MAILS HELD UP
EMPIRE FLYING BOATS WEATHERBOUND THAW IN LONDON AFTER SEVERE COLD LONDON, Dec. 22. London experienced a thaw to-day after the severe cold of the last few days, and snow has now disappeared from the streets, but further north snow was still falling to-day and many villages on the Lincolnshire wolds and in Yorkshire are isolated. Many roads are impassable and transport in south-east .Essex experienced difficulty as a result of very dense fog. Visibility in the Thames estuary L so reduced as serious to embarrass shipping. Three Imperial Airways Empire flying-boats with nine tons of Christmas mail are weather-bound in Southampton. Frozen Ports of Call. Imperial Airways announced that the severity of the weather in Western Europe and the Mediterranean and the frozen ports of call are interrupting Empire mails. The amount of Christmas mails is a record, being 400 per cent, above normal and 5 per cent, above last years. For South Africa and Australia 147 tons and 8,000,000 letters were despatched in one month from England.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 82, Issue 305, 24 December 1938, Page 7
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171MAILS HELD UP Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 82, Issue 305, 24 December 1938, Page 7
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