(C THE ARMORED 'TANK" USED BY THE BRITISH ON THE SOMME

This photograph, which was, it is stated, taken recently on the battlefield of the Somme, presents an interesting view of the monster armored tractor which has
created a sensation in military circles. The occupants of the "tank" are invisible; under the protection of steel armor they can send from each side of the car a
stream of bullets along the trenches that they cross-that is, they can enfilade the trenches. Four weeks ago The Outlook printed a picture of a tractor of this
so-called "caterpillar " type, but smaller. The revolving bands or belts serve as a movable pavement or endless track on which the wheels (in this case inclosed
in armor) run. These bands enable the "tank" or "Willie" (as the soldiers at the front call it) to cross shell holes, ditches, wire entanglements, depressions in
the ground, shallow streams, and even trenches. In a despatch from the front an Associated Press correspondent says that the use of these "tanks " has saved twenty
thousand men. Tractors of this type, according to the "Scientific American," have been used in clearing the basin of the Ashokan Reservoir in New York and in
reclaiming the Everglades, overriding masses of tangled branches and uprooting trees. Each belt can be operated separately, and thus the tractor can be turned
within its own length. The accounts of what these "tanks" have accomplished at the front in Europe are not therefore inherently incredible