RUNAWAY R.A.F. BLIMP
ELECTRIC WIRES FOULED VILLAGES IN DARKNESS (Reed. July li, 9 a.m.) LONDON, July 4. Thirty villages were plunged i-nlto darkness when the mooring wire of a runaway Royal Air Force observation balloon, after drifting 200 miles from, Ramsey, Huntingdonshire, fouled electricity cables- in Yorkshire. The balloon was last seen over the North Sea.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19982, 6 July 1939, Page 5
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