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...worst fog England has seen for years, blanketing not only London but an area of 8,000 square miles. (Total area of England 50,327 sq. mi.; Scotland 30,405; Wales 8,016.) Two steps off the curb pedestrians were completely lost. Conductors carrying great sizzling gasoline flares stalked like old-time linkboys ahead of their buses. Many a scarlet omnibus caught fire from the heat of repeatedly jammed brakes. A pair of wild ducks, lost and dizzy, dropped quacking disconsolately in the middle of the Strand. Rail traffic was paralyzed. A Wimbledon train sat on a siding for hours...
Bound from Brussels to London with eight passengers, mostly Britons going home for the holidays, the Imperial Airways transport Apollo drilled through a milky fog over western Belgium. As she neared the coast, between Bruges and Ostend. Apollo groped lower and lower. CRASH! She hit the mast of a wireless station, snapped it off, flopped to earth. FLASH! Flames shot high. Said one of the crew of the wireless station, afterward: "There was not a chance for the passengers or the two pilots. There was not a sound or a cry from the cabin...
Yachtsman Harold Stirling Vanderbilt dashed up from his Florida winter home to Manhattan one day last week, turned around the next and dashed back. Before he left, however, he cleared away the fog of rumor surrounding the defense of the America's Cup against the challenge of the Royal Yacht Squadron...
...nights before Christmas the overcrowded Paris-to-Nancy express stopped on a red signal in a pea-soup fog 15 mi. east of Paris. At 8:15 the Paris-to-Strasbourg express hurtled at 50 m p h into it from behind, knifed the baggage car in two, plowed through four jammed passenger cars...
From the resulting shambles the police ordered rescuers to "take only the ones that are nearly whole." Beside the track they laid out 180 corpses. In an ice-crusted field, by the fog-laden light of fires and lanterns, they laid out nearly 400 injured. Among the latter were two members of the French Chamber of Deputies. Soon on the narrow dirt road into the little town of Lagny, wound a file of taxis, ambulances and delivery trucks such as had not been seen since the battle of the Marne, 19 years ago and ten miles away...