GREAT FORTRESS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20877, 1 September 1942, Page 3

GREAT FORTRESS

GIBRALTAR SECRETS HUGE TUNNELLED CITY INVASION DEFIED (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) (10.30 a.m.) RUGBY. Aug. 31. “Now Gibraltar has a brain centre hidden from attack and able to control any form of offensive without sending a single man in.to the open. That is our great secret at the key to the Mediterranean where * men 1 ave gone underground with a new idea in warfare.” This description was given in . a broadcast to-day by a man who recently visited the Rock. If Gibraltar were attacked from land, sea and air, he said, and even if invasion troops swarmed over the Rock, the fortress could still not be taken. Every defender would reach safety while the enemy would De harassed and in constant danger. The commentator described tunnels in the rock 1000 ft. deep, where even the discharge of the giant guns above could not be heard. Along these tunnels there was a gigantic industrial installation where all the activities of a busy city could be carried on, including the running of roads and railways. The equipment includes a power-house, hospital, kitchens with electric ovens, comfortable barracks, repair shops where practically any gun could be overhauled, bakeries, libraries, cinemas and huge stores of food and ammunition. “I was not allowed to see how the new underground Gibraltar will attack when everyone has been driven underground,” the broadcaster said, “but even if every anti-aircraft gun on the Rock was smashed, it would still be decidedly hazardous for any Axis aircraft to go near Gibraltar.”