Local Rules &.... Enemy Activity?

Each club is allowed to adopt certain local rules to govern play at their specific facility.  The USGA and R&A spell out how many of them should or could be writen.  Listening to the radio the other evening I heard of an instance wherethe rules will be adopted should play be "interupted by enemy activity."

1 - Players are asked to collect the bomb and shrapnel splinters to
prevent their causing damage to the mowing machines.

2- In competition, during gunfire or while bombs are falling, players may
take shelter without penalty for ceasing play.

3 - The positions of known delayed-actions bombs are marked by red flags
at a reasonable by not guaranteed safe distance therefrom.

4 - Shrapnel and/or bomb splinters on the fairways or in bunkers within a
club's length of a ball may be moved without penalty, and no penalty shall
be incurred if a ball is thereby caused to be moved accidentally.

5 - A ball moved by enemy action may be replaced, or if lost or destroyed,
a ball may be dropped without penalty, not nearer the hole.

6 - A ball lying in a crater may be lifted and dropped not nearer the
hole, preserving the line to the hole, without penalty.

7 - A player whose stroke is affected by the simultaneous explosion of a
bomb may play another ball under penalty of one stroke.

These rules were put in play during the Battle of Britain in 1940 early in the Second World War at the St.
Mellon's Golf and Country Club, located in Monmouthshire, England.  The enemy activity was the bombing of London and the surrounding areas by the Nazis.  The club rules were writen by B. L. Edsell, the club secretary.

Brings a whole need meaning to the phrase, "keep your head down'!
Your friend in golf,
John Grothe, PGA
john.grothe@gmail.com