WILD WEATHER.
HEAVY GALES AND RAM:. : A BATTLESHIP ADRIFT. "'"' IIA.NY DISTRICTS SUEME3GED.. . ALARM IN PARIS. r ; ■ - -* By Calle. — Press Association. — Copyright. '~'r (Received March 17, 11 a.m.j v LONDON, March 16. - £ Violent gales continue along thsj British coasts. • \- * The Belgian steamer, Bucharest is ia-, distress, "at Peterhead, and lifeboa/ts. " '"" hive been launched and rockets got. \- • rocdy. *, ~ • .The obsolete battleship Revenge is^ ;: adrift at Ryde, endangering shipping. <" -Y % ' The wildest weather is raging; in the* V ' Channel, and the Newhaven-Dieppe ser-- "*V" vice has been suspended. ' *.~< -•* Heavy rains have Hooded the Thames; • ; r J Valley, and meny districts elsewhere- '■ "'» arc submerged. . • . \ , ~*J Stormy conditions also prevail on the* "'**{ Continent, and the Rhine Valley is-. -* ii flooded. ' The Seine is rising, and the people of* Paris are alarmed. Many sea and land telegraph Jinest are interrupted. ' * •-' Later. - - . - Tugs have now secured the battleship- K '_..; Revenge, which is not damaged. - . * •' \7
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 34, 17 March 1914, Page 7 (Supplement)
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148WILD WEATHER. Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 34, 17 March 1914, Page 7 (Supplement)
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