THE STORM PASSES

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 103, 29 October 1945, Page 7

THE STORM PASSES

Rec. 9 a.m. LONDON, October 28

The gale has blown itself out in southern England, and ships are again passing up and down the Channel. The Air Ministry states that the wind is still likely to reach gale force in some places/but has cancelled all gale warnings in the British Isles except in the Shannon area and Northern Ireland.

The Queen Mary docked at Southampton after riding out the gale off the Isle of Wight for 50 hours.

At Folkestone, where, the wind blew at 80 miles an hour for hours. 100 men are engaged in piling concrete into breaches in the promenade, but the sea threatens further ravages.

Reports of mines exploding continue to come in from coastal areas from Beal to the Shetlands.

Heavy flooding is reported from Wales and Ireland.

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added that the Generalissimo had never received him with greater frendliness or hospitality.

Stalin is expected to make his first speech since the end of the war on November 7, the anniversary of the 1917 Revolution; when he will probably deal with a number of the problems facing Russia, particularly foreign policy. Diplomatic circles in Moscow predict the speech will have a vital bearing on the post-war world. All the Soviet newspapers 'displayed Mr. Harriman's interview with. Stalin at Sochi on the front page. This is the first intimation to the Russian people of Stalin's whereabouts since the Generalissimo began his holiday.