SYDNEY BLACK-OUT
TEST OVER WIDE AREA TRANSPORT HALTED lElec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Aug. 18, noon.) SYDNEY, Aug. 18. The whole of the metropolitan area of Sydney experienced its first complete black-out last night between 9.30 and 10 p.m. when an area of 20 miles to the north, south and west, together with the city proper, were plunged into sudden darkness at the signal of hundreds of screaming sirens. To a majority of citizens the experience was entirely new and eerie. It led to a complete dislocation of the transport systems. Drivers of trams, trains, buses and cars acting on the principle of safety first “stayed put” in jet blackness for the full halfhour. Formations of aeroplanes crossed the starlit sky during the black-out, observing the results of the experiment, which was regarded as eminently successful. It is said to have done more to impress householders with the grim realities of war than everything yet tried by politicians.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20637, 18 August 1941, Page 4
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