England is no longer one of the best sign-posted countries in the world. The two leading automobile associations have taken down their 140,000 road-signs; and innumerable finger-posts, many put up originally in coaching days, have disappeared. Even the milestones have been uprooted, all except one. The solitary exception is on the London-Folkestone Road, and it reads: "Berlin 731 Miles."
Since the outbreak of war it has been a common experience of cyclists and walkers who have asked villagers the way to receive the reply: "I don't know. I've just been evacuate ed" Now, when they ask a similar question, they may expect to be greeted with suspicion, if not hostility, so alive is the English countryside to the danger of parachutists. I foresee a boom in maps.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.