HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1922-09-21, Page 3CAPTAIN SAYS HE
INVENTED TANK
RUN DOWN PEOPLE
WEAK AND NERVOUS
ONE OF FEW WEAPONS
DEVELOPED IN WAR.
British Officer Declares He
Worked Out Plan Under Di
rection of Lord Kitchener.
on Janu-
Post has
for Lord
One of the few really new weapons
which the late war developed was the
tank. Credit for this invention has
been claimed in many quarters—not- ■
ably for Winston Churchill, now Colo- i
nial Secretary, who was said to have
submitted it to Mr. Asquith
ary 5, 1915.
Now the London Morning
come forth with a claim
Kitchener and a Captain Bentley, un
der whose joint auspices, the news
paper asserts, the first tank was pro
duced. The controversy has come to
light again through the inability of
Captain Bentley to obtain from the
Tanks Award Committee or the War
Office any reward or compensation for
his work.
The real story of the genesis of the
tank, according to The Morning Post,
is’ this:
On October 18, 1914, Captain Bent
ley had just returned to England from
abroad to offer himself for war ser
vice. The next day he received a
telephone call from General Fitzgerald,
a military secretary to Lord Kitchen
er, directing him to report at the War
Office in Whitehall. When he arrived
there he was taken to Lord Kitchener,
under whom he served in South Africa
and to whom he was well known.
Kitchener, the story runs, greeted
him as follows1:
‘Down stairs, in the quadrangle,
there’s an armored car Woolwich has
made for me. It’s the result of thie
united brains of the army and navy
experts,
fighting
France,
and tell
Captain Bentley and Colonel Fitz
gerald inspected the car for about five
miuutes and then returned.
“Well?” Kitchener asked.
“It’s no good for your purpose,” Cap
tain Bentley said. “You can’t take it
off a road.”
Bentley Received Order.
“Exactly,” said Lord Kitchener.
‘‘My own opinion. Now, can you de
sign me one of the right type? It’s
urgent. Let me have it to-morrow.”
Captain Bentley, it might be men
tioned, was one of the pioneers of
motor transport. He had driven auto
mobiles in sandy wastes, and had de
voted considerable time to the attempt
to develop types of motor vehicles
suitable to rough and virgin country.
He went home to work out the idea of
the caterpillar tractor as it would be
applied to an armored car. The next
morning Dis specifications, together
with a covering letter, were in Kitch
ener’s hands. Colonel Fitzgerald ac
knowledged by telegram receipt of
Captain Bentley’s drawings, and the
telegram is still in the possession of
the latter.
On the evening of October 22, Cap
tain Bentley went to Lord Kitchener’s
■iouse in Carlton Gardens. At the end
of three hours the two men, according
to Captain Bentley, had agreed upon
the following basic principles of the
tank (nowhere in the present contro
versy is there any hint as to how
name “tank” was first applied):
1. Front wheels not to be used for
steering.
2. Caterpillar trick to be carried '
through car.
3. Twin engines,
each track for steering.
4. Armoring of body to suit gun
positions.
At the close of the interview, Cap
tain Bentley mentioned that he pro
posed to go at once to the Patent Of
fice and register his design.
“Wait,” Lord Kitchener said. “Are
you satisfied to leave this in my
hands? I’ll look after you.”
Found Kitchener Dead on Return.
Captain Bentley agreed. The next
week, however, he left for service in
Russia. Upon his return to England,
he was almost immediately recommis
sioned and sent to German East Africa
with the Mechanical Transport Ser
vice. Here he was wounded, finally
returning to England in 1917.
Until this time he did not know that
the invention, which! by then was
known as the ‘tank,” had ever been
utilized. What he did know, however,
was that Lord Kitchener had been
drowned in June, 1916, and could not
give his version of the tank’s origin.
Desirous of knowing the official
view of the matter, Captain Bentley
had a question asked in Parliament.
The answer gave the credit for the in
vention of the tank to Winston
Churchill, January 5,' 1915, a date
which, if Captain Bentley’s claim be
verified, was about two and a half
months after the Kitchener interview.
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Caller—‘‘Is Miss Jones in?”
Servant—“No, madam.”
Caller (surprised)—“Where is she?”
Servant—“Don’t you know, ma’am?
Miss Jones is going to be married, and
she goes
noon to
science.”
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which they’ve begun in
Go down, have a look at it
me what you think of it.”
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Before Dr. Graham Bell, the invent
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of Beinn Bhreagh, in Nova Scotia.
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General Colley, on the summit of Ma-
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surprised by Boers and almost annihi
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bearing'' the simple words, “Here Col
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buried on the top of one of the foot
hills of the Rocky Mountains. He
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to the shack where he spent many
years of his life.
Cecil Rhodes, the founder of Rho
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South Africa called Matoppo. It is
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used to climb and dream of the future
of the vast country spread at his feet,
and that even then he determined that
that should be his burial place.
