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September 23, 1939,

LONDON'S DEFENCE AGAINST ENEMY

ALL OVER THE WORLD

SPEY ROYAL WHISKY

The upper sketch, shows that one of the new 150-foot bombing plantes would have only a 50-50 chance of passing through the "etice" without striking une ut the lethal cables, which are so thin that they are invisible, both day and night, Con- act with one of the catṭies would mean destruction for the bomber, as depicted! In the lower sketch.

LONDON.

·Enemy planes which seek to rain bombs on London are going to have to devise some means of

beating what oppeurs

to be the

most effective air rald defence ever

world thrown around

capital,

Realising that the sky will be one of the major battlegrounds of the next war the British air ministry perfected E intricate and strategieal system to keep death-dealing bumbers away from

London.

The air ministry has encireled London with these balloons- spotted them strategically over the city-thereby fouung death dealing "fence" of cables stretch- ing upward possibly as high as 25,000 feet.

The hallots will be, raised and lowered on winches mounted on huge ray trucks, thereby mak- Ing it possible to shift their posi tion on short notice. The cables attached to the balloons are so thin that they cannot be seen from an attacking airplane.

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Iloping to render London and its environs immune from air attacks Great Britain has devised a balloon barrage defence. The drawing above shows one possible defensive system line of 1,100 balloons. attached to lethal cabies, and moored af 100-yard intervals encircling the city at 10-mile radius from the centre. Another possibility is a "feld atted" barrage, consisting of hundreds of balloons stationed at strategło points within the city limits.

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