Cargo-Carrying tank
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Title (Dublin Core)
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Cargo-Carrying tank
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Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
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Title: Now comes the cargo-carrying tank
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Caption: A British tank on the western front being loaded at the base, some distance back of the line, for its journey to the tranches.
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extracted text (Extract Text)
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EXCEPT in great offensives or re-
treats such as have taken place
this spring, it is said on good author-
ity that more men are killed every night
in bringing supplies to the trenches than
by fighting. This follows from the fact
that the troops are fairly well
protected in the trenches
when under rifle or ma-
chine gun fire and in their
deep dugouts when the ar-
tillery is in action.
Supplies are brought up
as near as possible to the
front distributing points by
means of motor trucks and
horses and then carried
across the open fields or in
communication trenches by
men who have practically
no protection against shell splinters or
machine gun fire. The enemy knows the
roads by which supplies are brought up
because of the information secured by
his airplane observers. He plots every
yard of a transport road accurately on his
maps and then distributes
his artillery in such a man-
ner that it has the range
down to the last few feet.
Even though the roads are
generally protected by
cleverly camouflaged canvas
screens hung on poles,
trained observers in air-
planes can detect these sub-
terfuges and get sufficient
information to enable the
roads to be charted with
great precision.
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Contributor (Dublin Core)
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Joseph Brinker (writer)
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1918-07
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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58-60
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public domain
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Filippo Valle
Popular Science Monthly, v. 93, n. 1, 1918
