INSPECT YOUR BLINDS – Aug 12, 1916 – An appeal to readers

                                     I must earnestly appeal to readers to lose no time in making their windows absolutely opaque to all inside light. 

                            I am afraid the public do not yet realise how near the borough has been to calamity or there would no exhibitions or

                            deplorable carelessness such as may be seen any night.  Delinquents who deliberately put on lights before drawing

                            blinds deserve any penalties imposed on them ;  but there are other householders who infringe the Lighting Order

                            while being unaware of their offence.   The fact that windows are fitted with thick blinds does not necessarily imply

                            that no light is being emitted.  Instances abound where light streams out of the sides of the blinds, casting broad

                            shafts across the street and at certain angles allowing the brilliant naked light to be seen.  The matter is too serious

                            to be trifled with.  The community for whose benefit the restrictions are made has a light to demand that they shall

                            be rigorously enforced, and there will be some emphatic expressions of discontent this winter is the Bench do not

                            back up the police to better purpose in their attempts to preserve life and property from the attacks of the aerial

                            assassins.  We had three air raid warnings in Northampton last week and another in the early hours of Tuesday

                            morning despite the bright harvest moon.