OFFICER'S BRIGHT LIGHT.
An officer in the Army Service Corps was Fummoned at th<> Enfield Petty Sessions under the Defence of the Bealm Act for having a brilliant light cn his promises on Sei)tembcr 2nd. A police constable stated that at half-past ten o'clock on the night prior to the last great air raid ho noticed a ray of light -!oyds in length coming from a -room at The Grange, which ie only two miles from Cuffley, where the airship was brought down.
The defendant said that on September 2nd he returned home on • leave, after three months' active service. As he found the room oppressive he opened the -window, and this blew the curtains apart. He had not been used to sleeping in a private house for some time. Colonel Bowles, chairman, in fining defendant a guinea, taid lie could svm* pathise with him. adding that when he "\v;;s a voting man undergoing trailing he found the rooms of a private house very close after a spell of camp and barrack life.
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Press, Volume LII, Issue 15750, 17 November 1916, Page 4
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173OFFICER'S BRIGHT LIGHT. Press, Volume LII, Issue 15750, 17 November 1916, Page 4
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