NEW TYPE WEAPONS
AIR WAR OYER LONDON Rec. 10.50 p.m. London, Sept 27. New forms of defence and attack have been used in the past few night raids on London. Citizens have been aware of new and strange noises and have heard thunderous explosions distintegrating into staccato cracks high in the heavens. There has also been a muffled rattling which i has been dubbed "carpct slipper machine-guns." There was also a curi1 ous flat roar and something which seemingly strikes an imaginary ceiling miles up, "then bumps clamorously along the i top of the sky. | These queer noises are actually caused , by new types of weapons or well-tried weapons adapted to new uses.'New types of shclls. whose composition and efTect I are secret. are bcing used. New and more elaborate types of flaming onions have also been noticed on recent nights. The Gennans' surprises include parach'ute bombs dcscribed as shiny and cigar-shapcd. apparcntly constructcd of j aluminium alloy which float down gently aird explode after landing. :r. s
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 September 1940, Page 7
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