AIR DEFENCE TEST
Black-out at Portsmouth DOCKYARDS “BOMBED” By Telegraph,—Press Assn.— Copyright. (Received July 16, 8.45 p.m.) London, July 16. Portsmouth and the surrounding districts were in a “state'of war” when the biggest experimental black-out yet staged in the testing of the civil air defences under conditions approximating to warfare was made. Portsmouth, Southampton, the Isle of Wight and other areas (were in total darkness from midnight to 3 a.m. Cars were prohibited in the affected area. Some factories stopped night-work in their anxiety to co-operate in the air raid. The air raid followed the dropping of “high explosives, gas and incendiary bombs.” Many vital points at Portsmouth we're “destroyed.” Earlier daylight raids were carried out in which the anti-aircraft defences failed to check 25 planes swooping down and bombing the dockyards.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 249, 17 July 1937, Page 11
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132AIR DEFENCE TEST Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 249, 17 July 1937, Page 11
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