NAZI ROCKET FOR RUSSIA

Chronicle (Levin), 27 September 1949, Page 5

NAZI ROCKET FOR RUSSIA

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-Reuter.

Big German Plant Working At Full Speed

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Received Tuesday, 10 a.m. BERLIN, Sept. 26. , German scientists are producing for Russia a trans-tDcean rocket they designed for Hicler just before the war ended, says the Associated Press correspondent quoting Soviet zone informants. « The informants, who have access to the office of the Soviet-backed EaSt German police, said that a mammoth under-roimd munitions plant at Peei^emunde, on the Baltic ■ coast, is turning out the rockets at full speed. Allied intelligence officers said that they knew of "certain activity" at Peenemunde but declined to elaborate, The new rocket, said the German informant, was dubbed "Fire Lily" by the Nazis, who never had a chance to use it. The name com.es from the fact that the rocket "blossoms" into eight to ten separate aerial bombs when it arrives over the target, scattering destruction over a three^square mile area. 'The report says that its range and accuracy are sufficient to hit a target 5000 miles away. Peenemunde is now guarded by a barricade of high-voltage wires and mine fields, and is patrolled by 3500 members of the Soviet security police. Flotillas of speedboats are . used to guard the spaward ap- : proaches and all supplies for the ; plant and workers are delivered by sea for security reasons.