New Britain herald., 1916-09-28

holes and across lots looking for it's pray like some prehistoric lizard. in course of time it found a German trench, but as it engaged the occu- pants with it's machine gun it ran out of gasoline.
 When the Germans found this strange creature, with it's steel hide impenetrable to bullets stalled, cur iosity and a desire for revenge was g fillip to their courage. They went after it with the avidity of prehistor- ic man, stalking a wounded mann" north whose bulk was fast in one of the alleys of the cave dwellers
 No such game was ever seen on this western front, marked as it has been by all kinds of bizarre fighting
 Try to "Burglarize' Tank.
 According to the accounts given by the British officers with veracious solemnity, while the "tank's'' machine guns blazed right and left some of the Germans managed to creep along the trenches under the forelegs and hind legs of the crouching beast. Then they swarmed over it, looking for an opening through which to strike at it's vitals. They fired their rifles into joints and bombed it all over, but to 6 y the inside of a battleship turret with a jimmy All the while the "tank's'' machine guns kept busy at the human targets in reach, while it's crew, chosen daredevils, concluded to stick until they starved or the Germans found the proper can-opener to get them out.
 Finally the British infantry in the rear, seeing the tank" in distress, re- fused to wait on any generals orders that they should remain at the ob- jective which they had gained. They were cut to save the impounded ''tank," and with a cheer they rushed the Germans and overwhelmed them When the crew heard the laughing and shouting in English they opened the door and called out: we are all right if you will only get us some more juice so that the old girl can have a guzzle of her proper drink and we can take the road again.
 So the infantry formed a line i'll front of the tank determined to de- fend her to the last man, while a runner was hurried back for can of gasoline The gasoline arrived safe ly and the beast, having taken a swallow, ambled back into reserve
 
 25O dead Germans, according to it's commander
 Taking of Thiepval.
 Another tank which did we'll in it's fight assisted in the taking of Thiepval. There was once a chateau in Thiepval The cellar is still there roofed by the remains of the dwelling, bricks, stone and mortar in a thick shell of pounded debris which pro- tected it from penetration by even nine and twelve inch high explosives Here the Germans waited, smoking their mild cigars and drinking soda water which was brought Up through shell-proof underground tunnels, while the ruins over their heads were belabored vainly by the British ar tillery. They had the sense of se- curity of an early Kansas settler when he went below and closed his cellar door during a cyclone. Of course they had a machine gun ready to welcome the British infantry instantly that the British bombardment stopped. When that gun began rattling Mr. Thomas Atkins took cover and considered ways and means of silencing it. ! His meditations were interrupted pby the appearance of a. tank which, with elephantine deliberation, lum bered across trenches and, dipping it's verte- bra aeted ponderosity in and out of the shell holes, made a quick finish of the cellar and it's occupants.
 The taking of Thiepval and the Zollern redoubt, which lies between it and Courcelette, was a wonderful business. Thiepval was held by the One Hundred and Eightieth German Regiment, which had been there for a long time. According to prisoners the defenders had forfeited the com l manding ridge with an amazing series of ramified tunnels and dugouts. They had dug into the chalky earth with beaver-like industry until they were safe under a shell fire which would have turned a fort like Maubeuge or Liege or any other of the pre-war | type into the jumbled grave of it's garrison. The men of the One Hun dred and Eightieth asked permission to remain in Thiepval, giving their word that it would never be taken from them, and the German army 1 command consented.
 :. Not only at this village but all along the ridge upon which hangs the whole Anglo-F'rench movement was the same maze of warrens where the GernanS HVed With all the com 1 forts of home. The One Hundred and Eightieth had cudbeled it's brains to make Thiepval the very last word | an this kind of defense. It was this sort of preparation which stopped the l British attack on July l. Then as l the British infantry charged after the artillery bombardment the Germans l popped out of their hiding places l with machine guns and swept the | lines of khaki with their deadly spray. Bit by bit since July 1 the British have worked their way forward. Yes l terday when they went after Thiep- val and the Hohenzollern redoubt, the l British soldiers, as one of the cap-