat objects on the grounds close to bogle-tyre is apt to bring the track forces of Germany have been cross-country performance. The them. The lower down you are and off the sprocket and the tank to a organised and trained no largo light tank is quite unable to tackle the closer to the tank, the safer you standstill.
a field-bank, ditch or even are from its fire. and fast-moving formations of many
tanks accompanied by light ele-out hedge that is easily traversa-
by the bigger varieties.
been
(g) In Spain, it is suld, men hid- (e) In addition to apertures for Ing in a ditch were able to throw a ments of motor-cycllats and Boggy or waterlogged ground is vision, tanks must have large open-petrol-soaked blanket so that it be
Inga for alt-Infets for the engine, came entangled in the tank-track armoured cars, and followed by unfavourable to mechanised move-
Tho Germans have
These are usually guarded by ar- and to fire it, thun burning off the especially trained motorised in- ment.
ore usually bogia-tyres and cousing the tank to weather. The dry moured louvres, and lucky. In their fantry, but unhampered by conditions have made passable much contrived on the upper surfaces of shed his track.
It was also reported that in street- slower-moving arms. They were country that would have, been in the hull. commanded by men with ex-possible in wet weather, especially Burning liquids thrown upon these fighting other heroes had oven
the wheeled portions of the louvres tend to be sucked into the destroyed them with petrol... perience of and faith in the for tank, who were allowed freedom mer and even in Western Europe, lank on are, if in sufficient quan- the most lightly armoured portion. (b) The belly of a tank is usually: force. But, even in this dry sum-engine compartment and to set the of manoeuvre, and given wide their tanks kept to the roads as for tity. discretion in exploiting success. es possible. This procedure will be These formations were laun- forced on them more than ever in ched over terrain suitable for their movement, and, even
竇 . when less favourable and more
this island.
the Allied lines. We must EBAUTE
It is exposed to fire from the bank, and from behind when dropping
(f) The most vulnerable portion of a tank is the suspension: Le, the down the far side." track, bogles and sprockets, The NONE OF TIE ABOVE IN- fracture of a single track-pin breaks WOLVES THE USE OF SPECIAL the track and immobilises the tank. ANTI-TANK WEAPONS, NOR DO Truck-pina are weakened by strain | THEY BY ANY MEANS EXHAUST and by rocky or stony going. A THE POSSIBLE METHODS OPEN small mine or a few pounds of ex-TO THE INGENUITY OF STOUT-
TANKS are dependent on petrol. intersected country was reached, | The German armoured forma they were able to secure cross-tions were able to keep going on ings and continue their advance the fuel stocks they found behind plosive exploded in contact with HEARTED VOLUNTEERS, by the rapidity of their move-in good time that they are unable ment and by the wide deploy- to do this in England. We must ment which enabled their com- drastically reduce the number of manders to exploit immediately petrol-pumps, especially in isolated any weak spot discovered.
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IT is improbable that such conditions could be repented in this country.
positions, and take steps to make certain that no supplies can fail Into the enemy's hands, even if this ca~ talls surfe Inconvenience 10 our civilian motorists meanwhile.
CHA
When invasion takes place, small bodies of enemy tanks and motorised
will troops
probably kucceed In Unless a good port, with har-ro
pushing inland, perhaps to consider- hour facilities in working order, able distances. They can only make can be seized, it will hardly be great progress by keeping to roads, effective system of local possible for the invader to land With an
their advance can be road-blocks heavy or medium tanks in large made extremely hazardous. Various numbers. It may be possible to devices adopted in Spain and Fin- disembark some on beaches from land to deal with small numbers of specially constructed ships or tanks have been described. from flat-bottomed boats, but 眼睛
for the most part such vessels can carry only light or cruiser types.
THE preux "Apecial to the Telegraph" indicate news which is strictly copyright
used by the "longkong Telegraph" to under the provisions of the Telecommual- Calions Ordinance, 1938. Buch newa beat the 10dication "U" received in Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Actations, who re- serve all rights and forbid republication either wholly or in part without previous Arrangement,
Troubled Waters
The New York Tunes which is usually extremely well informed, recently declared that "the refusal of General Metaxus to renounce the British guarantee to Greece Is the first note of confidence that British have bad for a long time." The paper added-and it is worth quoting This unexpected defance
Light tanks can also be car ried by airplanes, but can be landed only from these on good airfields.
it in
There
C certala weaknesses common to all types:
(a) Tanks are rather blind unless the look-out has his head cut of the armour, in which ense he is vulner- Cable, especially fram bouses OT other rondside cover. When closed down, the vision of the tank crew is restricted and all-round outlook ja dimcall
(b) Tanks can only shoot in the unnecessary, therefore, to anticipate enemy tank attack in the direction in which their weapons are numbers used In Belgium and pointing. The larger the turret, the France.
