STORM IN BRITAIN

Hokitika Guardian, 10 December 1929, Page 5

STORM IN BRITAIN

STORM CONTINUES. RESCUE OPERATIONS. (British Official Wireless). (Received this day at 10 a.m..» RUGBY, Dec. 9. The week-end weather exceeded in violence, any experienced in England since accurate wind speed records have been kept. The lift'll day oi the storm is now taking place and tlie wind reached gale force m gusts, while exceptionally heavy seas are still running round the coasts. Cross Channel services were resumed tins morning despite high wind and seas.

Over 30 large steamers, most of them with two anchors down, have been sheltering off Deal, and as already reported, numerous casualties have occurred to shipping. Some of the older members of lifeboat crews, although exhausted, by their ordeals, have rolused to consider tlie suggestion that volunteers, plenty of whom were available, should take their places in the lifeboats. They were responsible for saving numerous lives during tlie week-end. The British Royal Mail liner “Arlang,” bound for Brazil, rescued the crew of the 5,000 ton Italian steamer Casmona in the Bay of Biscay and the German steamship Hnusa took off the Casmona’s captain. The Arlang lost a boat during rescue operations, but no casualties occurred. The Casmona was abandoned in a sinking condition.