NERVE WAR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 January 1944, Page 3

NERVE WAR

STORIES OF ENORMOUS GERMAN ROCKET GUN. STATEMENT BY SWISS EXPERT. (Bv Telegraph-Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, January 6. Stories of an enormous German rocket gun designed to shell London from France are ridiculed by a 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 ff the public believes in their existence. Hitherto all these super-secret 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 Garmans against Allied bombers weigh 22 lb., 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.”