PORTSMOUTH'S DEFENCE
Experimental Black-out and Air-Raid LONDON, July 16. Portsmouth and surrounding districts were in a state of "war" when the biggest experimental black-out was staged, testing the civil air defence Under conditions approximating 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 in their anxiety to co-operate in the air raid. The air raid was followed by the dropping of "high explosives, gas and incendiary bombs. " Many vital points at Portsmouth were dcstroyed. Earlier daylight raids were carrie-.l out in which the anti-aircraft defences failed to check 25 'planes swooping down and bombing the dockyards.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 154, 17 July 1937, Page 14
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