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Thursday,
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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
ly illuminated shop window shone
out like nighthouse.
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By mistake, Ludgate Hill, Holborn Viaduct, and Snow Hill, almost op- posite the Clly police station, were brilliantly illuminated by streel lamps until 1.15 am.
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One motorist stopped in Itomford because he had his headlight oa, kaid he did not feel safe as he ap. peared to have been running over rais all the way.
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In Seven Sisters-road, Holloway, broken by n shop
Office A.R.P. department ever hoped for. This facte effect was
emerged when the work began of sifting half a million
where all the lights had been left on.
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In the LC.C. fire brigado - uten
reports from police, wardens, air pilots, defence units during the four hours of darlmess and special observers.
Outstanding was the interest | and co-operation shown by all sections of the public. SEEING FOR
THEMSELVES
Most impressive moment in Lon- when all the lights of don was Piccadilly clicked out on the stroke of half an hour after midnight. The crowds were strangely silent as they Razed upwards at the searchlights sweeping the mackerel clouds.
Sir Jolin Anderson. Britain's A.R.P. chief, nr Lord
A party of young blocks seized Chatheid, Minister for the Co-ordination of
red Grane lamps and placed them on Defence, spent nearly the whole time the road among the cars but men between 12,30
and 4 am driving in women standing on the steps of ruund London seelut for themselves. Eros walked forward and replaced; and more then Ice ruixing with them in position. groups of sightseers and stening to
NEWSPAPERS TO their conversation.
COVER LIGHTS/ There were no wild scenes. Mem: bers of the public helped the police and wardens by knocking-up estab Urhments which showed fights In the windows, stopping motorists who used headlamps, covering with news- papers lights that couldn't be turned Some people went round sing- ing "Show me thr Way 10
They are convinced that the black- out has demonstrated effectively that. London can merge itself completely into the darkness of the surrounding
IN
Future
will Insta
bee several changes, however, Sir John pressed surprise at the number of railway lights showing up clearly
home." car side- and the power of many
GX-Gul
Bights. They will both have to be SKYLIGHT toned down next time.
FORGOTTEN
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So for as ordinary householders
Motorists einmented on the were concerned, they went to great lengths to shield their lighted win-cient way in which white-coated
dows.
there was one call-a falso alarin from the Wandsworth area. Scotland Yard report no major accidents or robberies.
Thousands of workers on night shift at Woolwich Arsenal spent the bluck-out period in canteens and viner buildings which had been specially screened. The only lights
miles were those visible for electricity pylons below Woolwich.
on
Dulwich had one of the longest blackouts In London.
A crowd on the Crystal Palace Parade. Upper Norwood, sang com-
unity songs and war-time choruses. į·
An A.R.P. wurden al Kibworth Beauchamp, Lekestershire, 1949 dashing along a country lane to answer an urgency call, and was chased and captured by a policeman who mistook him for wanted man.
In Western-road, Hove, a man and woman collided in the darkness, and had to receive first aid trea.ment.
Work was slowed up at Covent Garden, Loudon's greatest vegetable, fruit and flower market, but there was little delay a Billingsgate.
Shipping
the Thames
Hotels, shops and markets Policemen controlled traffic with the id of coloured torchlight or small also played their part well.
Altogether 27,000 square miles of portable traffle indicators. England were blacked-out, and it. They found, however, that more was the nearest approach to an air kerbs need to be painted white, that attack that Dritair has known since the red reflectors on bicycles are asked masthead lights.
jureless with side lights only to th
minate them.
the war.
DEFENCE UNITS
ENTHUSIASTIC
Ground defence units, observers and A.RP. workers are enthusiastic over the value of the exercise.
the
Throughout the four hours they watched the skies for bombers which droned across from France and the North Sen to attack vital centres.
Early reports show that honours defenders. Britain's went to bristling anti-aircraft guns, working with the searchlights, balloon bar- rage and interceptor planes would havoc amongst the have wrought ralders hat they been in carnest.
Wardens report that the lights which householders most frequently forgot were skylights in roofs. THEY SAW
In
usect
were no
London Transport said to-day. All services, although running, slow- ly, ran normally. There outstanding events, and our drivers, on late routes, reported that driving THE SKY
conditions were good considering the -The attacking planes who suc-circumstances."
the gauntlet of creded in running constal und inner searchlight rings, interceptor planes and the 500 hal- loons rimming London were few in- deed.
Many said that the most interest- ing sight was the starry sky-usual- ly spoilt for Londoners by the are of powerful lights.
Her Lights Her
Protest
She Left
On As A
ONE woman left the lights of
her flat and offices overlook- ing Trafalgar-square full on and windows unprotected during the whole of the black-out.
People from the street shouted, and police visited the flat.
Mrs. Beryl Eastwood, founder of The Land Rent Party to Abolish Taxes, said that she left the lights on as a protest against the "chock- ing expenditure of public money out of rates and taxes."
