Cairo, May 15.
ix hours of a "state of war" for big air-raid exercises began this morning with the British and Egyptian Air Forces ce-operating.
Troops, with war equipment and fixed bayonets, have taken up strategic positions in the city. Antiaircraft guns and searchlights have been manned, while machine-guns have been placed on the roofs of private houses in preparation for a raid by squadrons of Royal Air Force bombers, who will take off in the western part of the city and be opposed by fighter planes.
Tonight a blackout will be enforced over an area of 400 square miles. River transport is being mobilized for a test evacuation of the popula-
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