GALES AND RAIN SPOIL BRITAIN’S GUY FAWKES NIGHT
LONDON, Nov. 6 (Rec. 6 pm).— Gales and heavy rain caused most of Britain’s Guy Fawkes celebrations to go off with a damp squib-like “phut.” Most parents made the children accelerate their fireworks programme so they could get back indoors to their fires.
Oxford had the roughest celebration for many years with students trying to overturn cars and motor coaches and throwing buckets of water over crowds. The police took a number of names.
Gale warnings were issued yesterday for all areas in the British Isles. A gale prevented the liner Queen Mary from dry-docking at Southampton for annual overhaul.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 7 November 1949, Page 5
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