GERMAN AIR RAIDS
PRACTICE WITH DEFENCES. BERLIN SUBURB “RAIDED.” By Telegraph--Press Assn. —Copyright. Berlin, March 20. Squadrons of heavy bombers and fast mobile scouting planes carried out a daylight air raid rehearsal from 9 a.m. till 3 p.m. in the small but populous suburb of Kreuzberg, which was entirely isolated. No one was allowed to enter or leave the area. After the syrens had hooted a warning the streets were deserted, men, women and children scurrying to ’shelters which they were not allowed to leave till the raid was finished. They were not even allowed to put their heads out of windows. ’ . Meanwhile fire-fighting and life-saving squads practised extinguishing supposed fires and rescuing people from bombed buildings.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 March 1935, Page 4
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