AMAZING PERFECTION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18661, 22 March 1935, Page 5

AMAZING PERFECTION

AIR RAID REHEARSAL GERMAN PRECAUTIONS MAGNIFICENT DISCIPLINE (Elec Tel. Copyright —United Tress Assn.) (Received March 22, noon) LONDON, March 21. Mr. Ward Trice, in the Daily Mail, says the Berlin air raid rehearsal was the most elaborate ever carried out, 50.000 residents participating in deadly earnest.

Sirens blared simultaneously with the appearance of the air raiders. Traffic stopped, and everyone rushed to underground shelters, deserting trams and buses. Maroons exploded, representing bombs. K.very kind of rescue service was engaged, police, fire ambulance, anti-poison gas, water, and gas main repair squads, and housebreaking gangs rescuing victims who were trapped in ruins of houses and schools.

"Bomb craters" appeared iu the streets, from which flames and water spurted from burst pipes. Asbestosclad masked squads rushed to extinguish gas tires, while others were working kee-dip in water repairing mains. Scores of "wounded" were earned in the streets, ''ghastly wounds" and bare limbs increasing the realism.

Steel-helmeted children raced to fire stations to report that their homes were ablaize.

Foreign air attaches were specially impressed by the people's magnificent discipline, and the vast amount of anti-air raid equipment available, contrasting with the smaller supplies in other capitals.

Hollywood could not have excelled the dramatic perfection of the picture of an air raid which Kreuzberg presented. It is impossible to imagine a corresponding area in London similarly isolated in hours.