The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-09-25
GERMANS BELIEVED
THEM JUGGERNAUTS
immense Auto Forts Added to the
Offensive of the British
Army

London, Sept. 25.-Will war itself,
with has hitherto resisted the efforts
of twenty millions of men on ali
fronts to bring it to an end, which has
withstood all the physical forces of
incalculable masses of munitions as
well as the economic strain of unpar-
alleled national debts and the mighty
pressure of the normal sense of the
world be terminated at least last by
its own terrors?
A dispatch from British headquar-
ters said: "Our troops have advanced
from 1900 to 5000 yards at various
places. In this attack we employed
for the first time new type of heavy
armored car"
What does this mean? Does it mean
that this new type of heavy armored
car has produced the astonishing re-
suits described? If so, what is this
new and terrible weapon of war?
For weeks past / have been hearing
whispers of new arm which would
shortly be launched on the battlefields
which would drive everything before
it. News of it was a secret not to be
revealed until the day it came into ac-
ton. Nobody was to know where or
how it was made or yet what it was.
The men who manufactured it were
bound by oath not to say anything
about it. To make assurance doubly
sure they were interned within vast
area whose boundaries were guarded
by armed men every hundred yards.
Once within, they were never allowed
out. Notices posted at the entrances
warned intending intruders they
would be shot at sight.
Then I heard that the new weapon
had already reached the scene of
operations in large numbers, and that
yet greater numbers were to follow.
If the. enemy was TO hear anything
about it at all, they must hear now.
In few days more it would be in
action. The results which might be ex-
pected would be stupendous.
1t was impossible not to be stirred
by the mystery that surrounded the
new arm and by the confident faith
Of those who knew of its irresistible
power. 1t was gigantic car, a colos-
sal juggernaut, a moving arsenal of
driving force. Nothing
could stand before it. 1t would pass
,ver trenches like fiat ground, climb
put of beds of rivers and walk over
houses as over ant hills.
In the inferno of its interior the
men who worked it, nearly nude,
would be safe from almost any force
znown to military science, except that
If the unconquerable monster they
controlled. Such was the story whis-
,ered during the past weeks to those
Who could be trusted to keep the Sec
'et until the day came to reveal it.
The secret has now been revealed in
Sis Douglas Haig's dispatch and we
nay perhaps look for still greater,
more momentous results.
If what is said of the new armor-
ID car be true, it may prove to be
he mightiest argument for speedy
termination of the war that has yet
,een heard of in this bloodstained
continent.
l am told the power of this new
uggernaut is such that if it rolled up
Broadway (Which God forbid, and
vas directed at the FIatiron building
which also God forbid, it would
'ring down and roll out at the other
iide almost as rapidly as / tell the
ale.
| am also told that if we had three
thousand new juggernauts they would
nd the war in a month. 1t sounds
Ike dream. Some will surely say
t sounds like madness, but few or
lone can be so skeptical of this tre-
nendous story as not at least to hope
or the sake of humanity and future
world peace that, please God, it may
,c true.