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By Lichty OUR GREAT NEW ARMY

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- SHANGHAI, Apr, 2 (UP).-Chin-thorities to-day detained two ose terrorists last night bombed the Lufthansa planes at the acro- pro-Chungking Chinese vernacular drome and shortly thereafter Ta Chung News Agency" and sor-took into custody Ernst Kreft, *pusly lajured, ono employes, ~. Manager of the Kosmoshapag. The agency which is located on Shipping Lines and Ernat Elfers, Shonghal's "newspaper row, Avenue Manager of Lufthansa. Edward VII, Waa not seriously Police officers have occupied the damaged.

Lufthansa offices at the aerodrome.

"ACTION!"—And the crews race to their tanks.

TOT far from the Royal Armoured Corps extinct saurians came pounding along the lane.

NoTraining Regiment, two big tanks like

I gingerly edged the car into the side of the lane and stopped; but the tanks, with the obstinate obtuseness of largo animals, decided to stop too, so that we remained wedged wheel to track.

As I waited, the turret lid-of the Arst tank opened and a face ap-. peared a mild face wearing spec- Lucles.

It was a surprising apparition from such a manhole. One might

have

expected a savage face, a tough face, but not a face like that. It was as if one had' opened the Wooden Horse of Troy to find a 'curate inside it..

The face was followed by another, but different type of face; a face made in Yorkshire, if I am DAY judge of faces; and by yet a third face of the kind I have seen all my life in smoking-carriages at Lon- don Bridge.

The owners of these faces heaved themselves up, and shithered down the armour plate to the ground, where they became involved in a technical discussion with a pair of extremely bright eyes seen through 'steol sit in the monster's belly.

A Mixed Bag

Falling into conversation with *them, I learned that eight weeks previously they had all been civi- lians.

Mild Face had been an accoun- tant; Yorkshire Face had been a rallway booking-clerk near Leeds; and Ordinary Face had been # solicitor,

I asked what Bright Eyes hd been, and they said he had been

n bookmaker's clerit.

I reflected that, although they had been in the Army for only eight weeks, it had already laid its unmistakable hand on them.

Perhaps to a critical, sergeant- major they might still have seem- ed depressingly civilian, but to their own friends I am sure they must have appeared vastly differ- ent from the men who left home eight weeks ago.

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It was, I thought, Typical modern war that Mild Face should have been the gunner. That quick pccountant's brain could be trusted to pump out two-pounder shells with the accuracy of Du amal audit.

It was also typical of modern war that a man whose greatest previous violence may have been the chasing of tropical fish round a home aquarium should, In the twinkling of an eye, find himsel In command of greater destructive power than any commanded by Arthur and all his knights.

Perhaps the end of the world will come some day when man ike Mild Face pulls over a lever

and blows up the plan reflection, I

With this depressing sald good-bye to them and went on the Royal Armoured Corps training centre to which they, and many others like them, belonged."

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In Tank Town

I suppose most people know that the Army, to-day consists of the Field Army, which is a trained Army, formed into divisions and corps, and a great number of vast training centres where hundreds and thousands of recruits are put through a sausage m machine and

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soldiers as quickly completed their course, men leave the training centres and join the Field Army; and, as they march out at one end full of life continues, to enter at the other wisdom, the long queue from civil”

*** Among the most interesting of these gigantic schools are the train "Ing"centres of the Royal Armoured

The Men In The TANKS

by H. V. Morton

Corps, where men like those. I had met in the lane are taken from a thousand civilian, occupations and taught how to drive tanks, how to look after them, how to become tank gunners, signallers, and so forth.

The Royal Armoured Corps is the name now given to all tank units of the Army. These are the Royal Tank Regiment (which used to be the Tank Corps) and the mechanised cavalry

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yeomanry. When I passed the mates I found myself in a town of tanks.

Whole ranges of workshops were devoted to them. In Immense stables these sinister brutes were being groomed by young men in black berets.

Everywhere I looked I saw them

their gliding along with

guns smoothly lifting or falling.

