"You mean the tanks?"
"Yes."
"I'd like to see a tank in action," said Horace, eagerly. "But I suppose we won't have them, here."
Courtesy of "L'Illustration."
The Approach of Doom.
British tank, first appearing at Flers (September 15, 1916) which drove the German Army into a panic of unreasoning terror.
"We shall," the veteran replied, "and soon. We shall be compelled to use them. The night before last, the Germans started using liquid fire on our lines. That's a wicked thing, too. From what I hear, it is a mixture of gasoline, paraffine and tar, forced out by compressed nitrogen and ignited at the point of a long tube. It throws a jet of fire twenty or even thirty yards.[24] It burns a man to a crisp where he stands. No gas-mask will stop that."
"And the tanks don't mind it?"