THE UNPLAYED CARDS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 54, 1 September 1944, Page 6

THE UNPLAYED CARDS

ENEMY'S/SECRET WEAPONS

'." LONDON, August 31. - • The Germans, faced with growing Allied pressure, are making intense efforts to bring tip a fantastic variety of secret weapons and equipment from Le Havre and Pas de Calais, say correspondents from .France. The "Daily Mail's" correspondent says. Le Havre has been the nest of" •new gadgets which the enemy hoped ■would play havoc with the invasion plans and offset the growing Allied - .shipping tonnage. Recent Naval and Coastal Command action has been consistently aimed at -neutralising the enemy's weapons. The "Daily Express" says flyingbomb launching sites in the Pas de Calais have become as big a target for the Army as were Tripoli, Tunis, Naples, Rome, and.Paris. A number of sites have been discovered in the wake of the Army. Every piece of concrete is now meticulously reported for the attention of experts. Every time one is reported, a.scientist packs a couple of days' rations into a jeep ana* goes off to examine the site. None of the-sites had the launching ramp in place. In almost every case these sites were constructed by forced labour from Belgium and Plolland, and in £reat secrecy.