How They Train

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The roads shook to the advance of the big tanks; the cruis:rs Balled along with the dignity of warships, whippet while now and then would suggest by its agility that under the hand of an old troop ser- geant it might take a ve-barred fatoom they showed

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me the syllabus of training, and. I was suitably impressed. The brain. power of the nation must have in- creased enormously, in recent years if men can really take in all they are supposed to talce in during the process of becoming soldiers.

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The Commandant, an ex-cavalry offlcer, spoke to me about tanks, tank crews, and tank Locties as if the was nothing else in there Army.

Heiked his tanks in big, power- ful masses. That's the way to use tanks. Don't be afraid of them! The steel walls of England! He was very aspiring. Then he spoke of his recruits as If they were the cream of the earth; and I thought how astonished they would be, could they hear him, be- cause he was not the kind of men,

judged, who went round kissing them good-night or placing bou➡ -qucts in the huts.

"The men coming into the Royal Armoured Corps to-day are a won- dertul crowd," he eat, "and we're proud to have them and to train,

them.

""Although" they've got varied backgrounds, they are all alike in one thing: they long to smash the enemy; and we in the Royal Arm- oured Corps know no much about smashing tactles as anybody."

told how men arrive straight from civil life and are given an Intelligence and pay- chology, test to deeldo whether they are best filled to be gunners. or drivers.

was

Having decided this, they all have à six-weeks' course in general military training, followed by a two-months' courte of gunnery, for those selected as gunners, and in driving, for those selected as drivers.

Then the drivers do a. two- weeks course in gummery, and the gunners do a two-weeks course in

The old Army, with its rifles, machine-guns, Mils grenades, en- trenching tools, barbed wire and perpetual flat feet, was child's play compared with this terrifying plunge into mechanics.

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at pathies whatsoever, I looked them in reverence and admiration. To love a tank is surely the apex of all mechanical passion.

But when I entered the gunnery

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came into a school,

fascinating world. The art of hitting some- thing with two-pounder gun from

tank in motion is o fine art; and the way men are taught to do this is picturesque and Ingenious,

In the Arst shed I saw a row of skeleton gun-turrets contr

controlled by electricity.

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un turrets do in rough country. gun turre

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The gunners, sitting mechanical bronchos, had to align their sights on a landscape farget and keep then there by controll- ing the direction of turret guns.

and

same

In an adjacent shed the idea was currled a step further, Here was a splendid sand table, the size of a large room. It' con- tained model houses, villages, trees, and roads, along which small model tanks and cars were in movement. ing the model landscape, Facing

and were more skeleton turrets guns. Each gun had filted to it a.22 rifle so devised that to fire it' at the larget was equivalent to the Biring of a two-pounder gun in real country,

On The Target

I was asked if I would like to try a shot, and, after a brief strug- gle with the manhole, I sank into the steel skeleton like a sardine into tin,

Gazing through the sights, I saw the landscape come suddenly to life. Miraculously, the idle ted houses were real houses, the sand hiils were real, the roads were real --and most renlistic of all was the slow, rhythmic swaying of the turret itself, which began as soon as the Instructor flung over the lever.

My first shots went wide, but it was interesting to see through the periscope how the sand spat up where the bullet had hit it, just G9 If a shell had bust there.

At last I had the target-a plea- sant red house-well on the hair-

line, and I pressed the trigger, to see with astonishment the little building rise into the air and fall on its side.

At that proud moment I decided to give up tank gunnery. I won- dered afterwards whether the ser- geant had been a bit gentle with the control lever!

Nearly all the men I spoke to at this depot were either ex-school teachers or railwaymen. I was luld that an unusually high propor- tlon had turned up in a recent "Intake" or call-up,

"And we like them," said an in- driving. At the end of theso six-structor. "They're keen and

quick"

teen weeks they go but to their units,

"Accountants and solicitors make good gunners, I was told,

and REFRES In Quick Motion Walking round the depot, I had. a confusing - Impression of men commitin to a life of bewildering technicality,

And in four months time they will go out into the Army to con- tinue to learn, and to put into prac- tice the training of sixteen gruell ing weeks. H

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