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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
August 24, 1939.
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When The Lights Went Out
In Piccadilly Singing "Show Me The Way To Go Home"
By A "Star" Reporter
LONDON'S part in the great black-out was more com- plete and more successful than experts at the Home Office A.R.P. department ever hoped for. This fact emerged when the work began of sifting half a million reports from police, wardens, air pilots, defence units and special observers.
Outstanding was the interest and co-operation shown by all sections of the public. SEEING FOR
THEMSELVES
Most impressive moment in 1am- don was when all the lights of Piccadilly elleked out on the stroke of half an hour after midnight. The erowds were strangely silent as they maved upwards at the searchlights sweeping the mackerel clouds.
Sir John Anderson, Britain's A.R.. chief, and Lord Chatdek,
A party of young bloods seized Minister for the Co-ordination of some red lamps and placed them on Defence, spent nearly the whole time the road amount the cars but inen between 12.30 and fun driving and women standing on the steps of roural London seeing for themselves, Eros walked forward and replaced and more than once mixing with them in position.
grips of sightseers and toning t
NEWSPAPERS TO their conversation.
They are convinced that the block- aut has demonstrated effectively Hat London can merge itself completely into the darkness of the surrounding countryside. CHANGES IN
FUTURE
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COVER LIGHTS
ly illuminated shop window shone nut like a lighthouse,
y mistake, Ludgate Hill, Holborn Vinduct, and Snow Hill, almost op- posife the City police station, were brillantly illuminated by street
amps until 1.15 am.
One motorist stopped in Romford | because he had his headlight on, wald he did not feel safe as he ap- peared to have been running over cats all the way.
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In Seven Sisters-rond. Holloway, the effect was broken by a shop where all the lights had been left on.
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In the L.C.C. fire brigale urca during the four hours of darkness there was: 3010 calima false alarm from the Wandsworth area, Scotland Yard report wo major accidents or rabberjes.
Thousands of workers on night shift at Woolwich Arsenal spent the black-out period in canteens and other buiklings which had been specially screened, The only lights visible for miles were those on electricity pylons below Woolwich,
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Dulwich had one of the longest blackouts in Coruium.
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A crowd on the Crystal Palace
There were no wild scenes. Mem-Parade. Upper Norwood, sang com- lees of the public helped the police (munity songs and war-time choruses. and wardens by knocking up estab-
Hi: honents which showed bights in * the windows, stopping motorists who i ted headlamps, covering with new:- super lights that couldn't be turad
Some people wen round sing- jur "Show mir thir way to KO home."
Future tepta will
several change, however, Sir John ex-out.
the number uf pressed surprise at
allway lights. showing up clearly and the power of many car site. Bghts. They will both have to be toned down next time.
SKYLIGHT
FORGOTTEN
Motorists
An A.R.J. warden at Kilworth Beauchamp. Leicestershire, Was dashing along a country lane to answer an urgency ent, and wÓN chased and captured by a polleeman who mistook him for wanted man.
In Western-road, Hove, a mun and womans collided is the darkness, and had to receive Brst aid treatinent.
So far as ordinary householdet:
Commented 011 that were encerned, they went to great ement way in which whils-coated Work was slowed up at Covent lenges to shickt their lighted win-
market. Policemen controlled trafie with the Garden. London's greatest vegetable, dows. Hotels, shops and
aid of coloured torchlight or small inuit and fowler market, but there also played their part well.
wwe little delay at Billingsgate, Altogether, 27,000 square miles of table tealle indicators.
towid, however, that more England were blacked-out, and it was the peared approach to an ant kerbs need to be painted white, that
Shipping in the Thames uned on bicycles are attack that fritain has known inte the rest reflectors
useless with side lights only to umasked masthead lights. the war.
minate them.
DEFENCE UNITS
ENTHUSIASTIC
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London Transport said to-day. Wardens report that the lights which householders most frequentlyAll services, although running slow- normally. There were no outstanding events, and our drivers, In late rinutes, reported that drivinggi conditions were good considering the |
| forgot were skylight in robĪS,
THEY SAW
THE SKY
Ground defence units, observes and A.R.P. workers are enthusiastic over the value of the exervice.
Throughout the four hours they watched the skies for bombers which | draped across from France and the North Sra to attack vifat renties.
Early reports show that hours interceptor planes and the 500 bat-
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The attacking planes who suc-circumstances,” creded in running the gauntlet of jeonatal and inner searchlight rings.
A warden stopped W3OOTRES motorist at Edmonton and told her
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France's Mystery Man
Makes Spying 'Suicide'
PARIS.
and the penalty is death' (PIES and traitors caught SPIES
in France know that they woman failed and had to receive may face the firing squad at
dawn, even in peace time.
attention from Brst-ald men.
Le
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that a "gas attack" was 0. defenders. Britain's loons muning London were few in- brating anti-aircraft un, working level with the searchlights, balloon bar- rage and interceptor planes would have wrought have amongst the raiders had they been in earnest.
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Many said that the most interest- me sight was the starry sky-anal- ly spott for Londonds by the glare af powerful lights.
