The Hartford republican., 1916-09-22
SCEOssAL JUGGERNAUT SWEEPS
EVERYTHING IN ITS PATH
SAYS REPORT.
MACHINE KEPT SECRET
Workmen ynterned During Construc'
tion and Intruders Warm
to Keep Out.
(By Hall Caine.)

forts OF twenty millions of men on
all fronts to bring it to an end, which
has withstood all the physical forces
Of incalculable masses of munitions
as we'll as the economic strain of un-
paTalleled national debts and the
mighty pressure of the nomal sense
of the world, be terminated at last
by its own terrors?
The dispatch yesterday from Brit
ish headquarters says:
Our troops have won from 1000
to 5000 yards various places. In
this attack we employed for the first
time a new type of heavy armored
car"
What docs this mean? Does it
mean that this new type of heavy
armored car has produced the as
tonishing results described? If so,
what is this new and terrible weap-
on Of war?
For weeks past | have been hear
ing whispers of a new arm which
would shortly be launched on the
battlefield which would drive every
thing before it. News of it was a
secret not. to be revealed until the
day II came into action. Nobody was
to know where or how it was made
or vet what it is. The men who man
ufaetured it were bound by oath not
to say anything about it. To make
assurance doubly sure they were in
termed within a vast area whose
boundaries were guarded by armed
men every hundred yards. Once
within, they were never allowed out.
Notices were posted warning intrud-
ers they would be shot at sight.
Then l heard that the new weap-
on had already reached the scene of
operations I'M large numbers and that
vet greater numbers were to follow.
IF the enemy was to hear anything
about it at all they must hear now.
In a few days more it would be in
actor. The results which might be
expected would be stupendous.
IL was impossible not to be stirred
by the mystery that surrounded the
new arm aud by the confident faith of
those who knew of its irresistible
power 1t was a gigantic car, col
ossal juggernaut, a moving arsenal of
unimasinabie. driving force. Moth
ing could stand before it. 1t would
pass over trenches like fiat ground,
climb out of beds of rivers and walk
over houses as over anthills.
IN the inferno of its interior the
men Tho worked it, nearly nude,
would be safe from almost any force
known to military science, except
that of the unconquerable monster
they controlled. Such was the story
which spread during the past weeks
TO those who could be trusted to keep
the secret until the day came to re-
veal Il.
Has the secret been revealed in Sir
Douglas Haig's dispatch yesterday?
If SO we may perhaps look for still
greater, more mOmentOus results. If
what is said of the new armOred car
be true, il may prove to be the
mightest argument for a speedy ter
mination of the war that has yet
been heard of in this bloOdstained
continent am told the power of
this new juggernaut is such that If
il rolled up Broadway (which God
forbid aud was directed at the Flat
iron Building (Which also God for
bid) il would bring down and roll
out at the other side almost as rapid
ly as j tell the tale.
am also told if we had 5000 new
juggerrau!s they would end the war
in month. II sounds like a dream.
Some will surely say il sounds like
madness but few or none can be so
skeptical Of this tremendous story
as not at least to hope for the safe
" Oi humanity thu AuNuit NOAiu
peace, that please God it may be true.
War. the accursed has stalked over
the earth since the earliest days Of
man, feeding on its own entrails and
growing by what it has fed on.
II has withstood the battle cry of
religion, mortality and civilization
and derisiOn launched at II by COM
mon sense. II has even, by fright
ful irony OF deyilish fascination,
turned these adversaries into its apol-
Ogists and advocates. Win 1t not be
a divine triumph if the monster
should now destroy itself?
Some OF us have long been pray
ing for the cOnsummatiOn that war
by its own maiign Developments
might yet make war unthinkable. Is
this far Off event nearer than we
thought?
one is almost afaid to hope; al