GREAT BRITAIN: Interesting, If Not True

Rumors that London had been heavily bombed and was going up in flames were current all over rural Great Britain in the first weeks of World War II. Today, with less news than usual in Britain's habitually restrained newspapers, the King's subjects continue to trade heavily in rumors, and last week the following—entirely untrue—were widely believed:

> That the reason German air raids have not been more successful is that Britain is using a secret magnetic device so strong that it jerks all steel parts out of approaching enemy planes, causing them to...

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