In the first, an infantry-carrying tank (the new" Mark V.
* ") advanees firing its pieces until stopped by a fifteen-foot-wide canal. Its cargo of infantry tumbles out of its steel ports to man the canal-bank, whilst from within the tank a flag is waved to call up help in the shape of an R.E. "Bridging Tank." This strange machine, obedient to the signal, advances to the water's edge, lays its girder bridge and retires, whilst a pair of light fighting tanks (Post-war "Medium C's ") lead the infantry triumphantly across. "The Attack" is not quite the spectacular affair that it might be, though to those who have seen the real thing, the recurring lulls and pauses, and the general inexplicableness of a large part of the incidents, will seem peculiarly realistic. However, when so many of the events are frankly circus turns, those that are of real military significance might well condescend to more dramatic staging, lest the public, dazzled by sartorial and equestrian brilliance, should fail to see and comprehend the new portent of mechanism.
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