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f: ' * ENGLAND UNDER FOG
* :■ ! SHIPPING HELD UP
(Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) LONDON, Dec. 22. Dense fog impeded Christmas shopping in London ana the provincial towns, bringing to standstill hundreds of lorries with Christmas goods on ’the main roads and paralysing communications throughout the country, A lorry collided with a,n omnibus near Doncaster and caught fire, and the driver was burned to death.
A woman walking to Leicester stumbled over att” obstacle which turned out to be a dead man, apparently the victim of a stroke. *
An air force plane lost its bearings and was forced to land on the Isle of Sheppey, where it overturned, but the occupants were unhurt. j The Seapple stranded on a mudbank in the Medway. Boats took off the pilot and two passengers. ; A ferry collided with a- trawler in the Tyne, both being damaged. Shipping is almost-"stationary in the Thames, Tyne and Humber.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18588, 24 December 1934, Page 5
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