MANY LIVES LOST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 158, 5 July 1940, Page 6

MANY LIVES LOST.

WHO GOES THERE?

SENTRIES NOT HEEDED. STANDARD SIGNAL WANTED. (Br Air Mail.) LONDON", July 1. Because many people have lost their lives through not heeding the challenge* of sen-tries, there has grown up a widespread demand for a standardised signal from sentries calling on motorists to stop. "The Times," in a leader, points out, however, that a standardised signal might aid Fifth Columnists and air invaders, but insists that unstandardised signals are rather dangerous. "Dimmed headlights circumscribing the light force drivers to concentrate on the road,' , "The Times" "and engine ikus?, combined possibly with a high wind, prevents the driver from hearing an unseen sentry's challenge. It is unreasonable that life should be jeopardised in this way when the purpose of the control ie simply to halt cars for examination. Improvised signals have gone on long enough, and from now on signals should be such as any reasonably careful driver could not miss."

The latest victim of a sentry is Mr. D. B. Calder, manager of a Fifeshire quarry, and a veteran of the last war. He was shot dead when he failed to stop his car at a sentry's challenge.