slower the traverse. If an enemy tank comes along a road with its Watervoursta are tank obstacles, weapons trained ahead, the defender especially, if the banks and buttons behind randside cover should get a are muddy Streams of any depth free shot or two as it passes und stili can only be crossed by bridges or have time to take cover before the by the weakest of the Balkan States by special contrivances which must- turret can be traversed. signifies two things: the weight of ly require lime to bring up and Britlak si power in the Eastern | operate,
(e) All unks have apertures for Mediterranean and the intention of
gun-sights, etc. These A great part of England is par-vision, for Brital to maintain her position inf Heulurly
unsuitable for tank man- apertures are usually sensitive to that
area, which may turn out to
is generally close, much mall-arm Are. It may be possible be the
major battlefield of the war" cut up by ditch and bank, and full to block an enemy tank in such a While we would not venture
are to of brooks and other small obstacles lion that close and accurate Are prophesy
the future of the which slow down and delay tanks, run be brought to bear on It castern Mediterranean, nor would we dare say that the major battle" will be in that part of the world, there
19 every indication that the shadow of war is lowering percepti bly over the Eastern Mediterranean.
11
FUNNY SIDE UP
| Cage 1920 by Tahal Fochan Stṛužimtis, Ins
By Abner Dean
7.10
"Were you a good little boy while Daddy was away?”
FOREMAN
PORTRAIT OF A BRITISH
Germany seems to have succeeded When the French firm got HIS name is Melbourne Johns and he comes from
to some extent In persuading Ru-
Ru- delivery from America of cer-
mant into giving her Balkan neigh-tain important machine tools,
Pembrokeshire; a short, burly, square shoul-
By
bours a considerable portion of her and had difficulty in assembling dered man, with an immense head and jutting PATRICIA WARD
own territory. it in true that there
Is "many a slip 'twixt the cup and them, it was natural that "Mel"
the lip, and the Hunguro-Rumanian Johns should be sent across the jaw, uncannily like a bulldog.
But Ho in foreman in an armament factory "somewhere in the negotiations over Transylvania have Channel to advise, for in the two Midlands"; a factory which until recently was subsidiary to a
so far not run too smoothly. IL 19 stated in this connection that the
countries there are few men!
kum to the coast of France.
while the
From under the
motor-
me.
the
to
the Consul was not there. There was an attache, stiff with red tape and responsibility, who guar- anteed John's personal passage Rumanian delegation is headed by with a greater knowledge of all larger one in South-west France, the ex-Premier,
"regretted" about nose of M. Valerian Pop. types of machinery.
the So off he went into the highways home, but who recently declared himself
In the middle "Come back when the Job's done," enemy,
of all the und byways behind the factory to machines— and chaos of the Ger- look for help. And drawn up by strongly against any attempt either they said, as they packed him inte confusion
It was then that this stocky little "to deliver
the up
Rumanians in the R.A.F. airplane that was to fly man advance through France, this the alde of the road he found an man went off the handle. Like the Transylvania to foreign domination
British workman had Army He sturdy
torry manned by four ex-bull-dog
resembles, he tore at or impair the political unity of Ru- reached his destination after a fur- snatched his precious tools and hausted Tommies.
that official. He ranted and he manta'. The fact that a man of
safely home. That ther flight and there he remained brought them this callbre has been chosen by the for several weeks. Then suddenly was
They were lost. They had been roared, he shouted and he bullied. "the job" he did: a job ten driving south and further south for **T+ worries me sometimes, Rumunian Government take part
ilitler burst through the Allied ram- times the size of the one he was the better part of a week, without remember the names I called that In the humillating discussion of sur-
parts, Great armies rolled back in sent out to do, though he doesn't sleep, without food for hours at a man," he told me. "But it did the render of territory, seems to indicate headlong retreat upon Paris and be see it that way.
time, trying unsuccessfully to rejoin trick, all right." that the negotiations may not run yor
yond.
A sea of refugees engulfed **1 only did what anyone else the unit 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 1 had a lot of separated. portance at this time, not so speedily humans, horses,
given shipping-space for his larry, cattle, and awa-luck," he'll tell you in real 'embar- us he would wish.
chines. Into this dark tide disap- russment.
"That lorry was just what I sailing permits for his four soldiers Observers are of the opinion that peared "Mel" Johns.
