Show CAMERA MEN IN DANGER amateur photographers at the seaside or even in london and other big cities must be more careful than ever bow they take snapshots during wartime tor a thoughtless use of their cameras may easily cause them to and themselves in prison for a few days to say the least pearson s weekly remarks in the early days of the war for instance a perfectly innocent hull ship chandler on a boll day in london with his wife was arrested by the police for taking photographs of battersea bridge after being detained the best part of the day during which inquiries were made tho authorities were satisfied that he was merely a harmless but nevertheless they warned him to keep bis camera out of use until the war Is over there are probably many thousands of ama beur photographers who wishing to snap scenes in the neighborhood of barracks or other mill tary or naval places find themselves arrested as it they were spies it they must take photographs in these war days let them resort to the and country lanes as far from military scenes as they can get at the outset of the war the military author ties issued an order that no aeroplanes aero planes or airships must be photographed at a distance of less than forty yards or of an air station at all without the permission of the authorities germany has always been the most dangerous country for the amateur photographer and more than one tourist has found himself roughly ban died by the german police for innocently taking photographs A special bill was passed a few years ago threatening tourists falth a fine of 60 or two months imprisonment who took photographs without permission the french officials in the towns on the fran co german frontier have always objected to anyone taking snapshots and indeed many a tourist has had his camera temporarily confiscated to find afterward that his plates have all been rendered useless italy not only bars people taking photographs near fortifications but forbids the use of a camera in most of the picture galleries and mu abums |