| Show New ew Nazi all V 2 0 Robot ot Bombs om 5 Travel rave Faster aster Than an Sound oun Churchill Reveals Renewed Attacks Pound 2000 70 Miles Weapons Fly High J Berlin Says They Make Antwerp Useless Useless By J- J Dwight L. L LONDON Nov 10 UP The lP-The The Germans for weeks have been plunging V 2 rockets into England at a speed faster than sound and from arcs 70 miles high but thus far have caused little damage Prime Minister linister Churchill announced announced announced an an- Friday in commons The Germans said V 2 and the i earlier V V-l flying robot bombs were being used wed against both Paris and Antwerp as well as England and boasted that the Vengeance we pons make maJe the won hard-won Belgian port unsuitable ble for tor Unloading unloading unloading un un- loading troops and materiel on a major scale The intact docks of Antwerp are depended upon by Gen Dwight D. D Eisenhower to supply his offensive into Germany Ger Ger- many I The e scale of the attacks has not hitherto bee been significant Churchill said aid Casualties have been light largely large large- ly because the warhead of ot approximately approximately approximately ap ap- ap- ap proximately a a. ton buries itself so deeply Into the earth when it lands at speeds exceeding JOO 00 miles an hour hour Where There the rockets were coming from was not clear The Germans said the allies never would find the camouflaged sites Churchill said some were found on the captured captured captured cap cap- Dutch island of ren German propagandists pulled out all stops they insisted that Churchill had hid to admit the exIstence existence ex cx- of V 2 that it was not the last secret weapon the they hinted hinted hinted hint hint- ed direly that the United States might feel its explosive weight Indeed Church Churchill said the range might bc be hi 1 Military men said paid thus far the he rocket which is dubbed the flyIng fly lying ly- ly Ing tel telephone phone pole because of ot Its J elongated shape had been a fl flop p. p The whole contraption weighs about 15 tons and has a range of more than miles but carries only about a ton of ot explosives Some extreme estimates of oC its speed run to miles an hour Swedish reports said the rockets rocket's speed and tr trajectory j made accuracy accuracy accuracy ac ac- ac- ac curacy impossible Churchill termed hi highly hl colored the accounts of ot the V V 2 2 flying lying telegraph p pol pole a 1 e bombardment broadcast by the Germans in the thc Continued on Pace Pue Two Column n Five New German V 2 Rocket Bombs Carry Faster Than Sound I I Continued from P Page e One past two days and said they indIcated indicated indicated indi indI- the Germans were Jn in desperate desperate desperate des need to give the home front encouragement The bombardment with rockets rocket which arch up to 70 miles in the stratosphere before landing without without with with- out warning at a speed greater than sound was sound was described by the prime minister as less effective than the robot bombs Before the allied armies overran overran overran over over- ran launching sites of the winged bombs the Germans Inflicted heavy damage on London and southern England The Germans now launch winged bombs from airplanes airplanes airplanes air air- planes flying out over the North sea Churchill said other sites would be overrun by Gen Dwight D D. I Eisenhower's armies Fuel Shortage The London Daily Mail ail expressed expressed ex ex- I pressed the opinion that shortages of oC fuel and disruption of ot German home industries have prevented the nazis from launching bunchIng a a. co colossal colossal colossal co- co assault with their No 2 secret weapon Sifting Sitting of reports from Stockholm Stockholm Stockholm Stock Stock- holm and inspired German rumors from other neutral countries leads to the belief belie that tie Germans planned originally to unload as much as tons of high explosives explosives explosives on London in a 8 12 hour 12 hour period Each of the rockets these sources indicate was intended to weigh about 50 tons but technical hitches caused a scaling down until untila a workable model was found This is s probably a projectile weighing 15 tons but carrying only a ton tono tonof tonof o of high explosive Some Conclusions These are the conclusions about the he V 2 weapon as drawn from froma troma a study of ot neutral reports It has a range of between and miles is possibly rocket- rocket propelled using some fuel such as liquId oxygen or alcohol It has hasa a a. maximum altitude of feet and could reach a top speed o of miles an hour faster than anything known above the earths earth's atmosphere On hitting the ground Its ts speed might be 2000 miles an hour It is possibly remotely controlled con con- trolled rolled by radio on its upward flight light but is free o of control on the downward flight It is believed in London that the he nazis began beg experimenting with their V 2 weapon as far back as 1912 1942 when the royal air force forre orce hit the research station tation in the Baltic Reports from all sources indicate indicate indi- indi cate ate that the Germans' Germans V vengeance vengeance vengeance ven ven- g weapons have not lived up ip to their boasted reputation and that Hitler's hopes o of turning the tide Ide of ot war with tho the V 2 are futile utile The prime minister said the rockets had landed at widely scattered scat scat- ered points in England No official statement about the attack had been issued before Churchill said in order not to give information to the enemy The rockets cause somewhat heavier damage in the Immediate vicinity o of the crater but rather less extensive blast around the neighborhood where they land than the flying bombs he disclosed Defending the governments government's censorshIp censorship censorship cen cen- until now of stories on the rocket et bomb Churchill declared The government has been confirmed confirmed confirmed con con- firmed in this course by the fact that until two days ago the enemy made no mention of the weapon in but last Wednesday Wednes Wednes- Wednesday day they made an official announcement announcement announcement an an- followed by a number of highly colored accounts I do not propose to comment on it except to say that the statements statements state state- ments ment in this announcement are a good reflection of what the German German German Ger Ger- man government would wish their people to believe and of their desperate des desperate need to afford them some encouragement said the prime minister Churchill pointed out that no reliable or sufficient public warning warning warn warn- ing inS can in present circumstances be given against a rocket bomb attack He declared that the speed attained by the missile which has been described by neutral neutral neutral neu neu- sources as a flying telegraph pole outstrips sound The Berlin radio said the Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans never had contended that V 2 was a war winning weapon but that it was an entirely new weapon produced despite the ordeal ordeal ordeal or or- deal of the heaviest air warfare unleashed against us |
