| Show New Delayed Action Nazi Mine Smashes Car Dazes Writer Editors Editor's note United Press War ar Correspondent Richard McMillan McMillan Mc Mc- Millan 1 describes In the Iho following following follow tollow- ing dispatch a n personal encounter encounter encounter en en- counter with a new now typo of German German German Ger Ger- man mine mina which gave him a close brush with serious Injury or death Ho no has covered cred six fighting fronts during the course of the tho present war B By Richard D. D lInart l WITH BRITISH TROOPS CLOSI CLOSING G ON THE MEUSE Nov 17 11 UP Our UP-Our Our heavy car did a I kind of St. St Vitus dance and came down in the mud with a crash of ot otwood wood glass and smashed shed steel Ive I've been blown up by dynamite and hit by shell splinters but this was the first time Ive I've ever been blown up by a mine Its It's just like one of oC those quick flashes from the explosion of a powder magazine youve you've seen in the movies movies There Is a terrific upheaval In Inthe inthe the thc road then everything falls around you you glass glass splinters fragments fragments fragments frag frag- ments of wood and steel Then dazed mechanically feel you yourself yourself your your- self to see if anything is broken or missing Our driver took the full fuU blast which blew off the wheel under him smashed the door of the driving driving dri in ing scat broke his leg and wounded wound wound- ed him in the temple He crawled moaning through the shattered door while J-he J he rest of us us British Correspondent Ronald Monson Brazilian Correspondent Murillo Marroquin and myself shaken up but not severely hurt struggled to get free from the filled debris-filled interior We Vc had encountered one of the thc nazis nazis' fancy new schutz mines I which are designed to hold their explosion until several vehicles have passed over them They're I devilishly cunning Their purpose purpose is not so much to blow up a truck or a jeep as to dig a big crater and force fOice a n diversion of or traffic through roadside fields where more of oC them are planted waiting to go o off as soon as the first few vehicles have dug the track We Ve had found the crater in the road too deep to cross safely and took the track through a dank marshy field made by vehicles that had detoured tho the crater safely The distance we needed to cover to reach the road rond again was only 25 yards but it was enough to conceal a field of those delayed action schutz mines The convoy behind us stopped and tommies dashed through the mine field at the risk of their own lives to drag us to safety Our driver drivel who Is going going- to recover was taken to a field hospital which was getting getting- many men wounded by mines mines mostly mostly legs and feet blown off off a doctor said Wp Vp owe our lives Jives to the fact that the British army is countering countering counter counter- ing nazi mines by strengthening the chassis of its vehicles they'll break the force of the explosion British engineers study every new type of ot mine knowing they will play an increasingly important part in the defense of ot Germany as we push through the frontiers |
