BEAT AIR RAIDS
JAPAN’S DARK DEFENCE.
DEMONSTRATION OF EFFICIENCY
Extraordinary demonstrations of efficiency to guard against possible air raids were witnessed in Japan by Captain W. Dawson Davie, formerly eonncclod with Ihe transport branch of the Defence Department, who returned by the Taiping, says a Sydney paper.
“Looking down from Ihe lop of one of llie laliesl buildings in Tokyo during a defence lest. 1 saw, in a oily of Ci. 300, non people, not one spot of liglil,” lie said.
“II is the most perfect organisation I have seen. From Ihe jnoment the siren sounds ils first air raid warning, Ihe entire city is plunged into darkness.
"While fiiO lights arc bunting inside a hotel, not a thread of illumination is lo lie seen, outside. Forty men rare around seeking tho tiniest, fault. "Japan’s ambition is not for war, however, and Ihe industrial section wants peace,” lie added. "The Japanese are not air-minded, for they do not possess the spirit of hold recklessness that contributes to it."
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Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19659, 20 August 1935, Page 10
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168BEAT AIR RAIDS Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19659, 20 August 1935, Page 10
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