PLANE BUFFETED

Southland Times, Issue 22491, 28 January 1935, Page 7

PLANE BUFFETED

LUGGAGE COMPARTMENT RIPPED OPEN.

QUANTITY OF GOLD LOST.

(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 11.45 pm.) London, January 27. A cross-channel plane was severely buffeted and when it landed at Essex it was found that the gale had ripped open the luggage compartment and the contents, including £6OOO worth of gold from Paris had fallen out.

The Duchess of Richmond, in which the Duke and Duchess of Kent are voyaging, experienced an 80-mile gale and mountainous seas and anchored at Cherbourg for the night. Snow brought down high tension wires, plunging several districts into darkness. All communications were interrupted in Yorkshire and Durham where there were three feet snowdrifts and several deaths from exposure. London is shivering in Arctic winds and snow showers. Similar bitter weather is being experienced in France, Italy and Spain. Over half a million witnessed the cup ties, played in a gale and on many snow covered fields which defeated some of the fancied teams. Two passengers in the Hillman aeroplane lost their luggage. The. gold which was stored near the tail of the machine, consisted of bars in two wooden boxes. It is considered most likely they were lost in the channel, but the police of Sussex and Kent are searching. The snowfall dislocated London’s theatreland late to-night and crowds had a long wait for conveyances. The roads were treacherous.