GALE IN THE CHANNEU
SEA DEFENCES BEOEE^ ]
WAVES WRECK BUNGALOWS
(British Official Wireless.) BUGBY, 11th November. ; The gale in the Channel continue^ with unabated force to-day, and fh^ whole south coast experienced stormy of exceptional severity.
The Armistice service -arranged o^ the parade at Hastings had to be aban* doned and took place in the White Boekf pavilion. The wind reached 70 miles an hou^ in some places. Heavy seas invaded the streets of several coast towns, andj premises were flooded in Portsmouth and Folkestone.
Coast roads are blocked by debris ii< the Isle of Wight, where concrete Be^ defences were broken down, masses o^ masonry being hurled 30 yards. Shod fronts 60 feet back from the sea wer< smashed.
The worst of the storm struck th^ coaßt between. Eastbourne and Folkej stone, where the action of the Channel currents, through recent centuries, haj| piled up many square miles of lan<B between the old Cinque ports of Ey4 and Winchelsea and the sea.
To-day the sea breached the foreshorrf of shingle, and waves 30 feat _ higtq dashed against bungalows, demolishing many. Numerous families are homeless* The Thames at high tide to-day waj again exceptionally high, but it passed without causing damage.
GALE IN THE CHANNEU
Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 117, 13 November 1931, Page 7
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