“RAIDS” ON LONDON
ANNUAL AIR EXERCISES TWO MAIN PHASES. [ British Official Wireless. J RUGBY, July 19. The annual air defence exercises will begin next Monday evening with a raid by day-bombers belonging to the “Southland” forces. The operations, in which over 370 aircraft —day and night-bombers and sngle-seatcr and two-seater fighters—will take part, will be carried out in two main phases, the first lasting for 14 hours and the second commencing on Tuesday evening and continuing for over 60 hours, during which there will be one period of 48 hours’ 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 in former years, are concerned with the problem of air defence of the capital. The ground organisation of tho defence, which will include anti-aircraft batteries, searchlights, and sound-de-tecting apparatus, will be strengthened by Territorial units. Under the arrangement announced on June 15 last, eight London battalions of Territorials have agreed to their conversion into anti-aircraft, defence units.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 169, 22 July 1935, Page 7
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