oppositely.

Inside there is nothing much but machinery of the gasolene
type, and the machine guns. The tank is closed except for
small openings out of which the guns project, and slots
through which the men inside look out to guide themselves or
direct their fire.

Such, in brief, is a British tank, one of the most
powerful and effective weapons yet loosed against the
Germans. They are useful in tearing down the barbed-wire
entanglements on the Boche side of No Man's Land, and they
can clear the way up to and past the trenches, which they
can straddle and wriggle across like some giant worm.

"And to think that Tom Swift didn't enthuse over these!"
murmured Ned. "I wonder what's the matter with him!"




Chapter IV

Queer Doings


There was a subdued air of activity about the Swift plant.
Subdued, owing to the fact that it was mostly confined to
one building--the new, large one, about which stretched a
high and strong fence, made with tongue-and-groove boards so