BOXING DAY SUNSHINE AND STORMS
Keceived Fridav, 7 p.m. LOXDOX, Dec. 27. ' Blue skios and springliko snnshine sent Boxing Day crowds lo seaside re sorts and more tinui a million to football jnatches in the Midlands aml Sout liern Kngland. The northwest had hail, a gale and thunderstornis and one niirrow lndl of bad weather rapiillv c russell east ward from Wnles but London had the sunniest Boxing Dav for 17 years. There were recoril attemlanees at football and at the National Hunt meeting at Windsor. Londoners who crowded tlie railways in a big uxodus 011 Christmas Eve, showed 110 signs of letuniing last night. The railways reported all quiet. One of tlie features of this Christmas was the Government 's permitting privute faniilies to entertain Gerinan prisonei'S of war. Keports froni manv parts of the eountry showed tliat hundreds of prisoners, 111 groups of two and three, aecepted invitations. Tlie Aldershot Football Cluli had 300 as visitors to Christmas Day inatches.
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Chronicle (Levin), 28 December 1946, Page 5
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162BOXING DAY SUNSHINE AND STORMS Chronicle (Levin), 28 December 1946, Page 5
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