SIR AUSTEN SAFE
ORCOMA CLEARS STORM British Official Wireless. (Bcceived 17th September, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, 15th September. Details of the damage done in British West Indies by the tornado which has swept tho Caribbean Sea are not yet available. Porto Rico, which is an American dependency, has suffered considerably and it is feared that the neighbouring Leeward Islands have fared similarly. . Tho reported course or. the hurricane is vest-north-westwards, and its rate of progress would seem .to bring at in I contact with the Orcoma, in which Sir Auston Chamberlain, British Joreigii Secretary, and his family are passengers Tho vessel, which left Bermuda on Wednesday afternoon, is duo to arrive in Havana on Sunday morning. Officials of the company which owns the Orcoma believe, however, that the ship has altered its course to avoid tho hummessage, confirm this _ belief. The Orcoma is expected to arrive at Havana on 16th September.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 57, 17 September 1928, Page 9
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