LONDON IN WARTIME

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 249, 20 October 1939, Page 4

LONDON IN WARTIME

PlaC'K-0 If' DESCRIBED G.A S-\ 1A SK S. EY Kit YAYiililtE ' A description of London m wartime was given hi Wellington by Ail'; .0 ■ Ei Lee, manager ef some of the amusement rights at xiie Centennial Exhibition. Mr. Lee left Loudon by aeroplane three days after war broke out, London during a black-cut looked like’one big black space, said Air. Lee. Nothing could be seen. Cars were allowed only pin-print lights, which looked about the size of sixpence. They had to travel very slowl.v ; even then - collisions occurred, but there were no seiious accidents. Taxi drivers had difficulty in finding the numbers of houses. Everywhere people, wore to he seen with gas masks. - So strongly enforced were the regulations about the use of gas nrasks. that if"a person'were seen ' without one lie was ordered to go and get if. A most interesting sight was to see people in evening dress curry- . ing their gas jnaskC. AYaiters them "in tin containers' at their waists, -s- Air. Lee»said the New Zealand exhibition would he the-first one outside the British Isles which he had attend-'-; cd. Naturally the war had taken tiro edge off things, but if the-situation settled, down a little by Christmas the amusoment park should lie a paying proposiion. —$