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is that of Robert Louis Stephenson in
Samoa, where he went in search of
health. It was his wish to be buried
on the hill-top close to his house, and
hither his remains were carried by his
beloved Samoans. He also wrote his
own epitaph, which is certainly one of
the most beautiful ever penned:
“Under the wide and starry sky dig
the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die, and I
laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you ’grave for me:
lies where he longed
sour
and
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The British Empire and
Forestry.
is not my intention today to
alarmist statements or quote
figures. Without overstating
case one can say, without fear
here he
to be.
Home is the
sea, and
hill.”
sailor, home from the
the hunter from the
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many malls do you have here a
An
asked
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The contagion of uncleanness at
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other disease. Christ is the great
Physician.
Surnames and Their Origin
thds the elision of the “i” readily
yielded the pronunciation “Taft.”
“It
make
panic
one’s
of contradiction, that the world’s tim
ber situation gives grave reason for
thought and enquiry We read in the
report of a recent American commis
sion that timber is being cut at three
times the rate of growth. We know
that several exporting countries admit
that they have over-estimated their
forest resources. Whole groups of
countries have been shut out of the
timber trade by revolutions dynastic
changes, and the rise and fall in the
value of exchange. Even if we do not
accept the idea of a world timber
famine, we must admit that never was
there a time before in which the Em
pire depended more on its own efforts
for its supply of timber; nor has there
ever been a time more favorable than
the present for urging the examina
tion of our Empire timber resources.
—Lord Lovat at British Empire For
estry Conference.
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A bedtime tole for kids,
The daily news, a lecture on
The life of annelid's.
hit of a
little of
develop-
I
TAFT.
Variation—Taff.
Racial Origin—Welsh.
Source—A given name.
The origin of the family name of
Taft and the less widely known form
of Taff is likely to prove a
mystery to those who know
Welsh names.
Both of these forms are
ments of Welsh) origin, though from a
name which is nearly as old as the Old
Testament.
If you trace these names back to
their earlier usage among the Welsh
you will find that they were preceded
by the usual “ap,” signifying “son of,”
a prefix which, with the change of the
descriptive phrase into the hereditary
family name, has disappeared in mod
ern times except where it has been in
corporated as part of the name. “Ap-
Howell,” of course, easily became
“Powell,” but “Ap Taft” did not amal
gamate so earily, and the course of
least resistance was just to drop the
prefix.
“Taft” or “Taff” among the Welsh*
was merely a form of the given name
cf David. You can readily see that a
slight change in the sound of the con
sonants in this name would give you
one controlling i “Tafit.” (The long “a” in English is
a modern development.”) And from
the
to the college every after
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In Time of the Young Moon. Wftole System
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I wandered up the river road as far
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A lonely rooftree that was gray with
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And lightless windows that had lost
their soul.
Behind, the ascending mountain slope
was walled
With deepening umber and dark emer
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And the deep slumberous river pool be
tween
back the scene, reduplicate in
green.
Gave
Only
With)
Only
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at feud
the pervasive sense of solitude,
a white moth fluttering; naught
of stress
To strain the perfect peace and pen
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And not a shred of cloud above to mar
The beauty of the moon and single
star.
—Clinton Scollard.
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KIRKPATRICK
Variations—Kirkwood, Kirkland, Kirt
land, Kirkaldy, Kirkby, Kirkley.
Racial Origin—English.
Source—Localities.
Here is a group of family names
which are variations of one another in
the sense that their sources are simi
lar, though not exactly the same.
As has been explained in previous
articles the word “kirk” is the same
word as ‘‘church,” the former pronun
ciation having developed in the North
of England and the Anglo-Saxon part
of Scotland, while the southern Eng
lish gradually evolved the word
“church!.”
All of these family names indicate
that their first bearers had lived at one
time in one of several towns or com
munities. Kirkpatrick (which simply
means Patrick’s Church), is a place
name in Scotland, as also is Kirkaldy.
Kirkwoods, tracing back to medieval
times, are to be found in at least two
places in England. Kirkland is a de
velopment of Kirkland, and places of {
this name exist in Cumberland, Fife, I candor that wounds friendship. Who--
Lancasihiire and Westmoreland. There I - - -
are also numerous places by the name I thinks,
of Kirkby. Kirkley is in Suffolk. i kindly.
But these are not the radiograms
I seek to gather from
The void where echoeB of the past
Perhaps yet faintly hum;
I hope to hear on ethfe, waves
Still drifting to and fro
Some word immortal Caesor spoke
Long centuries ago. \
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A Remarkable Resemblance.
Brown had received a dog as
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taking it for a little run he met the
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“Is that yer new dawg?” she asked.
He answered in the affirmative
thinking to help her with her
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“D-o-g, my dear, not d-a-w-g.”
She reddened a bit, shifted on
little feet and finally stammered,
‘‘Sawful like a dawg, ain’t it?”
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Friendship cal’s for sincerity, butj
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a
One morning while
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Not Many People Have.
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But the last word went to the Irish
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