AIR RAID MENACE
BRITISH PRECAUTIONS P.LACK-OUT PLANNED LONDON, June 28. England will have its greatest “air raid black-out” on August 9. Jhe area to be plunged into darkness extends I'ro.m the Wash (Lincolnshire) through London to the Channel, ana 'lien west as far as Bournemouth. It wiil be the climax to the greatest campaign yet attempted to teach prorate how to act in an an laid. The area comprises 20,000 square ■mires, wV.'h a population of 20,000,000. Factories will be darkened and street lights extinguished. The air defence organisations will be at action stations, and the Royal Air Foice squadrons will search for the slightest glimmer of light likely to help enemy raiders. Arrangements have been made lor 50,000,000 leaflets to be distributed earlv in July, telling of the dangers and duties -during air raids. The British Broadcasting Corporation will continue its dramatic air raid productions, in which the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, is interested. Listeners will bear announcers say that the international situation has suddenly deteriorated, hear sirens screech, bombs crash and guns boom.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19982, 6 July 1939, Page 14
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176AIR RAID MENACE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19982, 6 July 1939, Page 14
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