DEFENCE OF BERLIN
e Preparing for Air-Raid Test RULES FOR CITIZENS i By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright LONDON, March 15. The “Chronicle's” Berlin correspondent says: Women crowded drapery stores buying heavy cloth to darken their windows during the mass air attack which General Goering has organised for the night of March 17, when the city's air defences will resist a supposed at tack of hundreds of bombers significantly approaching from the direc- | tion of Russia. Newspapers publish live columns of regulations which citizens must observe. They provide imprisonment for persons appearing at windows to watch gas masked firemen, Red Cross workers and troopers. Ou March 20 traffic in one district will be brought to a standstill, and offices, shops and houses will be closed from 9 a.m. till 3 p.m. Meanwhile a dozen air bases ar° springing up in a ring for sixty miles round Berlin. Seaplane bases are being developed on the Baltic coast, ard cellars, invisible from above, are being built to store ammunition and petrol.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 79, 16 March 1935, Page 7
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