FREAK STORM
LIGHTNING AND HAIL
CHAPMAN'S CLOSE CALL
(liocoived September 3, 1 p.m.) ' LONDON, September 2. The cricketer A. P, F. Chapman had a narrow escape from death in a froak storm at Folkestone. ,He was golfing near a furze bush when a flash, of lightning knocked him down and completely burned rip' the b.ush. The marquee at Pollcestono whero the Australians should have playod collapsed "under the weight of hailstones. Heavy rain marrod the inaugural demonstration of tho Trades Union Cen-r tenary at Maumbury King, a Boman amphitheatre near Dorchester, today.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 55, 3 September 1934, Page 9
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92FREAK STORM Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 55, 3 September 1934, Page 9
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