PROTECTION OF SHIPPING
COASTAL LIGHTS TO BE DIMMED IN U.S. NEW YORK, April 28. Major-General Irving J. Phillipson, Commander of the United States Second Corps Area, has ordered the immediate dimming of lights throughout a 15 miles wide belt along the coast of New York, New Jersey, and Delaware, including the obscuring of all lights above the fifteenth storey on New York city buildings The regulations are designed to protect shipping from being silhouetted against the coastal glare which is visible for 30 miles out to sea. It is the first army order since the entire Atlantic seaboard was designated the Eastern Military Area. Major-General Phillipson gave a warning that complete black-outs would be instituted for communities failing to comply with the dimming out regulation. A similar regulation is being brought into effect on the entire coastline from Maine to Florida.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23625, 30 April 1942, Page 6
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