London, Mar. 25.
On the first Easter Monday of the war, huge crowds of holidaymakers throughout Britain flocked to the seaside by train, hikers thronged the countryside, and cyclists filled the roads.
Phere were the usual bank holiday crowds in London "seeing the sights," the only difference being sandbags and steel-helmeted policemen. The petrol ration, however, stopped many families who normally go holidaymaking on the roads, Trafic was only a third of the normal quantity, the London-Brighton road carrying the bulk of cars at the rate of 1400 an hour—Reuter.
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