AIR RAID WARNING
SECRET COLOUR CODE USED. TEST BY BRITISH POST OFFICE. FOUR MESSAGES DISTRIBUTED. (United Press Association--Copyright.) (Received This Day, 12.15 p.m.) LONDON, October 31. Peers and members of Parliament, on returning to the Houses of Parliament to-morrow, "will find that all the rooms on the ground floor have been made gasproof, and the doors lined with rubber.
The General Post Office conducted a test in communicating warnings of airraid through the country by means of a secret colour code. In all 2475 exchanges received the message and passed it on to local police stations, fire brigades, air wardens and others. Four colours were used, the first meaning “enemy ’planes approaching the east,” the second “attack in progress,” the third “raiders passed,” and the fourth “all clear.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 18, 1 November 1938, Page 5
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