GALES AND STORMS

Evening Star, Issue 20033, 26 November 1928, Page 9

GALES AND STORMS

ROUGH WEATHER IH ENGLAND SEVERAL PEOPLE KILLED GALLANT RESCUES BY LIFEBOATS. {British Official Wireless.) Press Association--By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, November 34* (Received November 26, at 11.80 a.m.) High winds continue over England to-day following yesterday’s gale, m which heavy rainstorms, by wind, which at times reached eightyeight miles an hour at Liverpool and many other places Eight people were killed on land by falling trees and chimneys. Most of the Channel services were cancelled, but were running as usual to-day, except that _ the Boulogne traffic is diverted to Calais. Three seaplanes moored at Portsmouth were sunk by heavy seas, but two are in comparatively shallow water , although the third was smashed against the breakwater. The Ramsgate motor lifeboat made two journeys and rescued men from the Deal herring boats, and the Bombridge (Isle of Wight) lifeboat went to the aid of the Soviet tanker Nefte Syndicat, which issued distress calls off St. Catherine’s Point. Her steering gear had been smashed, and she asked for two tugs. The departure from Southampton oi the Edinburgh Castle for the Cape and the Tusiania for New York was delayed ■some hours, and the Majestic, from New York, was lute iu reaching Liverpool. Among the passengers on the Edinburgh Castle were the Earl of Atlilono and his wife, Princess Alice, together with their daughter, Lady May Cambridge. The earl is returning to South Africa to resume his duties as Governor-General. GALE CONTINUES LIFEBOATS CALLED OUT. (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph-Copyright, RUGBY, November 25. (Received November 26, at 11.30 a.m.) The gale again raged over England to-day, and wireless messages report violent seas to the west and in the North Sea and the English Channel. Lifeboats have been called out in several places, and have effected gallant rescues. Twenty-three lives were saved and one life was lost when the New Brighton lifeboat set out to assist the French steamer Emile Delmas (2,000 tons) yesterday. After fighting through tremendous seas for fifteen miles the lifeboat reached the vessel, whose anchor cables had broken. The crow jumped for it, and were pulled safely aboard, although this took over an hour; then a huge wave washed two of the crow and the chief engineer of the French steamer overboard, the last named stepping through his lifebuoy and drowning. Captain Conssin, of the Emile Dolmas, paid a warm tribute to the bravery of the lifeboat’s crew. ' The arrivals and departures of liners have been delayed. Sir Austen Chamberlain and party were due to arrive in London from Canada to-day, but owing to the weather the Regina, on which they travelled, was late in docking at Liverpool, having to await her turn on the land extension. Minor damage was done by the gale. Weather forecasts anticipate a continuance of the rough conditions. VESSELS IN DISTRESS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON,, November 25. (Received November 26, at 12.35 p.m.) During tho gales several fatalities occurred in various parts of the country from falling trees and tiles, and the Channel' and Irish Sea services were suspended. The German cadet training barque Pomraeru, off Guernsey, sent out distress signals, and another German ship rescued forty cadets. The British mine-layer Adventure is rescuing the remaining forty.

There were mountainous seas in the Ray of Biscay, where a largo French liner is. in distress.—Australian Press Association.