TERRIFIC GALE
IN ENGLISH CHANNEL
(United Press Association.—By Electric
Telegraph—Copyright].
LONDON, September 20,
Furious gales all day long made the English Channel impasssable except for the strongest and largest steamers. At least a dozen big steamers, including the Templemead and the Cahtnegs, were sending out signals of distress, .besides other vessels in the Atlantic,; A French schooner was swept on the rocks. . . <i S'on
~,Tho liner, „Rotorua, from New Zealand,, arrived at , Southampton eight hours, late.' • ’ :rd
• A. tug put out to assist the Italian Ateamer Tuscania..' The tug, however, returned leaking, with the bridge washed away, and her flag at halt mast for ft sailor who was swept overboard.
At Folkstone crowds watched a multi-engined air liner'battling against an eighty-three mile gale. It was brought almost to a standstill in midnir. .
The sea at Portland washed nvei the retaining wall, nnd swept into the town, breaking into a cinema and wetting the audience.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 September 1930, Page 5
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