MYSTERY BOMBS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 121, 18 November 1943, Page 6

MYSTERY BOMBS

NAZI SECRET ¥/EAPONS

SUPPORT FOR THEIR NERVES (By Telegraph—l'ress Association—Copyright.) Rec. 1 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 17.

German threats of the use of secret weapons against England are causing mild interest and speculation. Nazi propagandists have recently been pouring out blood-curdling stories of the secret weapons they intend to use. They promise first a radio-controlled bomb, which is claimed to be 100 per cent, accurate to a range of five miles; secondly, a new rocket projectile which, when fired from the French coast, will be certain of hitting the immense target of Greater London; and, third, a rocket-projected bomb that causes "amazing frightfulness." The Nazi propagandists seem to be "plumping" for the French coast rocket. , The Berlin correspondent of the Spanish newspaper "Madrid" writes: "There is scarcely a German who does not take it for granted that the skies will soon be ploughed by thousands of stratosphere rockets." • The "Daily Telegraph," discussing the subject, says there is, of course, nothing inherently impossible in such a bombardment. During this war, weapons of the racket type have been greatly developed. It is quite possible that Hitler's technicians are trying to develop a very large long-range rocket in emplacements built along the Channel coast. "The technical difficulties they will have to overcome will be enormous, and the rocket, if they ever did produce it, would be a most inaccurate weapon, suitable only for the bombardment of large areas, targets such as London. Theoretically, its use is a possibility, but it is hardly likely to be on any considerable scale." The Istanbul correspondent of the "Daily Express" states that an antiNazi Austrian refugee said that two things keep the German morale from snapping—first, a belief that differences wili arise between the Anglo-Saxons and the Russians, permitting Hitler to make a quick peace and to deal with the Soviet: and, second, a belief in the terrible efficiency of a German secret reprisal weapon. If by Christmas this weapon did not materialise he predicted a rapid crumbling of the internal morale of the Germans.