Portsmouth’s Defence Tested
EXPERIMENTAL BLACK-OUT AND AIR-RAID United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyrlsmt. 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, tho Isle of Wight and other areas were in total darkness from midnight to 3 a.m. Oars were prohibited in the affected area, and some factories stopped night work in their anxiety to co-operate in he 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 swooping down and bombing the dockyards.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 168, 17 July 1937, Page 4
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