ROCKET GUN CLAIM

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 5, 7 January 1944, Page 5

ROCKET GUN CLAIM

RIDICULED'BY EXPERT

LONDON, January 6. The stories of an enormous German rocket gun designed to shell London from France are ridiculed by a famous Swiss explosives expert, Dr. Albert Stettbacher. He is equally contemptuous of other "secret weapons." "Rocket guns and secret weapons are nothing but a nerve war to scare credulous laymen," said Dr. Stettbacher. "Secret weapons are only effective if the people believe in their existence. Hitherto all these supersecret rockets, uranium bombs, and new devastating" explosives have produced an effect only on the civilian mind. No rocket gun could possibly fire 120 miles to London from France nor use a 12-ton shell.

"The rocket shells used by the Germans against Allied bombers weigh 221b, with a range of only about a mile and a quarter. It is surprising how even trained scientists should fall for such fairy tales as uranium bombs which are to destroy all living beings within an area of 200 miles. No human being has yet invented such a bomb, and nobody will for a very considerable time. The most terrific explosive known is called Tetranitro-methan-benzol, of which all army headquarters know."