BRITISH DEFENCES
PART OF AIR SCHEME
BELT OF LIGHT ACROSS SKY!
LONDON, November 30. The "Sketch" says that one of tha main features of the air defence plan, is' the- provision of facilities for throwing a belt of. light in any miles wide across the sky from1 the south coast ! over London to the east coast.. Giant bombers trapped in this would be easy prey to 300-mile-an-hOui inter-, ceptor machines, which have been,' : ordered in large numbers. , A- cable dated November 21 said that, the perfection' of a system of wartime precautions: by means of which' the whole of England would know within, seven minutes whenl air-raiders had i crossed the coastline was announced by the Home Office. London, the east and north-east coasts, the: industrial 'areas, and- the Midlands would- be virtually blacked out against the raiders. iThe plans included a rapid evacuation :of. slums: and dense- areas.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 132, 1 December 1936, Page 9
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