DEATH-FOG LIFTS

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 64, 9 December 1930, Page 11

DEATH-FOG LIFTS

British Shipping Freed DEATHS IN BELGIUM Mystery as to Cause By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright (Rec. December 8, 8 p.m.) Loudon, December 7. The fog has lifted throughout Britain, permitting the clearance of fog-bound shipping in the Thames Estuary. The liners affected included the lonic, bound for New Zealand, and the Orvieto, which only reached Til bury to-day instead of Thursday. The Ranpura from Bombay, the City of Calcutta, and the Andalusia also berthed at Tilbury. The Ormonde left to-day insteady of yesterday. Yesterday, although the fog which enveloped London and South-Eastern England persisted, it was less dense, and in the lower reaches of the Thames visibility improved to about 200 yards in the morning, permitting of the cautious movement of shipping. In the Channel conditions improved about midnight. A message from Brussels states that dwellers in the Meuse Valley scout the official explanation, and are convinced that The fog was charged with noxious gas. The origin has not been ascertained. Three deaths at Jemeppe on Saturday night brought the unofficial total to 69. though the official number Is 63. The fog has now vanished.