LONDON ILLUMINATED.
FLOODLIGHTING SYSTEM.
VAST CROWDS IN STREETS.
UNKNOWN BEAUTY REVEALED.
GREAT EUILDINGS OUTLINED.
By Telegraph—Pres3 Association—Copyright (Received September Q, 8.35 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 1. There were amazing scenes in London to-night, when to the astonishment of the authorities hundreds of thousand:! of people crowded the City and West End streets, to witness the floodlighting of soino of the principal buildings, in celebration of tho meeting of tho International Illumination Congress. •
The crowds in the streets were the densest since the armistice. They foregathered at St. Paul's Cathedral to see Wren's donio outlined in silvery lights. Elsewhere .searchlights played on towers and pinnacles of such buildings as Buckingham Palace, the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, and Westminster Cathedral, revealing lovely, unsuspected beauties.
There were equally novel scenes On the Thames, where fire-floats threw up great jets of water, on which many-coloured beams played.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20968, 3 September 1931, Page 9
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