SECRET WEAPONS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 96, 24 April 1945, Page 5

SECRET WEAPONS

TESTING GROUND CAPTURED LONDON, April 21. The Allies captured near Hillersleben a German army testing ground for secret weapons, covering hundreds of acres, says a correspondent of the Associated Press. It is a vast storehouse of inventions. There will be months of work and guessing for Allied scientists and ordnance officers before all the secrets are worked out. First there is the great "What is it?" Nobody has yet formed a conclusion what it is intended to be, but it certainly is the largest land-going vehicle of this war. It has four wheels, each nine feet high, with wooden pads. There is room for two drivers, sitting 12 feet above the ground. It has a | nat top like the deck of a ship, to which something could be screwed down. I here are hundreds of new anti-tank funs at least 30 feet long and firing a 120 mm. shell. There is a giant howitzer with a barrel almost as wide as it is long. It is evident that the Germans were concentrating on high-velocity guns. Several hundred rooms were devoted entirely to the development of aerial cameras, gun sights, and electrical equipment