CHRISTMAS IN BRITAIN

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 80, 28 December 1928, Page 8

CHRISTMAS IN BRITAIN

GREAT MIGRATION FROM TOWNS

RECORD NUMBER GO TO PARIS (United Press Association.— By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Australian Press Association. (Rec. December 27, 11 p.m.) London, December 27. Although Britain has been without newspapers for two clays, the news is easily summarised. People everywhere In the city and the tiniest hamlet also were reassured of the King’s condition through wireless. If any new phase of Christmas is noticeable, it is probably the increase in the number who spent the festival in the country, at the seaside, or on the Continent, whole families and groups of friends migrating from the towns. A record number went to Paris and elsewhere. The famous Devon and Cornish expresses were triplicated. Resorts nearer London were booked up months-ago. While the Home Christmas is never likely to disappear, the increasing tendency to abandon it is attributed to the smaller homes, labour difficulties, and combined activities of railways in the face of road competition. Another feature is that there are fewer patrons at expensive London hotel celebrations.