The southern part of England slips into the water when the thing the pilot drops...

"I see three armoured columns advancing from the east to the west, as far as the Rhine and the Ruhr; they reach it in a single day. From the east it teems with caterpillars (tanks), one almost squeezing the other. "

"Three white aircraft drop a yellow substance; a line forms from Prague to the bay. Where it falls nothing lives any more — no man, no animal, no tree; everything turns black and withers. "

"Three great cities will be ruined: one destroyed by water, the second standing so deep in the sea that only the church tower is visible, and the third collapses. "

"The Third World War will begin in the Balkans: the murder of a great man will be the spark, and armies from the East will roll west as far as the Rhine. "