BALLOON BARRAGE
SATISFACTORY TEST MADE IN LONDON AIR MINISTRY STATEMENT. GOOD RESULTS IN ADVERSE WEATHER. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.22 a.m.) RUGBY, October 12. The results of the small-scale exercise, held by the London balloon barrage on Saturday are, the Air Ministry states, satisfactory and useful. Only a small number of balloons were flown from their war sites, but the majority of these sites were chosen as being most difficult from an operational point of view. Inflating and letting up were carried out without a hitch under unfavourable weather conditions.'
Although four balloons broke loose the cause was technical and simple of rectification
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 October 1938, Page 7
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105BALLOON BARRAGE Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 October 1938, Page 7
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