But his luck was the result of needed for my machines," Johns told and himself, and a guide to take Mussolini's trade against Greece on
*So I talked the boys
him to the quayside and a ship. into The last British behalf of Albania, who, of herself, England. The fast refugees
troops reached enterprise, and the story of those coming along with me. They didn't There he and his tireless Tommles
from salvaged machines is, as an illus- has no particular plaint, enables him to bluster" and
Cluster Bordeaux were brought off. Then tration of individual resourcefulness much want to-thought their duty slung the lorry aboard and jumped demand concessions which, should home were reading the fearful and
people of hla Midland and courage, in the nature of a saga, was to go on looking for their unit, after it as the Brst Nazi airplanes
But I explained how important it appeared over the town they not succeed, can be withdrawn agonising story of the final evacua-
*
was to get those machines back without loss of face as such tirades tion from Europe, tin Army lorry
WHEN the R.A.F. first landed home so we could make more guns
I took them three days and and accusations leave him free to mimbed into the factory yard. In him in France he was still some to beat the Jerries with. And 80 declare Albania as "satisfied", should the driver's cab sat "Mel" Johns
nights to reach port on the West clrcumstances advocate such a stop. Loaded
Coast of England. The ship was way from his factory. News from they agreed to help.” on that lorry were the the
They drove back to the factory, full of refugees; mostly women and North was bad, and Mussoli la waiting for his cue four machines which he had gone transport
because the those four exhausted Tommies and children... from Berlin, who, in turn, is wall-
was worse WEC blocked by endless the determined foreman. Between ing for the settlement of the Hun-out to Inspect; each the size of a reas
baby grand plano, cach worth £4,000, streams of population in flight.. them they dismantled the machines There were not enough life-belts garian-Rumanian territorial ques all invaluable in the manufacturing
to round, but there were a lot of Johns couldn't get
*because flons before any more decisive step of arms, and all, irreplaceable under I can't speak French and anyway:
and piled them on the lorry. a. lift,
"Now drive like hell to Bordeaux civilians' cars on board. So. Johns can be taken.
eight to ten months. In
there wasn't room in any of the We've got to get there before It's went down to the hold and removed meantime much propagunda
the tyres from every car, blew up Is being issued by Berlin and Rome
cars," he told me, So he hung dark," said Johns.
the inner tubes and handed them to In regard to the situation not only are now definitely too near to Rus. around the air-field until he found.
everyone who had not got a life-belt. in Greece, but also Turkey and Russia for comfort both in Scandinavia en Air-marshal who
Then he found a British officer in IT was ninety miles to Bordeaux, official Tass Agency, has had already under her protection "even after the
they stopped for nothing on the charge of a quantity of valuables.
"He didn't tell me what they were, Red Red to deny most emphatically the ru- war" and in the Balkans, But Ger-
rod tabs means way. Johns sat in front with his nours spread from sources domin-mau intrigue must be warily managed nothing to "Mel" Johns. So after hand on the driver's ann, shaking and I didn't like to nak, he ex- fall plained. “But rumour went that it when he threatened to him he said I could asleep over the wheel, sted by her Axis partners, that she so as not to create difficulties with her a bit of talking,
was radium, plus the Belgian Crown has made domanda. on Turkey in powerful neighbour. Russia is, how come too." regard to the
deux Jewels, sold to be worth 25 millions, Dardanelles.
Three miles outside Bordeaux we and the question arose as to how This ever, astute enough to know where Big man and little man flew off
met some French going out that such demands will she stands. She cannot have not be made should she, and it ex-gotter Hitler's own words to for- together, and that's how Johns got with soungto stop the Germany, he they could be saved if the ship got
They bedlent to do so, but quite
Rauschning which he
were only three sunk reported in he was halided a telegram from the househ "Hider Speaks”.
English firm telling him to return hours behind us, but that was the 'So I thought of a raft, and we made one from the planks that were by either Germany or Italy into any "There
reason Whyat onte in view of the gravity of first time we realised I position before she is ready for it shouldn't make a pact with Russia the news,
And so his resolve to get the ma-
around the The situation is a delicate one.
new I could get back all right chilies away was strengthened by loaded the valuables, old, We if that will improve my position
the lower deck. It was a lovely Germany favours Russia's embroli- it will depend on Poland when this in one of the RAF airplanes. But the need for haste..
to the In this way we it seemed a terrible pity to leave Up to
of ment with Turkey which would
raft-would have floated
nicely portals give happens.
happenedo her a frear band in extending her shall never attain what is neces- the tools behind," he said refer Consulate in Bordeaux dashed, the anything had own sphere of inquence, and it sary for us
On the contrary, tively;
Army lorry
But nothing did happen. And so would further entarige Great Bri- we should then distrust each other The men at the factory they Up the stairs to the Consul's room his journey ended, and this indomit tain, but Russia could not tolerate more than ever, and the end of such were all French and decided to rushed Johns hunting the permit able
his travel-stained any step that might tend to close in pact, would be the decisive battle pack up: They had a fleet of lorries when would give him the right to but jubilant soldiers, and his preci- her only outlet from the Black Sea. which cannot be escaped. Only one standing by to take away their own sling the lorry and its freight, on our freight, drove his lorry of the Germany is at all times an unplea- can rule. If we want to rule, we machinery, but they said they to whichever ship was due to sail ship: at the English port; and raffled sant bed-fellow, and her frontiers must first conquer, Busala,” aliul couldn't sparc, one for me,
immediately...
up the road to his Midland home.”
the
sia. The latter country, through the which she now says must remain South..
Russia is not anxious to be
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and
3.
but
the British