The Archive · 1940

New Tricks

London, Sept. 19.

Both Britain and Germany pro-Guced new tricks from their bags last night as the raiders continued their raids over a wide area in London, hurling bombs on rich and poor districts, Correspondents were not permitted to reveal the details of the tricks except to mention that Britain's "new stunt was apparently some simple method of bringing down raiders without the use of guns, balloons oF lanes—one of these things which will make people say "why didn't T ever think of that" The German, trick is a new type of bomb.

Whether the British trick was successful, it was impossible to say, but at least two planes were reported to have been brought down over central London and which, according to the Air Ministry, may and may not have been shot down by anti-aircraft guns.

The new German bomb apparently did not prove any more effective than the bombs previously used. Ils values, however, so far as the civilian population is concerned, are more psyeholosical than destructive,

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