Left Her Lights
As A Protest
NE woman left the lights of her fat and offices overlook- ing Trafalgar-square full on and windows unprotected during the whole of the black-out.
People from the street shouted, and pollee visited the flat.
Mrs. Beryl Eastwood, founder of the Land Rent Parly to Abolish : Taxes, sald that she left the Hights on as a protest against the "shock- ing expenditure of pubile money out of rates and taxes,""
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AWARDEN knocked the
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door of a house in East Croydon where ground floor lights were burning. The door
by was opened
in Pyjamas.
"At last we have caught the little beast," said the mun, hold- ing in one hand a mouse trap and the other a dend moure.
From Urate Archway a row of bright lights could be seen which A Ferme Park siding, Hornsey, appeared to be in the Camden Town shunting was-for safety's salce district. carried out with almost normal lighting.
Mr. Turnbull Defies
The Black-out
Mr. George Turnbull defied Use black-out of Brighton.
With his son, Mr. Turnbull carries on a restaurant in Duke-strect in the heart of the town. near the Clock Tower.
"We had extinguished the elretrie sim and also the hanging lights in
The other the restaurant window. lights had blue air-rald lights litted, After the black-out had started the police came in and said I was show- ing too much light.
"My restaurant on both floor; was full of people and I told the offers I was not going to put any more Hghts off. ad 1 done su my eus-- tomers would not have been able to We had her what they were eating. been so busy that there had been no time to x the curtains.
"Later the chief constable came to see me, but 1 refused to aller my
In Shaftesbury-avenue a brillion!- (decision."
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Few of them, however, realise how efficient are the military and civit counter-espionage de- partments, which make spying in France to-day almost certain suicide.
Erwer still have heard of the "mystery man" who, sitting at an ornate desk in a large room at the Ministry of National Defence bullil- Ing. has his fluger on the pulse of anti-French activities in France and throughout her Empire.
He alone! Gauche, chlet of France's Second Bureau military in- telligence service, which was found- ed by Napoleon io 1804.
cnunter-espionage, 105 agents are situated all over the world, and
rarely are brought into the spotlight publicity, and arrests on French soil are enfried out by the Surete Nationale, or municipal detectives.
"It is only in this way that wo can keep our military agents arceel,” the ofllelal explained. "When we have carefully checked on an enenly spy's movements and work, we hand the whole dossier over to the Surete Nationale,"
The bureau dnes most of the de-
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very morning when M. Georges Bonnet, the Foreign Minister, sits R2883. down at his desk, a pile of reports on green paper is placed before him. R2004. They comprise decoded messages. telegrams and transcripts of "tapped" telephone calls and radio trans- missions.
Case of Mata Hari
The bureau claims that its decod. ing service is one of the most efficient in the world.
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It was a radio msesage from the The offices of the Second Bureau German Foreign Ofice to the Ger- F1408. are guarded by electric alarm signals, man military attache in Spain, inter- Four entries are also on duty nightcepted by the. Second Bureau, which und day. Every man working for
arrest and subsequent the bureau takes an oath of silence, execution of Mata Hari, the duncer and his background and ancestry are investigated.
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When war was declared in 1914 Secret documents and files are the Second Bureau produced from its kept in a bomb-proof subterranean
Alles a list of more than 1500 enemy hall with ateci-lined walls three gents, who were at once arrested.
The staff of the Second Bureau in feet thick. Only a few trusted officials know the Ministry of Defence has more the combbiations that open the enfes than doubled in the past ten year and vaults. Even the leather en-Espionage has greatly increased in velopes In which dossiers are kept France in the past few years. are locked.
The Second Burca 19 an emergency electrical plant so that it can keep radio and other electrical services going in case of local breakdown.
Five Departments
How To Be Happy
In Old Ago
-By Duke of Portland Fourleen Illuminated addresses,
Following the crisis Just September the chiefs of the Intelligence Ser- vice urged that joint Anglo-French expressing the goodwill and affee- military intelligence service should tion of all classes, were presented be created, under unifled leadership. to the Duke and Duchess of Port-
land at Welbeck Abbey recently,
The occasion was the publle ecle- Colonel Gauche, it is believed, bration of the Golden Wedding of favours an extended Anglo-Ameri- the Duke and Duchess. Delegates cun-French counter-espionage ser-from almost every organisation in vice with headquarters in London, Nottinghamshire ond 2,000 ather similar to a service created during friends attended. the Great Wor.
"Until I was married," the Duke The
United States has found that told his guests in reply to their con- It is not Immune from spy activities," gratulations, "I was content to act
official salu,
it up to the inotto live and let live," "therefore would be to the interest of all three but since that happy event, follow countries to establish a common anti-ing my wife's example. I have tried
to add the words 'I help to live," spy service.
"One does not mind the passing of years," added the Dulce. who is 02. "when the affection of one's friends remains."
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Actually there are Ave Second Bureaux: Four are in the Navy, Air, Colonial and Foreign Ministries, und nl there are centralised in Colonel Gauche's department.
A pageant descriptive of the his Oletally the Second Bureau is not fory of Welbeck Abbey was pres legally charged with carrying out (sented.
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