The light control for the first two days was precautionary only but on July 14 orders were issued stating that the control had become emergency. The difference was slight except that where for the first two nights the trams were rolling along carefully without lights, under the emergency control they were stopped altogether as the authorities learned from their trips over the city in planes what London learned in the early years of the war when Zeppelins made their attacks, which is that the flashes given off from the tram cables above is a certain guide for marauding planes or airships.
Light control the first night was well observed, according to Lieut,- Gen. Suyama, chief of the Dairen-
Port Arthur defence headquarters, who travelled over most of the city on the lookout for stray flashes of light which might give away the situation and thereafter it improved every night. This was, however, not without certain inconveniences to householders whose windows had to be shut, always with the black covering, with the thermometer steadily piring towards the century mark.
In addition it is no time of prosperity for cinemas, theatres, cabarets bars and shops attendance at which went down to one-tenth of the usual, Shops were not prohibited from doing business, only if business is done it has to be carried out so that n> gleam of light is visible outdoors.
Residents of Dairen need be in no pother as to what is actually required of them. The English language new:
Paper here has given lengthy lists of instructions for both precautionary and emergency control, while leaflets are distributed in English to all foreigners. There are also squads of young men patrolling the streets like the special constables in London under D.O.R.A, who shout at intervals when aircraft are approaching, when there is danger of poison gas and when the alarms are over, These and the police arrive in all houses some short time before light control starts to see that everything is as it should be. The idea is if possible to have one room, more or less central, which is thoroughly shut in and which may be lighted. Other rooms are to be lightless or so closed, (closed, black-covered windows) that no light can make its way outside. With a little translation all is arranged satisfactorily and those who prefer air in the sticky heat to light can have it—but no mistakes are allowed,
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