WET BANK HOLIDAY.
GALES AND THUNDERSTORMS IN ENGLAND. ACCIDENTS CAUSE HEAVY DEATH ROLL. COCKNEY SPIRIT UNQUENCHED. United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. (Received Tuesday, 7.55 p.m.) LONDON, August 5. The wettest Bank Holiday for ten years drove holiday-makers 1 indoors. Gales and thunderstorms made bathing and boating almost impossible. The King’s yacht Britannia withdrew from the day’s racing. There were only two other competitors, of whom one finished. Scores of visitors arrived at seaside resorts carrying coats which were soaked before their departure. A majority of the sports were cancelled. Serious accidents, including a death roll of 24, marred the holiday. Two trains from Blackpool collided, resulting in a hundred hospital cases, but the Hampstead Heath-ers kept up the traditional Cockney jollifications.
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Wairarapa Age, 6 August 1930, Page 5
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122WET BANK HOLIDAY. Wairarapa Age, 6 August 1930, Page 5
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