WARDEN knocked at the A
house in East door of n Croydon where ground floor The door lights were burning,
man .was opened by
pyjamas.
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"At last we have caught the little beast," said the man, hold- Ing in one hand a mouse trap and the other a dead mouse.
From Highgate Archway a row of Deen which bright lights could be At Ferme Purk siding, Hornsey, appeared to be in the Camden Town shunting was-for safety's sake distelet.
out
almost nomine! carried!
with -lighting.
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WOMATI A warden stopped motorisi at Edmonton and told her that a "gas attack" w On.
August 24, 1939.
Washington Lovelies Out For U.S. Title
Chosen at Washington Golden Jubilee-Seattle Potlach cele- bration wero Annamay Schoonover, left, as Miss King County, and Bevericy Weeks at Miss Seattle They'll compete at Atlantic Chy for Miss America title.
France's Mystery Man
Makes Spying 'Suicide'
SPI
PARIS.
counter-espionage. 1ts
agents arc situsted all over the world, and
and the penalty is death'rately are brought into the spotlight PIES and traitors caught of publicity, and arrests on French soll are carried out by the Surete in France know that they Nationale, or municipal detectives.
"It is only in this
that wo can keep our military agents secret." woman fainted and had to receive may face the firing squad at
the official explained, "When dawn, even in peace time.
have carefully checked on an enemy spy's movements and work,
attention from Orst-aid men.
Mr. Turnbull Defies
The Black-out
The
Few of them, however, realise how efficient are the military and civil counter-espionage de-
Mr. George Turnbull defled the partments, which make spying in France to-day almost certain black-out" of Brighton.
suicide.
With his son, Mr. Turnbull carries on a restaurant in Duke-street in the heart of the town, near the Clock Tower,
"We had extinguished the electric slyn and also the hanging lights In the restaurant window. The other lights had blue air-raid lights fitted, After the black-out had started the police come in and said I was show- ing too much light.
"My restaurant on both floors was full of people and 1 told the officers I was not going to put any more lights of. Hnd I done so.my cus- tomers would not have been able to see what they were eating. We had been so busy that there had been no time to fix the curtains.
"Later the chief constable come to see me, but I refused to alter my
In Shaftesbury-avenue a brilliant decision."
ALL OVER THE WORLD
SPEY
ROYAL
WHISKY
Fewer still have heard of the "mystery man" who, sitting at an ornate desk in a large room at the Ministry of National Defence build ing, has his finger on the pulse of anti-French activities in France and throughout her Empire.
He is Colonel Gauche, chief of Franco's Second Bureau military in- telligence service, which was found- ed by Napoleon in 1804.
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The bureau does most of the de- exting work for the Foreign Office. Every morning when M. Georges Minister, sits Donuet, the Foreign
of down at his desk, pile reports on green paper is placed before him. They comprise decoded messages, telegrams and transcripts of "tapped" telephone missions.
cally und rudio trans-
Case of Mata Hari
The bureau claims that its decod- ing service is one of the most efficient in the world.
It was a radio msesage from the The offices of the Second Bureau German Foreign Ofee to the Ger- are guarded by electrle alarm signals. man military attache in Spain, inter- Four sentries are also on duty night septed by the Second Burenu, which and day. Every man working for led to the arrest and subsequent the bureau takes an oath of silence, execution of Mata Hari, the dancer and his background and ancestry are spy. Investigated.
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When war was declared in 1914
the Second Bureau produced from its Secret documents and files are kept in bomb-proof subterraneau files a list of more than 1500 enemy hall with steel-lined walls three agents, who were at once arrested.
The staff of the Second Bureau in feet thick. Only P
few trusted officials know the Ministry of Defence has more the combinations that open the safes than doubled in the past ten years. and
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How To Be Happy
In Old Age
-By Duke of Portland Fourteen illuminated addresses,
Following the crisis last September the chiefs of the Intelligence Ser- vice urged that Joint Anglo-French expressing the goodwill and affec military intelligence service should tion of all classes, were presented be created, under unified leadership. | to the Duke and Duchess of Port-
land at Welbeck Abbey recently, Five Departments
The ocension was-the public cele- Colonel Gauche, it is believed, bration of the Golden Wedding of and Duchess. Delegates favours an extended Anglo-Ameri- the Duke
organisation in can-French counter-espionage ser-from- almost every
und 2,000 other vice with headquarters in London, Nottinghamshire similar to a service created during friends attended.
"Until I was married," the Duke the Great War.
"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 said, "therefore it up to the inotlo 'live and let live,' oMcial would
be to the interest of all tree 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 Actually there are Ave Second Bureaux: Four are in the Navy, Air. years," added the Duke, who is 82, Colonial and Foreign Ministries, and when the affection of one's friends! all these are centralised In Colonel fremains."
A pageant descriptive of the his- Gauche's department.
Offcially the Second Bureau is not lory of Welbeck Abbey was pre
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