Country-Side as Modern "Cavalry" in Nazi War Paris, May 24.
ERMAN Blitzkreig columns which smashed their way through the Allied armies to the English Channel this week were being aided today by armaments of the future and of the historic past, French military circles disclosed today. The weapons of the future, the newest and most terrible of all ultra-modern war machines, are the German flame-throwing tanks, designed to destroy and to kill efficiently if not painlessly.
Sharing the dangerous role of piercing the Allied lines with these new monsters of destruction are German motor-cycle troops] armed like warriors of medieval times—in steel visors and breastplates modelled after the armour worn by the knights of the] Middle Ages. The Germans threw these strangely combined forces into the death struggle on the Western Front yesterday in an effort] to send aid to the sorely battered German divisions whose sprint to the English Channel was reported by the French to have been slowed up last night.
Refueling dimeulties, the fatigue of men and motors, and the alleged loss of more than 1400. tanks, armoured Gare and other light motorized units fn'ten days of shattering battle were said' to. have slowed up the German Sonne fame-throwers, which are de~ signed for the wholesale destruction of towns and villages, as well og for frontal attacks on fortified lines. and carements, represent. the. last word the imagination of military engin-teers who try 10 keep parallel in the face between the increased citing power and. the increased resistance ower of modern weapons.
Many French military experts agreed here lest night that material ihas surpassed tactics in the present War and that. armies are. obliged overcome the tremendous advance the engineers have given to atiackiog tines in the way? Of new equipment
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.