TO TRICK PARACHUTISTS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 184, 10 July 1940, Page 2

TO TRICK PARACHUTISTS

MILESTONES AND SIGNPOSTS GO Britain is to become a country without names. Signposts have gone, milestones have been dug up, and thrown into undergrowth or have had the names of them chipped away. Railway stations, post offices and telephone exchanges are also to be deprived of their names. Critics of these sweeping precautions say it is not worth while to remove direction signs, because para chutists would carry maps. But the authorities are not convinced, and are continuing to make Britain as nameless as possible. The Daily Telegraph's motoring writer defies anyone, even one well acquainted with Britain, to find his way by map, unless the map is at least half an inch to the mile, and on that scale it takes 37 sheets to cover England and Wales. Even the most Teutonic papa chutist won't be provided with a map like that. Shop Front Guide. Moreover, he won't know, within a county or two, where he will be dropped. Even if he landed with the right map he would still have to orientate i!t. Only if he wandered into a village and saw its name blazoned across the main stores, could he orientate the map, and start on his errand of destruction. An amendment of the Companies Act, to enable garage, shop, factory, and company to delete the place names from' their titles, is, therefore, overshadowed.