The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-10
Robot
 Bombs Hit England
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ing Ras mains" because of the tre- mendous explosion touched off when they land.
 Fury Of Despair
 The rockets, fired from launch ing platforms on the continent into the stratosphere, were the second terror weapons to be unleashed against Britain zy the Germans in the fury of their despair at facing certain defeat.
 But the fact that V-2 travelled unheard and virtually unseen has robbed it of some of the psychologist al effect of terror stirred up by the slower, noisy jet-propelled va robots. V-2 also has not been as ef- fective or used in such numbers as it's smaller predecessor.
 Some launching areas already have been overrun with the capture of Walcheren Island, in southwest Holland, east of London, he dis closed, but said i've cannot be cer- tain Che enemy will not be able to increase the range of the rockets. "
 Same Weight
 Churchill said the rockets carried the same weight of explosives = or ton-as the small jet-propelled bombs with which the Germans have been bombarding British since last June IS. Though he did not give the dimensions of the rockets, Swedish dispatches have placed them 30 to 50 feet long compared with 25-foot-long jet-propelled missiles.
 The rockets, however, were de- signed to penetrate rather deeper before exploding, he said.
 '"This results in somewhat heavier damage in the immidiate vicinity above the. crater with rather less extensive blast effect around it." he explained.
 Churchill said 8 number of the rockets had crashed in widely scattered points" in this country during the last few weeks, but the government withheld a statement until after the Germans announced their use in a communique two days ago.
 ''The use of this weapon is an- other attempt by the enemy to at tack the morale of our civilian pop ulation in the vain hope that he may somehow by this means slave off the defeat which faces him in the field" Churchill said.
 Doubtless, the enemy has hoped by his announcement to induce us to give him information which he had failed to get otherwise. I am sure the house, the press and the public will refuse to obilge him in this respect"
 Question
 IAborite Will Thorn asked Churchill if it were possible to find out where these torpedo bombs start"
 Naturally, that is matter upon which our attention is concentrated and should satisfactory intelligence be received, no doubt appropriate measures will be taken" Churchill said.
 The Germans loosed another bar rage of robot bombs, presumably in cluding some rockets, against London and southern England, last night and early today and the Lon don Daily Express warned that the Nazi command was planning to subject the capital to 8 damaging and intensive bombardment" with V-2 bombs.
 There is no disposition to take the menace to London lightly" the Daily Express, owned by Cabinet Minister Lord Beaverbrook, said. Germany has been well served by her technicians in the past and the new weapon may present 8 big set of new problems"
 German broadcasts have said that the new V-2 rocket bombs, described by neutral sources as 30 to 50 feet long and carrying 8 ton or more of explosives, had been fired only spasmodically so far, but add ed they would be released in stead fly increasing numbers.
 Robot bombs which crashed in the London area and southern Fig land during the night and early morning wrecked an industrial building, killing three employees, and caused further damage to an already ruined castle. Other dam age and casualties also were report ed.