PORTSMOUTH’S DEFENCE TESTED.
EXPERIMENTAL BLACK-OUT AND AIR-RAID (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright) Received Friday, 8.30 p.m. LONDON, July 16. Portsmouth and surrounding districts were in a state of “war” when the biggest experimental black-out was staged, testing the civil air defence under conditions ‘ approximating warfare. Portsmouth, Southampton, the Isle of Wight and other areas were in total darkness from midnight to 3 a.m. Cars were prohibited in the affected area, and some factories stopped night work in their anxiety to co-operate in the air raid.
The air raid was followed by the dropping of “high explosives, gas and incendiary bombs. ’ ’ Many vital points at Portsmouth were destroyed. Earlier daylight raids were carried out in which the anti-aircraft defences failed to check 25 ’planes swoopingdown and. bombing the dockyards.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 July 1937, Page 7
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