SELF-IGNITING CARDS
MILLION DROPPED IN GERMANY IN PAST FOUR WEEKS. FIRES IN FARMING AREAS & FORESTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) BERLIN, September 10. Authorised circles state that the R.A.F. has dropped a million self-ignit-ing celluloid cards in Germany in the past four weeks and has set fire to crops, barns and schools in Westphalia, Hanover and the Harz Mountains; also in Southern and Central Germany. One .plane could carry a quarter of a million of the cards, which are two inches square. NEW R.A.F. WEAPON “SELF-IGNITING LEAF.” INTENDED FOR MANY USES. . A new weapon is being used by the R.A.F. with which to carry the war into Germany, Daventry reports. It is a form of incendiary bomb, best described as a self-igniting leaf, designed to set fire to military stores in the open, at arsenals and factories, in fields, in open railway trucks and lorries, and also to ignite woods in which enemy stores are hidden.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 1940, Page 5
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159SELF-IGNITING CARDS Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 1940, Page 5
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