LONDON’S DEFENCES
“SURPRISES IN OFFING” SECRET DEVICES LONDON, Sept. 29. “There are some very fine surprises in the offing,” says Professor A. M. Low, referring to secret devices which are being prepared—some already have been tested and are being produced on an extensive scale —to strengthen London’s defences against night bombers. ‘Many new ideas and new methods are being applied,” he added. “Parachute flares and lights, microphones on balloons,, and new types of shells are all known. Scientists are busily examining such things as bombs -which are directed at the enemy by sound or infra-red rays, aerial mines, an automatic gun and searchlight co-ordina-tion, and other new devices which shall be nameless.” While a Sunday newspaper headline, “Bombers Race From London’s Big Guns,” is regarded as an exaggeration, it is true that more and more German bombs , are dropping uselessly on the countryside. Londoners await with acute eagerness the night when the new “terror barrage” will demonstrate its capacity to harass, break up, and drive off raiding squadrons.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20379, 16 October 1940, Page 9
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