FOILING THE BOMBERS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 61, 11 September 1939, Page 5

FOILING THE BOMBERS

According tc a London statement last month camouflage experts were then completing a vast scheme for "paintingrout"' all obvious air-raid targets and making London look as little like London as possible. Tha writer says: Their first task is to ensure that R.A.F. stations and aeroplane factories are disguised. Then they will give advice to the owners of big fac. Tories which are likely to be landmarks for attacking bombers. Plans for the camouflage of Government and other buildings in London are secret, but, in general terms, tho scheme aims at making it very difficult for enemy airmen to find their bearings. It goes far beyond the men? painting of rooftops to make a build ing look like a piece of waste land. For example, if a munitions factory is "painted out'' so that no building is visible from the air. the surroundings wiU also be altered jvd that the whole lavont of the district i; unrecognisable from a plane. Power stations, gasometers, con. cn'runns bntlges and the very big in vulnerable areas "I 1 "n d"ff-nce points and ar- * r "••PI. all have thei" ' -" u the " * ' . *4.

I mentally back-tracked -along the I road but the eldest Dallie leant on his shovel, pushed back his hat, smiled broadly and quothed "Sure: me Roman Cath'le—all Dalmatian joker Roman Cath'le." With a muttered curse rider struck spurs to horse and pony—expressed away. He seemed the type to whom one can only explain a joke with a mallet.