INCENDIARY BOMBS
WATER THE MAIN ANSWER
NEW BRITISH INSTRUCTION
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Special Correspondent.) (Rec. 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, April 13. Water is advocated for putting on the incendiary bombs falling in an inflammable area where fires are likely to spread rapidly. Sand is advocated for smothering them quickly when they fall on streets, roofs, and other non-inflammable surfaces. That is the considered advice based on the latest experience, given by Wing Commander E. J. Hodsoll, Inspector-General of Civil Defence in Great Britain, in a special interview. "You can break up an incendiary bomb with water from a high-powered fire-Horse jet in about a minute," he said. "It just knocks the incendiary into little bits and destroys it. That is one way. Another is to use a stirrup hand-pump which has a spray and a jet. We were formerly taught to use the spray only on the bomb for the main reason that application of the jet made the bomb splutter violently, for which reason it was cortr sidered dangerous to bystanders. "But, as the result of experiments, we have altered the instructions, which now state: "Use the jet wherever you can, because it extinguishes the bomb quicker and the splutterings are not really dangerous. That is now our accepted doctrine."'
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 87, 14 April 1942, Page 6
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210INCENDIARY BOMBS Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 87, 14 April 1942, Page 6
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