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23.8.40 [George Orwell]

August 23, 2010 in Flanders, Home Guard, Notebook, Osterley Park, Political, Russia, Samuel Butler, Trotsky, War-time, air raid, alarm system, blimp, communists, german, lecture, planes by orwelldiaries

This morning an air-raid warning about 3 a.m. Got up, looked at the time, then felt unable to do anything and promptly went back to sleep again. They are talking of rearranging the alarm system, and they will have to do so if they are to prevent every alarm from costing thousands of pounds in wasted time, lost sleep, etc. The fact that at present the alarm sounds all over a wide area when the German planes are only operating in one part of it, means not only that people are unnecessarily woken up or taken away from work, but that an impression is spread that an air-raid alarm will always be false, which is obviously dangerous.

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