A GERMAN BARQUE'S VOYAGE.

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 146, 21 June 1924, Page 24

A GERMAN BARQUE'S VOYAGE.

A most adventurous voyage befel the trew of'the German barque Toni, -which, imved at Sydney recently from GothenJurg with a cargo of timber, after hav.ug been 122 days at sea. How the loni, without sails, ran at eight knots m hour before a westerly gale, and iow the two boats were lost overboard ;i the North Atlantic, is told by the hief officer in a brief account of the tirring voyage from the Swedish port. When we were near the Shetland Ismds," he said, " we ran into a terrific westerly gale. It was bitterly cold, and as ship heeled over to an angle of 50 ■ egrees. ■ The starboard rail was well ndor the water when high waves rolld by, and at times they, swirled across he decks. Two, starboard boats, alhough high above the deck, were torn om their chocks and washed overoard. Wo could see them drifting ,way • from the ship, but' could do nohing to save them. Hatches were.torn ff and water found its way into the old, but as we were fully laden witb imber, which rendered the barque uoyant, that was not serious. I was Jst about to enter the charthouse by i.c door on the starboard side when lie big sea struck us. It lifted ' the oor off its hinges, and I was flung into ihe room with the door, still holding la handle of the door. Water poured town the companion way to the saloon. )n the main deck forward the sailors vere experiencing a rough time. The loor of the deckhouse, which serves as he forecastle, was burst in by a sea and :he room flooded. Happily the blow moderated. When we got south of Urica and into the ' roaring forties,' ye were running east under one topsail. A.terrifio sqnall tore the topsail co ribbons. The fury of the gale was lot exhausted, and- under bare poles, with only tatters of canvas flying from he yard, wo raced before tho wind at eight knots. We were then in tho vicinity of Amsterdam Island."

In one day a ton of turkeys was carried from London to Cologne by air, it beingcheaper to import them there by this expensive tiaaiport thaa to buy tiism lo-