GIANT ROCKET

Evening Star, Issue 25782, 3 May 1946, Page 5

GIANT ROCKET

WILL SIGNAL OF VICTORY CELEBRATIONS LONDON LANDMARKS TO BE FLOODLIT (N.Z.P.A. Special Correspondent.) (Rec. 10 a.m.) LONDON, May 2. After the parade then fireworks. That is the programme for Victory Day in London, me morning parade of Empire troops through .London streets, with ttie Ring taking the salute in the Mall, will be followed by an acquatio display on the Thmames, then by a fireworks' dispiay, when it is intended to lire off the biggest rocket ever made to signal the end of the celebrations. It will oe a 25in diameter shell, which on bursting, will develop a light of 40,000,000 candle-power. The King and Queen, accompanied by the Princesses, will start the evening celebrations by sailing in the Ad* miralty barge from Chelsea to the landing stage in Westminster. Their arrival at 10 p.m. will bo the signal to start the two-hour water pageant. Twenty coloured searchlights will light up the sky and for 15 minutes 1,000 London will be “properly lit up” lights. Thirty-five of London’s prinffreworks will be let off. with 66 searchlights and 2,545 flood* cipal landmarks, including Buckingham Palace, Nelson’s Column, and St. Paul’s Cathedral will be illuminated. Aircraft of Bomber Command, flying at 6,000 ft, will be picked out by searchlights. In the Thames there will be 20 warships of the Royal Navy, all illuminated with thousands of coloured lights. The floodlighting will be done with novel effects. Red, green, amber, purple, gold, Blue, and white will bo used. Buckingham Palace will be floodlit with purple, the Admiralty Arch in pale blue, the colouring for'St. James’s Palace will be mostly red. The fountains in Trafalgar Square will have underwater floodlights in red, white, and blue.. White will be the colour for Westminster Abbey, red for Lambeth Palace, white for Windsor Castle. The arrangements for the celebrations include extra rations for organised public parties. A camp in Ken-' sington Gardens now being erected by Berman prisoners will provide accommodation for 16,000 Empire troops.