The “Rock ” is Vast Underground Fortress

Manawatu Times, Volume 67, Issue 208, 1 September 1942, Page 5

The “Rock ” is Vast Underground Fortress

MAY BE OVERRUN BUT NOT CONQUERED. (British Official Wireless.) Received Monday, 0.20 p.m. RUGBY, Aug. 30. “The new Gibraltar has its brain centre hidden from attack and atne to control any form of onensive without -.ending a single man into the open. That is our great secret at tne key to the Mediterranean where the men nave gone underground with the new iueas in warrare.’ Ynis description was g.ven in a broadcast to-uay by a man who recently visited the Rook of Gibraltar. "Attached from land, sea and air,” he said, "and even if invasion s wanned over the rock, the forties., would stiil not be ta*en. tveiy dc=.enuer wou.d reach ea.ety wn.ie tne enemy wouid ue naras»eu and in constant danger.” The commentator aes-v-rued tunnels in the rock* a t.iousano • eec oeep wnere even the discharge oi the giant guns above could not be neard. Along tnese tunnoie there was a gigantic industrial installation wuere all tne aotiVit.es ot a uusy city coulo ue carried on, including tne running o. • aaas ana railways, iue equipment inuiudes a power house, a hospital, kit--nenß witn electric ovens, con.Torti.ble uarrac.vß, repair shops where practically any gun couid be overhaulea, oakeries, libraries, cinemas and nuge stores ot tood and ammunition. *1 was not allowed to see how the new underground Gibraltar will attack when everyone is driven underground,” tne broadcaster said, “but even if every anti-aircrait gun on the Rock wa# smashed it wouid etill be decidly hazardous for any axis aircraft to go near Gibraltar.”