"FAIRY TALES"

Evening Star, Issue 25067, 7 January 1944, Page 3

"FAIRY TALES"

GERMAN SECRET WEAPONS PART OF NAZI NERVE WAR LONDON. January 0. The stories of an enormous German rocket gun designed to shell London from t'rauce are ridiculed by the famous Swiss explosives expert', Dr Alfred 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 public believes 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 221 b, with a range of only about a mile and aquarter. " 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 bo nub, and nobody will for a very considerable time. The most terrific explosive known is called tetra-nitro-mothanbe.n/.01. of which all army headquarters know."