File:Britannia tank in the Boston Post of Boston, Massachusetts on April 5, 1918.png

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British Tank “Britannia” On Way To Boston. This monster tank is due to arrive In Boston this morning and will travel to various sections of the city, including Bunker Hill. The big British tank, “Britannia,” , armed with Vickers machine guns and | manned by a crew consisting of Captain i Richard Haigh and seven men, all veterans of tank warfare, will arrive in Boston this morning to aid the British and Canadian recruiting mission iu securing volunteers for the British and Canadian armies, and to participate tomorrow in Boston’s big l.<ibcrty Loan parade. “Britannia” at 9 o’clock this morning will be taken from a flat car back of tho South Station and slowly moved NEW YORK, April 4.-Analysis of , towards Liberty Cottage in Boston Com- ^ candy purchased yesterday by a United , from there it ' «o States sailor in a Brooklyn confection-i ^tate Hou.se where it will be reviewea I ery store owned by Edward Waller, an, at 0 o'clock by Lieutenant-GoY. unnaturalized fiennan, showed that it son, coniinander of the Uepartineiii oi the Northeast, and Admiral Wood, In command of the Eastern naval district. It, will then move to Bunker Hill, being reviewed as it passes the Charlesiown navy yard by Captain William R. Rush, commandant of the yard, and his officers. Speeches will be made from the deck of the tank at Bunker Hill by Ijieu- tenant-Governor Coolldge, navy and army ofllcers. Miss Blanche Bates, star of “Getting Together,’’ a war play now being produced under the auspices o) the British and Canadian recruiting mission, and United States army and navy officials. The tank will go to T,ynn late this afternoon to take part in the big all- night Liberty lyoan drive to be held there tonight. It will return to Boston tomorrow morning and in the afternoon will take part in Boston’s big Liberty Loan parade. 'The tank will be followed on all its craw'ls through Boston and other places by a huge auto truck in which will he non-commissioned officers supplied with all the material necessary to enable them to sign up recruits for the British and Canadian armies. Volunteers will be permitted to hop in the truck at any point along the route of the parade.

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