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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Sep 26, 1940
Page
10
The article discusses World War I tank development and command decisions. It argues a late realization of tank effectiveness, compares strategic miscalculations to Tirpitz, and notes shortages of lorries aircraft and ships. It suggests an earlier, adequate Allied tank deployment might have altered 1918 events.
Reports detail a renewed German offensive along the Marne repelled by Allied forces near Villers Cotterets and Rheims. The engagement saw heavy bombardment, shattered German units, and Allied advances from the Flanders front as pressure shifted to defensive stands.
Fragmentary OCR describes tanks, German artillery and fog affecting attacks. Mentions brassy hate tanks, German billets, and hurried battalions resisting near the Apalites region with references to a prince and fugitive near a lane.
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