RAIDS IN GERMANY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 243, 11 September 1940, Page 8

RAIDS IN GERMANY.

DAMAGE ADMITTED. NEW R.A.F. DEVICE. (United Press Association —Copyright.) (Rec. 1.10 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 11. The Berlin News Agency admits that R.A.F bombs fell in the Moabit district, also North Berlin, where incendiaries struck houses in a main street and set lire to roofs. A house was destroyed. Authorised circles in Berlin state that the R.A.F. have dropped a million self-igniting celluloid cards in Germany over the past four weeks. These have set fire to crops, barns, and schools in Westphalia, Hanover, and the Hartz Mountains, also South-, ern and Central Germany. One plane could carry a quarter of a million cards, which are 2in. square. It is learned from an authoritative source in London that the R.A.F. are using a form of incendiary weapon whiclj could be described as a selfigniting leaf. It is designed to set fire, for example, to military stores standing in the open, an arsenal or annnuition dump or engineers’ stores in the field, military supplies in open trucks in a marshalling yard, or parks ot military-lorries arid other similar' objectives. It would also set light under suitable conditions to a wood in which military units or a depot or ammunition plant are concealed. It is known the enemy has concealed such targets in woods. Accusation made by the _ Germans that the “leaves” cause poisoning is false. The leaf is not poisonous, but if handled would, of course, cause burns, just as every, other incendiary bomb would.