CHANNEL GALE
SMALL VESSELS DRIVEN ASHORE TREE FALLS ON OMNIBUS IN LONDON. THREE PASSENGERS FATALLY INJURED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.13 a.m.) RUGBY, October 4. A strong gale and heavy seas prevented the Mercury from starting yesterday on her projected non-stop flight to Cape Town and, with the Maia, she remains at Dundee pending favourable weather. The full ‘severity of the gale was felt in the English Channel. Some small vessels were driven ashore. Lifeboats effected several rescues. In London a tree was uprooted and fell across an omnibus. Three passengers were fatally injured and eight were injured.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 October 1938, Page 8
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100CHANNEL GALE Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 October 1938, Page 8
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