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Newspaper's Criticism of Mock Air Raids LONDON, Aug. 12. Tlie "complaccncy" of the Air Ministry over the results of the reeenfc mock air raids on London, is assailed by the Evening News. Its own statement, the paper says. is a grim warning of the weakriess of the capital's defenees. The Air Ministry reported on the first phase of the exercises that only 20 per cent. of the bcmbers got through without being attaeked, and that 25 of the 36 raids on inilitary ob.iectives lailed. in those figures, the Evening News says tnere is no reason whatever l'or satisfaction. They mean notiing like safety for London. They mean grave danger. They mgan that, in tlie event of an attacx on London by 1000 hos- . tile bombers, 200 would *geb tlirougli and 230 bonfbers could wreak a great deal of havoc. They mean, further, tbat of 36 vit-. ally important dei'eusive points around London — aerodromes, munition works, barracks and gun einplacements — 11 would be put out of action, and near]y one-tbird of tbe total nieans of deience would be lost in oue big raid alone. It needs a supernaturally complacent mentality, tbe paper adds, to be pleased uvitb tlie results.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 183, 20 August 1937, Page 6
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