LONDON IN WARTIME

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20055, 29 September 1939, Page 12

LONDON IN WARTIME

BLACK-OUT DESCRIBED (.! ASM ASKS E Y Eli Y W HER E A description of London in wartime was given in Wellington by Mr. J. F. Lee, manager ol’ some ot the amusement rights at the Centennial Exhibition. Mr. Lee left London by aeroplane three days after war broke out. I London during a black-out looked like one big black space, said Mr. Lee. Nothing could be seen. Cars were allowed only pin-point lights, which looked about the size .of sixpence. They had to travel very slowly; even then collisions occurred, but there were no serious accidents, fa n drivel's had difficulty in* finding the numbers of houses. Everywhere people were to be essr. with gas masks. So strongly enforced were the regulations about the use of gas masks, that if a person were seen without one lie was ordered to go and get it. A most interesting sight was to see people in evening dress carrying their gas masks. Waiters carried them in tin containers at their waists. Mr. Lee said the New Zealand exhibition would be the first one outside the (British Isles which he had attended. Naturally the war had taken the edge off things, but if the situation settled down a little by Christinas the amusement park snouicl be a paying proposition.