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C.E. Warren & Co. Ltd. ad for A.R.P. black out equipment

C.E. Warren & Co. Ltd. ad for A.R.P. black out equipment
Submitted by jill
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Jill
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C.E. Warren & Co. Ltd
Leslie Warren
A.R.P.

This C.E. Warren & Co. Ltd advert for black out materials and A.R.P. equipment is from the SCMP 10 April, 1940. Leslie Warren, the company manager and member of the HKVD Signals Corps must have agreed for his company to be an outlet for these. The advert refers to "the next black out". When did the black out drills start and how were they imposed?

Jill 

Date picture taken (may be approximate): 
Wednesday, April 10, 1940
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1940s Hong Kong
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Submitted by moddsey on Thu, 2015-02-05 22:17.

Just gleaning from the newspapers, the first blackour drill commenced on 21 March 1937. Thereafter, a series of blackout drills and air raid warnings were carried out up until 1941.

Submitted by jill on Fri, 2015-02-06 01:38.

Thanks for following this up, moddsey. So the blackout drills continued for more than four years. I suppose the notifications to the public were first published in the newspapers and then reinforced by radio.