The Archive · 1934

Extensive Experiments Being Made

By me "N.-C. Henato"

Working in secret behind closed doors, armament experts are deve aping a new weapon that will revvolutionize warfare on Jand as the torpedo revolutionized warfare at This mew weapon is rocket artillery, which gives a range of 500 miles, and would make it possible to bombard London with guns stationed in Paris, Hamburg, Denmark and even parts of Switzerland!

There would be no need to send aeroplanes on bombing expeditions, for the high explosives, gas and disease germs could be dropped with far greater ease and safely by the rocket guns.

The experiments with rockets being carried out in several countries, notably Germany and the US.A., are ostensibly with the idea of making Focket-propelled passenger, carrying planes, and there is_-no doubt that this Js'a possibility of the future. But the interest of certain Governments jin rockets suggests that they have in mind more immediate possibilities, It is worth noting that the US. War Department sought the co-opera Hon of Professor Goddard, one of the greatest living experts on rockets, in series of experiments,

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