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1N DEFENCE OF BRITISH SHIPS ENTANGLING WIRES TAKEN UP BY ROCKETS. NAZIS ADMIT DAMAGE TO PLANES. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, August 22. Britain is using a new weapon for defending ships against enemy planes, according to reports from the Berlin correspondents of Swedish newspapers. The Nazis say a number of planes attacking a British vessel in the Atlantic were fired on with light rockets, containing long wires attached to parachutes, designed to tangie up the propellers. Several German planes, attacked in this manner, made forced landings in France. One still carried a wire 262 yards long, with a small metal box containing an unopened parachute.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 August 1941, Page 6
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