The calibre, of the shell used in the new gui between six and seven inches, and the range will be at least a mile beyond the practicable flying height of modern bombers. Rapidity of fire will be such that with massed batteries it will be impossible for any machine to pass.
Without registering direct hits, the projectiles will create overhead atmóspheric disturbances that must prove fatal to bombers coming within an eighth of a mile of these zones. Conditions equivalent to a hurricane will be set up.
Many secret tests of the new weapon have been made in the past twelve months. At first they were not entirely satisfactory, but the final tests gave such satisfaction that the heads of the Air Ministry believe air raids will be impossible once the barrage is set going.
I am able to reveal for the first time that the inventor of this gun was forced to leave Germany at the moment when he was in secret negotiation with the authorities for the rights in his discovery. He brought his plans out of the country at great personal risk, for after he had been served with notice to quit the Nazi Air Ministry advised the police that he must be stopped at all costs. But the police failed to find him.
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