BRITAIN’S AIR DEFENCE

Evening Star, Issue 22723, 10 August 1937, Page 9

BRITAIN’S AIR DEFENCE

THIS WEEK'S EXERCISES GREAT INTEREST AROUSED (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, August 7. Great interest is being taken in the air defence exercises which will take place at the beginning of next week and in the course of which for two continuous periods of 15 hours a series of air raids against selected targets an the outskirts of London will be made by 15 squadrons of light and medium bombers and three squadrons of heavy bombers, a total of 176 aircraft. Tho defence will be carried out by 19 lighter squadrons and by the antiaircraft guns and searchlights of the first anti-aircraft division of the Territorial Army, assisted by the observer corps. The total aircraft available far defence will be 222. The exercises are designed particularly to test tho ground organisation. EXERCISES BEGIN (British Official Wireless.) i RUGBY, August 9. (Received August 10, at 11 a.m.) Four hundred aircraft are engaged in air defence exercises over London, which began at 6 p.m. to-day and continued for 15 hours. They will be repeated to-morrow.