CIVILIAN DEFENSE: San Francisco Begins to Tick

San Francisco College hit by bomb, casualties undetermined. . . .

Scott Street & Pacific Avenue—enemy planes dropping gas bombs. . . .

Japanese are starting fires and rioting.

Flares burning in Calvary Cemetery.

Bomb exploded in zoo, all animals are running loose. . . .

Most San Franciscans were peacefully finishing their dinner, starting for the movies, or settling down to the radio when these hair-raising messages were flashed into the city's air-raid report headquarters. Most San Franciscans never heard the messages. They went on about their evening with complete calm. The reports that poured into city-hall headquarters were merely practice. Police Chief Dulles...

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