“STATE OF WAR" IN PORTSMOUTH
SEVERE TEST OF AIR DEFENCES IMPORTANT EXPERIMENTS ORGANISED United Press Association—Bv Electric Telegraph—Copyright • Received July 16. 8.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 16. Portsmouth and surrounding districts were in a state of “war,” when the biggest experimental blackout in Britain was staged for the purpose of testing civil air defence under conditions approximating to warfare. Portsmouth, Southampton, the Isle of Wight, and other areas were in total darkness from midnight to 3 a.m. Cars were prohibited in the affected; area, and some factories stopped night work to co-operate in the air raid. Air raid followed air raid, the ’planes dropping “high explosives, gas, and incendiary bombs.” Many vital points at Portsmouth were “destroyed" in daylight raids carried out earlier in which the aircraft defences failed to check 25 ’planes swooping down and bombing the dockyards.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20782, 17 July 1937, Page 17 (Supplement)
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138“STATE OF WAR" IN PORTSMOUTH Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20782, 17 July 1937, Page 17 (Supplement)
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