NIGHT BOMBING
PROBLEM BEING STUDIED IN BRITAIN HOPES OF BETTER DEFENCES. SCIENTISTS HARD AT WORK. LONDON, September 24. It is authoritatively stated that Britain’s best scientific brains are concentrating on the task of beating the night bomber, and the practical application of the recent improvements in the defence measures already justifies the hope of fulfilment of the prophecy of the Air Secretary, Sir Archibald Sinclair, that the pleasure of night bombing will cease to be attractive to Goering. Scientists are studying the problem from several directions—improved anti-aircraft fire, higher balloon barrage and searchlights, and speedier fighter interception. New inventions are being searchingly investigated, but contrary to rumour no entirely new weapon has yet emerged. It would be a mistake to concentrate on finding a solution that would be applicable only in certain conditions, and the defenders’ aim is to make the reception so hot in all weathers that even indiscriminate bombing will become so profitless and dangerous that it will be strictly confined.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 September 1940, Page 5
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163NIGHT BOMBING Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 September 1940, Page 5
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