MIMIC AIR RAIDS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22629, 22 July 1935, Page 9

MIMIC AIR RAIDS

ATTACK ON LONDON DEFENCE ORGANISATION (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 19. 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, will 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 bombers will be used. All the main targets will be in the London area, since the exercises, as iu former years, will be concerned with x the problem of the air defence of the capital. The ground organisation of the defence, which includes anti-aircraft batteries, searchlights and sound-detecting apparatus, will be strengthened by territorial units.