MAROONED GUESTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 February 1940, Page 5

MAROONED GUESTS

PLIGHT OF TRAVELLERS IN ENGLAND

ISOLATED FOR FOUR DAYS IN VILLAGE.

TRAFFIC CHAOS CONTINUES.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.0 a.m.) LONDON, January 31. “We are absolutely starving and unable to get supplies from the village-. There are 400 people sleeping all over the building. Some women and children are ill and unable to leave their beds.” This message was received in London by telephone from, the proprietress of a lonely hotel in the Moorland \ illage of Crawford, in Lancashire, shortly before a relief train got through. The hungry, marooned guests, most of whom were bus and train passengers, were taken to the station and departed for Glasgow after four days complete isolation. Ten passengers, suffering from bad chills, remained behind. Arrangements are being made to drop food by plane for the remainder of the beleaguered community. Today marked the fourth day of the great weather hold-up of British road and rail traffic. Thus far lliere lias been no marked improvement in the situation anywhere. Railwaymen are working throughout the night, and all day under most rigorous conditions in an endeavour to make the lines fit for traffic and bring relief to isolated country centres.