ATLANTIC COAST
IMMEDIATE DIMMING OF LIGHTS ORDERED BY AMERICAN ARMY MEASURE OF SAFEGUARD FOR SHIPPING. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.40 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 28. Major-General Phillipson, Comancler of the Second Corps area, has ordered an immediate dimming of lights throughout the fifteen-mile-wide belt along the coast of New York, New Jersey and Delaware, including the* obscuring of all lights above the fifteenth storey of New York City buildings. Tl?e regulation is designed to protect shipping from being silhouetted against the coastal glare, which is visible thirty miles out to sea. It is the first Army order since the entire Atlantic seaboard was designated the Eastern Military Area.
General Phillipson gave warning that complete blackouts would be instituted for communities failing to comply with the dimming-out regulation. A similar regulation is being carried out along the entire coastline, from Maine to Florida.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 April 1942, Page 3
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145ATLANTIC COAST Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 April 1942, Page 3
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