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

TOT far from the Royal Armoured Corps

extinct saurians came pounding along the lune,

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

As I waited, the turret lid of the first tank opened and a face op- peared-a mild face wearing spec- tacles,

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 any 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 slithered down the armour plate to the ground, where they became involved in a technical discussion with a pair of extremely bright eyes seen through- a steel slit in the monster's belly,

A Mixed Bag

Falling into convertalion with them, I learned that eight weeks previously they had all been civi itans.

Mild Face had been an accoun- tant; Yorkshire Face had been a railway booking-clerk near Leeds; and Ordinary Face had been 红 solicitor.

usked what Bright Eyes had been, and they suld he had been

bookmaker's clerk.

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

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

war

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

It was also typical of modern

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, and himself In command of

of greater

destructive power than any commanded by Arthur and all his knights.

Perhaps the end of the world will come some day when a man like Mild Face pulls over a lever and blows up the planet...

With this depressing reflection, 1 said good-bye to them and went on to the Royal Armoured Corps training centre to which they, and many others like them, belonged. 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 vakt training centres where hundreds and thousands of recruits are put through

maching and sausage

mado

Into soldiers is quickly as possible. ;

Having completed their cours

course, the men leave the training centres and join the Field Army; and, as they march out at one end full et wisdorn, the long queue from civil life continues to enter a

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Among the roost interesting of Balliera gigantic schools are the train- Ing control of the Royal Armoured

the

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 tankt gunners, signallers, and forth. torin.

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The Royal Armoured Corps is the name now given to all tank units of the Army. These are the Royal Tank Regiment (which used 10 be the Tank Corps) and the mechanised cavalry and yeomanry. I passed the gates I found in a town of tanks.

-When

mhole 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 guns gilding along with smoothly lifting or falling.

How They Train

The roads shook to the advance- of the big tanks: the cruisers sulled along with the dignity of warships. while now and then whippet would suggest by its agility that under the hand of an old troop ser- gcant it might take a five-barred gate in passing.

In the orderly room they showed me the syllabus of training; and I was suitably impressed. The brain power of the nation must have in- ereased enormously in recent years it men can really take in all they are supposed to take in during the process of becoming soldiers.

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

Ife liked 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 inspiring. Then he spoke of his recruits as of the earth; If they were the cream of and I thought how astonished they would be, could they hear him, be- cause he was not the kind of man, I judged, who went round kissing them good-night or placing bou- quets in the huts.

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

» 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- aured Corps know as much about smashing tactics as anybody."

I was told howmen - arrive straight from civil lite ond aro given an intelligence, and pay chology test to decide whether they are best stted to be gunners or drivers.

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

two- Then the drivers weeks' course in gurmery, and the gunners do a two-weeks, course In driving. At the end of these six- teen works they go out to their units.

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

In Quick Motion

Walking round the depot, I had a confusing impression of men [committed to a life of bewildering ;

technicallly)

The old Army, with its rifles, machine-guns, Mills grenades, en- trenching tools, barbed wire and perpetual flat feet, was child's piny compared with this terrifying

into mechanics. plunge

Yet, oddly enough, the men of to-day take to this as ducks

water.

to

Having no mechanical sym- pathies whatsoever, I looked at them in reverence and admiration. To love tunk is surely the apex of all mechanical passion.

But when I entered the gunnery school, I came

fascinating Into л world. The art of hitting some- thing with a two-pounder gun from a tunk in motion is a fine art; and the way men are taught to do this is

and ingenious. picturesque In the first shed 1 saw a row.of by skeleton

gun-turrets controlled electricity, so that they revolve and oscillate and do all the things that

turrets do in rough country. The gunners, sitting in there mechanical branches, had to align their sights on a landscape target and keep them there by controll- turret and Ing the direction of

guns.

In

Iden

an adjacent shed the sare was carried a step further. Here was a splendid sand table, the size of a large roum. It con- tained model houses, villages, trees, which small model roads, along

and

tanks

and cars were in movement. Facing the model landscape,

were more skeleton turrets and guns. Each gua had. Atted to it 22 rifle so devised that to fire it

at the target was equivalent to the Aring 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 monhole, I sank into the steel skeleton ke a sardine Into Its tin.

Gazing through the sights, 1 zaw the landscape come suddenly to life. Miraculously, the little red houses were real houses, the sand hills were real, the roads were real and most realisile of all was the 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 asia-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.

the see with astonishment little building rise into the air and fall on its side.

At that proud moment I decided Yo give up tank gunnery, I won- dered afterwards whether the ser- geant had been a bit gentle with the control leveri

Nearly all the men I spoke to at this den

'depot Wore either, ex-school teachers or railwaymen 1 was told that an unusually high propor tion had turned

up in a recent "Intake" call-up.

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And in four months time they will out Info: the Army to cons

go tinue to learn, and to put into prac- tice, the training of sixtorn gruell- ing weeks..

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