A NEW AEROPLANE BOMB.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 27 October 1916, Page 4

A NEW AEROPLANE BOMB.

Enemy aeroplanes, {operating from Kovel, are using a new type of aeroplane bomb which is exceptionally efficient (says a correspondent of the Morning Post). It is an Austrian production ,and is, I believe, the first contribution of Austrian inventiveness to the machinery of this war. Its main feature is a heavy rubber base in which a detonator is embedded. But, principally its effectiveness is due to the fact that the explosion radiates from the centre laterally and not upwards. Anywhere about a man’s average stature there is comparative safety, even in close proximity to a bomb. In the space below that height, for a distance, of twenty or thirty yards around, death or mutilation is almost certain. The effect of a rain of these new bombs from an aeroplane flotilla upon an area where dug-outs arc impossible, defies the imagination.