5th January 1915: The Scotsman carried a letter concerning the Christmas truce. Eighteenth Century adventurer, unaccountably stranded in the Twentieth Century, Winston Churchill wrote to Prime Minister Asquith today, envisaging tanks ‘“…it would be quite easy in a short time to fit up a number of steam tractors with small armoured shelters, in which men and machine guns could be placed, which would be bullet-proof. Used at night, they would not be affected by artillery fire to any extent. The caterpillar system would enable trenches to be crossed quite easily, and the weight of the machine would destroy all barbed-wire entanglements”. German attack on Edea (Cameroons) repulsed by French garrison. Tabriz (North Persia) evacuated by Russian forces [This city was occupied by Russian forces before the outbreak of the War.] French blow up half-a-mile of German trenches in the Argonne. Daily Mirror headline ‘The Germans admit another defeat. I shouted and waved my red flag signalman tells sensational story at Ilford train smash inquiry.’
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