DEFENCE OF LONDON
AIR DEFENCE EXERCISES ELABORATE PREPARATIONS (British Official Wireless.) Press Association —By Telegraph Copyright RUGBY, July 19. (Received July 20, at 12.30 p.m.) The annual air defence exercises will begin on 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, day and night bombers, and single-seater and two-seater fighters will take part, vail be carried out in two main, phases, the first lasting 14 hours, and the second commencing on Tuesday evening and continuing over 60 hours, during which there will be one period of 48 hours of continuous exercises.
A daylight raid on Monday will be followed by a night attack, in which the latest types of bomberc will be used. All the main targets will be in the London area, since the exercises, as in former years, will be concerned with the problem of the air defence of the capital.
The ground organisation of - the defencA which includes anti-aircraft batteries, searchlights, and sound-detect-ing apparatus, will be strengthened by territorial units.
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Evening Star, Issue 22086, 20 July 1935, Page 15
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186DEFENCE OF LONDON Evening Star, Issue 22086, 20 July 1935, Page 15
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