BLACK-OUT BREACHES
DEFENDANTS BLAME CATS.
LONDON, August 2
“Fifth Column” cats, whose mischievousness caused breaches of black-out regulations, led their owners to police courts on the same day. The wife of a man " accused of showing a light, said that the cat frequently and deliberately turned on the light. It was still sitting under the switch when the A.R.P. inspector callpd. The magistrate said that the cat was obviously a Fifth Columnist and defendant had better be careful. The other defendant said that, to comply with, the lighting rules, she had had wooden shutters made for the windows. When. she went out the cat opened the shutter and the light showed. Nominal fines were imposed in both caccs.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 August 1940, Page 7
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