THAW IN LONDON
MORE SNOW IN NORTH
AIR SERVICES DISRUPTED
(British Official Wireless.)
(Received December 23, 12.10 p.m.) RUGBY, December 22.
London experienced a thaw this afternoon after the severe cold of the last few days, and the snow has now disappeared from the streets, but further north snow was still falling today and many villages on the Lincolnshire Wolds and in Yorkshire were completely isolated. Many roads are impassable.
Transport in sourth-east Essex experienced difficulty as a result of a very dense fog. , Visibility in the Thames Estuary was so reduced as seriously to embarrass shipping. Three Imperial Airways Empire flying-boats with nine tons of Christmas mail are weather bound at Southampton.
Nine deaths in Britain today were attributed to the cold.
(Received December 23, 9.45 a.m.)
LONDON, December 22. Imperial Airways announce that the severity of the weather in Western Europe and the Mediterranean has frozen ports of call, interrupting the Empire mail services.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 151, 23 December 1938, Page 9
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