The Archive · 1939

London in Wartime

By O. M. Green

"Even darkness which may be felt." London by night now makes one understand the feelings of the Egyptians. You cannot conceive what it is like to make your way along the most familiar street in the nightly black out. You feel for the kerb, pushing your feet like a blind man. You grope for walls, you see nobody, but voices are heard plaintively asking the way. To cross the road is a real terror as you can scarcely see the buses till they are on you and they cannot see you at all. Accidents are frequent.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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