Tanks, 1914-1918; the log-book of a pioneer . The kind of ground our Tanks had to work on. Everywhere shell-pocked, 191C. (p. 95). Tanks in Vcti TANKS IN ACTION 105 We arrived in Paris and saw the French met General Mouret and General met the representatives of the two Frenchfirms, M. Deloulle and M. Brillie of Schneider,and Dr. Laurens Dutilh and Colonel Remailho ofSt. diamond. We visited the Schneider factoryat St. Ouen near Paris. It was very strange that at the Conferencebetween the English and French engineers atMarly, on the Tank ground there, it was dis-covered that
Tanks, 1914-1918; the log-book of a pioneer . The kind of ground our Tanks had to work on. Everywhere shell-pocked, 191C. (p. 95). Tanks in Vcti TANKS IN ACTION 105 We arrived in Paris and saw the French met General Mouret and General met the representatives of the two Frenchfirms, M. Deloulle and M. Brillie of Schneider,and Dr. Laurens Dutilh and Colonel Remailho ofSt. diamond. We visited the Schneider factoryat St. Ouen near Paris. It was very strange that at the Conferencebetween the English and French engineers atMarly, on the Tank ground there, it was dis-covered that few of the Frenchmen could talkEnglish and few of the English could talk French,but both could—up to a certain point—talkGerman, and it was by means of this languagethat they made each other understood. On September 26th, very early in the morning,we set out by car, an Anglo-French party ofthirty-five, for the Loop where the Tanks wereparked. At Amiens we lunched, and there I hadenormous difficulties with the gettingWhite Passes for the whole party. In the endwe reached the Loop, inspected the Tanks andsaw one of
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