22 MARCH 1940, Page 6

Some of the A.R.P. exercises arranged periodically in different regions

are going like wildfire. In one I have just heard of, a key-man in his area was waiting for the expected telephone-call. It came. He dashed to the instrument, got his preliminary instructions, banged the receiver back—but not where it ought to be, so that the apparatus was forthwith immobilised—seized his bicycle, pedalled off to set his second-in-command moving, flung down the machine outside the gate, where it was promptly stolen, and found himself as immobilised as his telephone. But never was there greater