NAZI GLASS MINES

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21550, 1 November 1944, Page 3

NAZI GLASS MINES

ALLIED SAPPERS TESTED INGENIOUS BOOBY-TRAPS (10 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 31. The Germans are now using an allglass land mine to impede the progress of Allied troops in Europe. Tiie glass mine is an improvement on the’ wooden mine they .tried earlier. Allied engineers have been using metal deteciors to indicate the whereabouts of hidden bombs and booby-traps. These devices are extremely sensitive .to the smauesl pieces of metal, but the Germans have built glass firing pins into their latest weapons. As the retreat in Europe continues, the Germans are thinking up more cunning devices to add to the difficulties of the Allied engineers who “delouse ’ the areas abandoned by the enemy. An engineer officer told a correspondent with the Third Army that the “Germans have gone boobytrap mad.” Nowadays every jam tin, piece oi wire, string, table, chair, helmet and book must be investigated. Still the most hated, however, is the mine familiarly known as "Bouncing Betty,” which.- when disturbed, leaps 3ft in the air before detonating.