LOOKOUT FOR BALLOONS
TRANSMISSION OF AIR PRESSURES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, February 7. Air raid precautions officials on the north-east coast were warned to keep a sharp lookout for toylike meteorological balloons. One has been picked up. Some contain radio apparatus and transmit air pressures to receiving stations on ships. The Air Ministry later stated that the balloons were British.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 February 1940, Page 5
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65LOOKOUT FOR BALLOONS Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 February 1940, Page 5
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