QUIETER LONDON.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 26 September 1918, Page 3

QUIETER LONDON.

LATE HOURS ABANDONED

At 1.30 I am in. Lelioeeter square ■(writes Mr George R. Sims in the Daily Clirojiu^e^describting London as it mow is between midnight and dawn). Tia© only wayfarers who pae» me by are tibre© young foreigners making their way home.. In Piccadilly Circus ther<e is only a policeman. BC« is standing back in a doorway. He looks after me as I page him by. There is no one else in the Circus for him to look after.. In ifoe years before the war at this hour I have seen these pavements crowded with men and women,' and Suave heard <a babel <»2 alien tonguee- And high lover all, following the stream of women that had at eloeing time poured out fxom certain cafes and night taunts, was the gutteral tongue of the Fatherland.. To-night not a skirt flutters fin the breeze., Neither the voice of man or woman reaches my ears. I walk up Regent street in the middle of the road. One taxi {Nome me each way, and that is all th« traffic to be seen or heard. I turn aside (for a moment, and linger under the blue lamp of Vine street police etation. In the old days at tnie tim« it was a busy scene, and the police came along at intervals' •with thelir midnight "bag" of erring Adams and fallen Eves. To-night Vine street is a Paradise, with no Adam and no Eve paceing through, the gates of which the guardian angel wears the uniform of i the law.

At 2 o'clock in the morning I am "Alone in Regent street," and I feel almost justified in thinking-of myself as the hero of Poet Buchanan's drama, "Alone in London." In Oxford street I meet two market carte lumbering along on their way to Oovent Garden, and nothing else. I cross Tottenham Court road, and meet only a belated wanderer in khaki.

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