"RAIDS" ON LONDON
EXERCISES NEXT WEEK
TWO -MAIN PHASES
(Bi'lUsli Ofllctnl Wireless.) (Received July 20, 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, July 19. The annual air defence exercises will begin next Monday evening with a raid by day-bombers belonging to the "Southland" forces on London, which will be defended by fighters of the "Northland" forces. The operations, in which" over 370 aircraft—dayand night-bombers and single-seater and two-seater . fighters—will take part, will be carried out in two main phases, the first lasting for fourteen hours and the second commencing on Tuesday evening arid continuing for over sixty hours, during which there will be one period of forty-eight hours' continuous exercises.
A daylight raid on Monday will be followed by a night attack in which the latest types of bombers will be used. All the main targets will be in the London area, since the, exercises, as in former years, are concerned with the problem of air defence of the capital.
The ground organisation of the defence, which will include anti-aircraft batteries, searchlights, and 'sound-de-tecting apparatus, will be strengthened by Territorial units.
Under the arrangement announced on June 15 last, eight London battalions of Territorials have agreed to their conversion into anti-aircraft defence units. \ ■.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 18, 20 July 1935, Page 9
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199"RAIDS" ON LONDON Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 18, 20 July 1935, Page 9
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