A SEVERE GALE
THREE DEATHS IN LONDON
(British Official Wireless.) (Received October 5, 2 p.m.) RUGBY, October 4. A strong gale and heavy seas prevented the Mercury, the upper half of the Mayo composite aircraft, from starting yesterday on the projected non-stop flight to Cape Town, and with the Maia it remains at Dundee pend-j ing favourable weather.
The full severity of the gale was felt in the English Channel and passenger steamers were heavily buffeted.
The steamer Princess Josephine Charlotte from Ostend, with 83 passengers, and the Shepperton ferry, with a cargo from Dunkirk, were unable to make Dover Harbour and recrossed the Channel to anchor under the lee of the French coast off Dunkirk.
Small vessels were driven ashore and lifeboats effected several rescues. The gale caused considerable damage on lapd, gusts of over 80 miles an hour being registered. In London a tree was uprooted and fell across an omnibus. Three passengers were fatally injured and eight injured. . Nearly 2000 telephone lines in the JLondon area are reported to be down.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 83, 5 October 1938, Page 14
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174A SEVERE GALE Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 83, 5 October 1938, Page 14
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