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Title: The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting), 1851-1919, comp
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, London, Funk & Wagnalls Company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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was a far more mobile machine, armed with only fourmachine-guns, and especially intended to act as an auxiliaryto infantry. Its armor permitted the machine-guns in it tobe brought up safely to quite close ranges, and so alloweda powerful fire to be brought to bear. It afforded completeprotection against shrapnel bullets, rifle-fire, and shell-splinters. Only a direct hit from a field-gun high-explosiveshell could put it out of action, chances so few in numberthat they could be neglected. The whippet was far morespeedy than the ordinary tank. )\Iany stories were told of itschasing individuals, and generally behaving like a whippet-dog after a rabbit. The ordinary tank, known officially asthe heavy, consisted of male and female, differingonly in armament. The male was armed with two 6pounder Hotchkiss guns and four machine-guns; the fe-male had only six machine-guns. German strategy had conceived that, once a gap between ^ 6 Gerald Campbell in a cable dispatch to The Sun (New York). 32
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AMIENS CATHEDRAL LUDENDORFFS COLOSSAL DRIVE IN THE WEST the British and the French was opened, the advance of thevictors would be so rapid that there never could be a reunionbetween the two ends of the Allied armies. When this re-union did occur at Montdidier on March 27, the only chanceremaining: of immediate and complete German victory wasto break down the grip of the two armies. This explainedthe severe fighting from Montdidier north to Albert, but asthe grip held fast there was no further considerable -Germanpush westward. To effect and hold this reunion was themain purpose of Allied strategy. The Germans had ad-vanced so far and so fast, out-running their heavy guns andmunitions, that they were unable to break the line, thin thoit was, which held the two ends of the Allied forces to-gether. They tried this incessantly, but only with localsuccesses, and, meantime, the. French reserves continued toflow up and the line of the Allies at the danger-point grewthicker and stronger. The

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