THUNDERSTORMS IN ENGLAND.
PRIME MINISTER'S NARROW ESCAPE. (BRITISH OmCIAI. WIRELESS.) RUGBY, August 31. The London heat wave reached its climax at midnight on Saturday, when an electrical storm broke over the capital and continued for about thro© hours. The storm was heralded by vivid lightning, unaccompanied by. thunder. Then came the thunder, and it increased in intensity. People returning from the theatres were caught in the storm. Thunderstorms occurred in other parts of England and Scotland. Yesterday the aeroplane in which the Prime Minister (Mr Ramsay Mac Donald) was flying from Hendon to Lossiemouth ran into the storm north of Gatterick Aerodrome, Yorkshire. For a long period last night nothing was known of hia whereabouts because both Gatterick and Lossiemouth were out of telephonic communication with London. Later it was learned that the aeroplane had turned back and landed safely at Gatterick, whenoe Mr Mac Donald continued his journey by train. Mr Mac Donald had a narrow escape when the house at which he was staying at Gatterick Camp was struck by lightning in Friday's storm, and all the electrical wires fused.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20022, 2 September 1930, Page 11
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