At Rochester two spectacular events were staged to best the protection. At 1240 a bomb was presumed to have: Jdropped into three old cottages. "Ao tually one end of the row was blown Jout by a charge of gelimnite. A Jdummy in the wreckage was extract~ Jed by the rescue squad and then Jabandoned for a live substitale which needed first ald. "A minute later mustard gas bomb, simulated by the smoke and stench of Z sas, was sup" paved to explode some distance away. Ht-was discovered by the alr raid warden and reported by him through} the police telephone circuit. Within few minutes a gas decontamination party was on its way, to deal with people injured by the gas and to spray the roud free of any remaining 1i-
The way "incidents" in the affected towns were tackled gave very com-'The forting proof of the ability of 2 bargely volunteer organization to cope with the consequences of heavy air attack. "Work was done rapidly and well: the dim emergency' lighting] systems proved adequate, and to 2 Targe extent the "black out" baffled the pilots of the attacking alrerat. Fiving without the ald of landmarks other. than' the winding courses the Thames and the Medway. they id_not, for example, cross directly Jover the vital target offered by Cha tham dockyard,
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