NEW WEAPON USED BY R.A.F.
LONDON, September 10. The Royal Air Force is using in its extensive raids on Germany a new weapon. It is best described as a “self-igniting leaf.” The Germans, who admit its efficiency, report that it consists of a celluloid disk. Under suitable conditions it sets fire to woods, to open trucks loaded with goods and to anything readily inflammable. It has proved particularly effective. Authorized circles in Berlin state that the Royal Air Force has dropped 1,000,000 self-igniting celluloid cards on Germany in the past four weeks and has set fire to crops, barns and schools in Westphalia, Hanover and the Hartz mountains, and also in Southern and Central Germany. One plane could carry 250,000 cards, which are two inches square. Accusations made by the Germans that the “leaves” cause poisoning is false. The “leaf” is not poisonous, but if handled would, of course, cause bums, just as every other incendiary bomb would.
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Southland Times, Issue 24229, 12 September 1940, Page 7
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158NEW WEAPON USED BY R.A.F. Southland Times, Issue 24229, 12 September 1940, Page 7
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