AIR RAID “BLACK-OUT”
FIRST TEST HELD IN ENGLAND. . -' 7 ■ ' "■I; - ' ■ REVERSION TO WAR CONDITIONS. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 6.45 p.m. London, June 1. Britain’s first air raid “black-out" was conducted at 11.30 p.m., when 130,000 inhabitants in the neighbouring towns of Chatham, Rochester and Gillingham suddenly reverted to wartime conditions. War planes flew over, sirens shrieked and warning rockets soared. A hundred square miles, including the Chatham dockyards, were thrown into darkness, the police ensuring voluntary observances of the improvised regulations.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 June 1935, Page 5
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