SHOPPERS TOO CALM
BIG AIR RAID TEST EXPERIMENT AT CHELSEA LONDON, June 23. Too many people regarded their shopping as more important than tihe big air-raid, test at Chelsea, to-day. That was the view expressed afterward by Wing-Commander Hodsall, who was satisfied, however, with the experiment generally. Made in dayilighit, the raid gave tihe 70,000 residents' of Chelsea a realistic glimpse of war-time.
Sirens Shrieked a warning that enemy aeroplanes had penetrated the defences. All traffic came to a stop, and people loft ib-uses and motor cars and- pu!t on overalls and steel helmets.
Wardens marshalled 6500 pedestrians at 126 assembly points in the vicinity of buildings scheduled as war-time shelters, capable of accommodating 11,000 persons. Nine bombs were simulated' by maroons in, seven minutes, causing supposed casualties, destroying buildings and blocking roads. Ambulance men, anti-gas- squads, and rescue squads became active, and auxiliary firemen raced in motors to rt.'DOixed outbreaks.
Officials, including Sir Philip Game, Police Commissioner. and Admiral Sir Edward Evans, who if. commissioner for the defence of the London area, watched the experiment.
Most of the public accepted dp la vs and inconveniences well.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19980, 4 July 1939, Page 5
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