CAMOUFLAGE PARIS.
PARIS Oct. 6. llow this city would have been protected against air attacks if the war had ijot ended when it did is now disclosed. Camouflage, of which the French were masters on land, would have been used to build a. false Paris north of the capital. Railway lines, factories of woodwork and canvas electric light, all would 1 ave been built to represent St Denis the northern suburb. Paris itself would have been reproduced near the Forest of St Germain. The plans were prepared by M. Jacopozzi, an engineer. The intermittent glow from steel foundries was to he imitated by Btage devices. When aeroplanes approached, the real Paris would have remained in darkness and an artificial mist would have risen above the Seine. At the false Paris the alarm would liavo been sounded and lighting gradually reduced, though main tained brilliantly enough to form a good mark for hostile aeroplanes. When bombs dropped artificial fires would have been produced to encourage the airmen in their belief that they had just hit their objective.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19201213.2.4
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1920, Page 1
Word count
Tapeke kupu
176CAMOUFLAGE PARIS. Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1920, Page 1
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in