DRIFTED 200 MILES.
HAVOC BY RUNAWAY BALLOON (Received 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 5. Thirty villages were plunged in darkness -when the mooring-wire of a runaway Royal Air Force observation balloon, after it had drifted 200 miles from Ramsey, Huntingdonshire, fouled electricity cables in Yorkshire. The balloon was last seen over the North Sea.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 157, 6 July 1939, Page 11
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