Berlin, Sept. 13. An indication of the effectiveness of the terrific anti-aircraft barrage in and around London on Wednesday night is given by the German official news agency, which says that "shells burst directly along-be" German planes.
The engine of one machine, it adds, fell out when hit by shrapnel -Reuter Beetles—Not Bats, In Berlin's Belfry New York, Sept. 13.
Britain was accused by the official German wireless today of dropping beetles'to ruin the German potato crop.
British airmen were dropping bags of Colorado beetles in an effort to destroy the German potato crop and bags of such pests were found in west Germany and also in north Luxembourg and Belgium, the German wireless said.
Interviewed at Cambridge, the Harvard University etomologist, Professor P. J. Darlington, said that "it would be perfectly feasible" for the British to drop such beetles.
He added, however, that "this type of Beetle has been a severe pest in Germany for rany years."—United Press.
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