DIMMING-OUT REGULATIONS
ALONG U.S. ATLANTIC COAST TO STOP SILHOUETTE OF SHIPPING | (Rec. 9.40 a.m.) New- York, April 28. j Major-General Phillipson. commander !of the second corps area, has ordered i the immediate dimming of lights j throughout a fifteen mile-wide belt I along the coast from New York to New | Jersey and Delaware, including the obscuring of all lights above the 15th (storey in New York city buildings. The 1 regulation is designed to protect shiping from being silhouetted against the coastal glc.re which is visible thirty miles out to sea. It is the first Army order since the entire Atlantic seaboard was designated as an eastern military area. Major-General Phillipson gave warning that complete blackouts would be instituted for communities failing to comply with the dimming-out regulation. A similar regulation is being put into effect along the entire coastline from Maine to Florida.—P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 29 April 1942, Page 5
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