MANY FATALITIES

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXV, Issue 14172, 24 September 1946, Page 3

MANY FATALITIES

GALE SWEEPS CHANNEL ' ( -v.v, i London, Sept. 22. to the great gale which swept the Hand and the south of England on ?% before moving D n to northera Germany the death roll numberand at least 52 persons were injured. \ ftree ships .were sunk and four Wren ashore. v ' ' J'armers estimate that millions of |*% worth of damage wa s done ■ tte harvest fields. Pour th 'ousand London telephones tEr « Put out of order and telephone Jnfca to the Continent were werrupted. I A rei ? ort fr °m Frankfurt says at P nine people were killed when Jomh-damaged buildings col™:Under the, buffeting of the *tt,wlnds.' ; if farmers, who are working Jb? ni?h * to save the ha rvest e of a ?most continuous rain, (|\^ be^Se German prisoners ai i refuse t 0 work on Sunda y s «jQ- : because they travel like nts thei ;^ bs ' says tlie Even " %b- farmhands, must to cars> taxis