may be said to have been entirely satis= factory even for mighty London. It was prophesied that the gas would run out, that it was impossible to make enough; but like other pessimistic prophesies this hes proved wrong. There has been plenty of gas, as of food and everything else. Thanks to the splendid arrangements made by the police, people were able to wall about on Tuesday evening (all trafic was stopped) and see the illuminations with comparative ease and only occasional crushing. St. Paul's wee a grand sight. The original iden was to illuminate it with rings of gas right up the dome but this was abandoned as being too dangerous, and a system of search lights was adopted, the lights being thrown om to the building from the summits of neighbouring houses, The cryes showed up
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