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'Death-Ravs' From New Bomb

[ON DON, Feb. 26 (Special).— -Latest German secret weapon is a V-bomb which, will release 'death-rays' sound waves of very high frequency which decompose 'ring tissue — reports Stockholm correspondent of the British United Press.

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S|raoundarfeactobr?ef bUUt ta hnimrmans in Berlin and Stock thlf don, UaIly EXP«S8 reports '?A. n«-tral eye-witnesses, who V » . , 1he Germans launching lifW' assert that they are Iton £e»Vrom any fIxed tnslalU Th^r1^111 tran*POTt trailers. The V-2's arrived at The Hague

(Holland) railway station ? from Germany loaded on special trucks, from which they are swung on to long trailers and taken direct to the firing point. The rocket is cradled horizon ally on the trailer. It Is first fuelled from tankers. Then the gyroscope is adjusted. Power generated from the lorry engine raises the cradle until the rocket lies at an angle of 50 de rAeSdevise in the ropket using hydrogen peroxide shqots the pro

jectile from the cradle for about 100 yards. Then, with a mighty roar, the main propulsion unit comes into action and the rocket soars away, not rising vertically, but poised at 50 degrees and leaving a trail of white smoke. At least 40 per cent of the rockets fired- at The Hague have been seen by observers to burst shortly after launching, causing a high, deathrate among the crews. ? ?? v'

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