LIGHTS OUT
GREAT CARE IN BRITAIN. The danger of showing a light in Britain, even in a country district, is referred to in a letter received in Dunedin from relatives in the Old Country. An extract states: “We get the ‘Jerries' over here frequently, but they do not often drop bombs, as we have been evacuated to the country. In any case, we have a lovely shelter and the children and I sleep there There is an electric heater and a fan for ventilation, and it is as dry as a bone. It is lovely to get out of a town and to he able to sleep in real peace. We never bother here even when they are droning overhead for two or three minutes, because we know that they are taking their beastly loads to poor Liverpool or Manchester. They, however, dropped a land mine near here one night. It was very dark and I think they had seen some one’s light showing carelessly. People have been more careful since they saw the crater. It gave a farmer 12 days’ work filling up the hole.”
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 62, Issue 4427, 19 May 1941, Page 5
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186LIGHTS OUT Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 62, Issue 4427, 19 May 1941, Page 5
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