SECRET WEAPONS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 114, 18 May 1942, Page 5

SECRET WEAPONS

GERMAN PROPAGANDA London, May 15. * weapons, parti< ilarly in the Kerch Peninsula. The truth of these allusions is most difficult to assess, and some neutral reports from usually reliable sources go so far as to declare that no new weapon is being used unless the mass use of flame-throwers can be so called. Th° Germans are now also mentioning that special tractors are used to haul vehicles over the deep mud in th* : if • - >st interesting story comes from a Swedish volunteer fighting with the Germans. He says that one of the new weapons is a shell filled with compressed air and another substance. These shells, he says, kill by bursting the troops’ lungs owing to the terrific air pressure. The volunteer says that he saw many Russians dead after this weapon had been used, and that they showed no visible injuries. The weapon is said to consist of large missies similar to torpedoes which are fired oy specially-constructed guns, their explosion being effective owt a radius of 400 yards. As a sequel to the German attempt to differentiate between K.i.-on tras and “nerve gas.” promi. Sv dish scientists and a nerve spec alist have published a statement saying that any gas which has a paralysing effect must be regarded as a poison gas. A German military spokesman says that poison gas which the Russians have reported from the Crimea was probably emitted by mortal shells i from a new “weapon." The ‘•hell? emit poison gas. thou . ■ a hemical substance has not actually been employed.