NEW INCENDIARY WEAPON
USED BY ROYAL AIR FORCE GOOD WORK ON CONCEALED TARGETS GERMAN ALLEGATION OF POISONING DENTED (Official Wireless) (Received Sept. 11, 3.15 p.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 10 It Is learned from an authoritative source tonight that the Royal Air Force is using a form of incendiary weapon which could he described as a self-igniting leaf. It is designed to set fire, for example, to military stores standing in the open, an arsenal or ammunition dump, or engineers’ stores in the field, military supplies in the open, trucks in a marshalling yard, or parks of military lorries, and other similar objectives. It would also set alight, under suitable conditions, to a wood in which military units or a depot or ammunition plant are concealed. It is known that the enemy has concealed such targets in woods. Accusations made by the Germans that the “leaves” cause poisoning is false. The leaf is not poisonous, but if handled would, of course, cause burns, just as every other incendiary bomb would.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21215, 11 September 1940, Page 8
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168NEW INCENDIARY WEAPON Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21215, 11 September 1940, Page 8
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